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Dec 13, 2019

People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, life extension

To solve the problem of Japan’s ageing workforce, tech companies have developed exoskeletons that help older workers continue to do heavy manual labour.

Dec 12, 2019

The Cancer Within Modern Medicine Part 5: Transhumanism

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity, transhumanism

Wow, the shit flies are flying out of the trash cans of Earth… I myself do not desire the thought of man and machine becoming one literally bolted together. But only as Singularity has been now for centuries.

For centuries every technological marvel of the era man became the brain of the covered wagon the bicycle the car the train the Plane now Rocket ships.

Each machine man had to become one with it for it to work. Mans brain became machine like-calculating to operate these miracles of each generation.

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Dec 12, 2019

Plant stem cells in cosmetics: current trends and future directions

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension

Plant regeneration at the cellular and tissue level is a unique process. Similar to animals, the stem cells in plants have properties that help stimulate and regenerate plants after injury. The unique properties of plant stem cells have been a recent area of interest and focus both in developing new cosmetics and studying how these extracts/phytohormones will influence animal skin. This special report focuses on the current evidence-based trends in plant stem cell-based cosmetics and sheds light on the challenges that we need to overcome in order to see meaningful changes in human skin using topical cosmetics derived from plant stem cells.

Keywords: : aging skin, antiaging, Ayurveda, cosmetics, epidermal stem cells, herbs, plant stem cells, regeneration.

Plants are equipped with a robust mechanism for regeneration of their tissues under stress. Significant efforts have been put into understanding this mechanism in the expanding field of plant biotechnology []. In animals, tissue regeneration occurs following a wound stimulus, resulting in the initiation of organ repair. By contrast, the regenerative efforts made by the plants are not only for tissue repair from damage, but also for the development of a new plant []. In other words, cutting the branch of a tree also results in a new bud/branch growth. Can we use this unique property in plants for improving tissue regeneration in animals? “Eat an apple a day…But can it keep aging away?” is thus the question. This report focuses on current applications of plant stem cell-based cosmetics and current research into effects of plant stem cells in human skin.

Dec 12, 2019

A New Healthcare Framework for Aging Populations

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

A new publication by an international team of scientists has proposed a new healthcare framework to help older people stay healthier for longer by improving the development of therapies that target age-related diseases.

Society is aging, and we need to change healthcare for the better

This new publication urges World Health Organization (WHO), governments, and the medical science community to work together and develop classifications and staging systems using a new framework as a basis for diagnosing and treating age-related diseases.

Dec 11, 2019

New Anti-Aging Clinical Trial Begins. For $1 Million, You Can Be a Participant

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

A Kansas-based company launched a clinical trial in Colombia to reverse aging. But will it work?

Dec 11, 2019

Scientists Dodge FDA to Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

The unproven gene therapy aims to lengthen a person’s telomeres.

Dec 11, 2019

The DNA Damage Response in Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

DNA damage, which results in genomic instability, is one of the primary hallmarks of aging. Today, we want to highlight an recent open access review that explores the DNA damage response during aging.

The role of DNA damage

Some researchers have long suggested that damage to our DNA is a major reason why we age and a strong determinant of species longevity; indeed, many-long lived species have extremely stable genomes, such as bristlecone pines, which have lifespans of over 5000 years.

Dec 11, 2019

Tryptophan as a Therapeutic Target for Inflammaging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

A new open access paper takes a look at tryptophan and the role that it plays in the dysfunction of the immune system in the context of the age-related changes that occur in the microbiome [1].

The microbiome

The gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem of bacteria, archaea, eukarya, and viruses that live inside of us, some beneficial and some harmful, the balance of which keeps us alive. Four microbial phyla, Firmicutes, Bacteroides, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria, make up 98% of the total population of the intestinal microbiome.

Dec 11, 2019

Ruby Yanru Chen-Tsai presenting at Undoing Aging 2020

Posted by in category: life extension

Accelerating rejuvenation therapies to repair the damage of aging. Berlin, May 21 — 23.

Dec 11, 2019

Alzheimer’s drug candidates reverse broader aging, study shows

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

In mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, the investigational drug candidates known as CMS121 and J147 improve memory and slow the degeneration of brain cells. Now, Salk researchers have shown how these compounds can also slow aging in healthy older mice, blocking the damage to brain cells that normally occurs during aging and restoring the levels of specific molecules to those seen in younger brains.

The research, published last month in the journal eLife, suggests that the drug candidates may be useful for treating a broader array of conditions and points out a new pathway that links normal aging to Alzheimer’s disease.

“This study further validated these two compounds not only as Alzheimer’s drug candidates but also as potentially more widely useful for their anti-aging effects,” says Pamela Maher, a senior staff scientist at Salk and a co-corresponding author of the new paper.