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Jan 27, 2018
Implantable Bionic Lens could give you lasting, perfect eyesight
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism
Imagine being able to see three times better than 20/20 vision without wearing glasses or contacts — even at age 100 or more — with the help of bionic lenses implanted in your eyes.
Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who invented the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, says patients would have perfect vision and that driving glasses, progressive lenses and contact lenses would become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed.
Jan 27, 2018
How Taking Care of Your Fibroblasts Might Help You Look Younger: an Interview with Dr. Vadim Zorin
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
As we age, our bodily functions begin to deteriorate. To some extent, our bodies can cope with these unwelcome changes, but after age 35, some of them become visible. For us living in a world where youth and physical attractiveness are considered an advantage, this gradual loss of young looks can be painful – or maybe even scary, if we don’t know a way to slow down or reverse it.
It is not that physical attractiveness is a value per se for me, but I often hear people say that someone promoting longevity technologies should set a good example; wrinkles, dull skin and hair, and a bloated figure discredit not only the activist but the movement as a whole.
So, I keep an eye on what is going on in the field of aesthetic medicine – especially when it comes close to and crosses with rejuvenation biotechnologies. Last week, I went to one of the flagship research organizations in Moscow – the Human Stem Cells Institute – to interview Dr. Vadim Zorin, the head of the SPRS-therapy project and the developer of a unique approach to skin rejuvenation.
Jan 27, 2018
The Men Who Want to Live Forever
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Would you like to live forever? Some billionaires, already invincible in every other way, have decided that they also deserve not to die. Today several biotech companies, fueled by Silicon Valley fortunes, are devoted to “life extension” — or as some put it, to solving “the problem of death.”
Some very wealthy people are serious about outsmarting mortality.
Jan 26, 2018
Google’s Calico Labs announces a new discovery: “a non-aging mammal.”
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Google’s ultra-secretive Calico Labs announces a significant discovery – the naked mole rat is the first and only non-aging mammal and shows little signs of aging as it gets older. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
With wrinkly skin and completely bald, the naked mole rat is one of the ugliest creatures around but lives an exceptionally long life for a small mammal. It rarely develops the chronic diseases of aging such as cancer and lives 10 times longer than regular rats.
The First Non-Aging Mammal
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Jan 25, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — In Touch Rugby Magazine — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, DNA, food, health, life extension, neuroscience, science, singularity
Jan 25, 2018
Graphene based glucose-monitoring contact lens comfortable enough to wear
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biotech/medical, materials
A team of researchers with the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea has developed a glucose monitoring contact lens that its makers claim is comfortable enough to wear. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the group describes their contact lens and suggests it could be ready for commercial use within five years.
Diabetes results in unmanageable glucose levels, requiring those who have the disease to monitor and adjust them with insulin or medicine. Monitoring, unfortunately, requires pricking a finger to retrieve a blood sample for testing, which most people do not like. For that reason, scientists seek another way. A new method employs a contact lens. Prior research has shown glucose levels in tears follows that of glucose levels in the blood in many respects. To date, there are no commercially available contact lens products because, as the researchers note, they are made of hard materials that are uncomfortable in the eye. They claim to have overcome that problem by breaking apart the pieces of their sensing device and encapsulating each in a soft polymer and then connecting them together in a flexible mesh.
The polymer is the same type used in conventional contact lenses. The components of the device consist of a graphene-based sensor, a rectifier, LED display and a stretchable antenna. Power for the sensor is still external—it is held in the air a minimum of nine millimeters from the lens. The LED glows during normal conditions and turns off when high levels of glucose are detected. The flexibility of the lens and sensor components also allows for removal of the device in the same way as normal contact lenses—by grabbing and bending.
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Jan 25, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Caring For Aging Parents Podcast — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, cryonics, DNA, genetics, health, life extension
Jan 25, 2018
Top Journal Reveals Keys to Telomere Length and Human Disease
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
New extensive study shares recent discoveries and sheds light on the role of telomere length in human diseases and aging. Part 3 of 3.
Jan 25, 2018
Chinese Scientists Just Cloned a Monkey—Here Are the Details
Posted by Gerard Bain in category: biotech/medical
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHizi6njTag
In 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned from a somatic cell. Twenty years later, scientists have succeeded in using the same technique on primates—as detailed in a study published today in the journal Cell, two long-tailed macaque monkeys were born at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai.