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• Muscle enhancement: Myostatin inhibition in humans

  Cross posted from advancednano This is a follow up to my recent posting of the myostatin inhibitor drug result in mice. As noted by the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) society, myostatin inhibitor clinical trials have begun on humans. The Read More...
  Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 6:18 PM by advancednano / 1 Comments

  Tags: gene therapy, medicine, transhumanist, future, muscle enhancement

• Myostatin drugs possibly four times better muscle growth than steroids without the harmful side effects

  Crossposted from advancednano.blogspot.com MIT Technology Review reports: The drug ACE-031 has been found to reproduce the enhanced muscle growth effect caused by certain genes. Genetic manipulation in mice can cause 4 times the muscle growth. The drug Read More...
  Posted Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:45 AM by advancednano / 2 Comments

  Tags: transhuman, gene therapy, medicine, transhumanist, enhancement

• Eye sight that is 2 to 4 times better than 20/20

  Cross posted from advancednano Michael Anissimov over at Accelerating Future discusses CNN polls that CNN presented as part of their future summit One facet of enhancement that is not controversial but is widespread is vision enhancement. In the further Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:28 PM by advancednano / 4 Comments

  Tags: regeneration, transhuman, medicine, future, enhancement, robotics, cyborg

• Advance in understanding and stimulating regeneration

  Cross posted from advancednano.blogspot.com Scientists at Forsyth may have moved one step closer to regenerating human spinal cord tissue by artificially inducing a frog tadpole to re-grow its tail at a stage in its development when it is normally impossible. Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:07 PM by advancednano / 0 Comments

  Tags: regeneration, longevity, transhuman, gene therapy, future medicine, medicine

• Simulating one million neurons in hardware

  crossposted from advancednano.blogspot.com Models of the brain built from specially designed computer chips could reveal the secrets of our cerebrum and are on the path to re-engineering the brain to enable the Singularity and could lead to transhuman Read More...
  Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 2:40 PM by advancednano / 1 Comments

  Tags: cognitive enhancement, super intelligence, enhancement, singularity, transhuman, artificial intelligence, medicine

• Next generation retinal implants

  crossposted from Scientists plan to test an implanted chip with four times the resolution of the previous version in people blinded by retinal degeneration It now has 60 pixels instead of 16 and because it is smaller the operation to implant it is much Read More...
  Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 11:17 AM by advancednano / 0 Comments

  Tags: future medicine, medicine

• Comment to CNN about how far you would go for health?

  reposted from advancednano.blogspot.com This week (Dec 11-14, 2006) CNN's show Anderson Cooper 360 asks the question how far would you go for Health and Well Being? This link is a place where you can provide feedback. My questions are 1. What is wrong Read More...
  Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 11:03 PM by advancednano / 4 Comments

  Tags: life extension, FDA, anti-aging, medicine, health