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Aging

reason — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:52:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) There's nothing wrong with becoming old, but everything wrong with aging. Old means experienced, invested, wealthier, time-tested and just all-round better for having been around the block. Aging, on the other hand,...(read more)

500 Scientists

reason — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:23:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) The rough estimate of resources required to develop - for mice - the medical capabilities called for by the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) is presently $1 billion over ten years , give or take....(read more)

Next Steps For Longevity Science at the Methuselah Foundation

reason — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:26:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) As you might know, Aubrey de Grey's Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) places the known forms of biochemical damage that cause aging into seven categories, each with a recommended path towards...(read more)

The Million Year Lifespan

reason — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:55:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) Aschwin de Wolf continues to republish important writing from the early days of the modern healthy life extension community at Depressed Metabolism. Those were the years of the late 1960s, in which the seeds were laid...(read more)

Engineering an End to Aging

reason — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:58:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) Michael Anissimov is back to writing on the topic of healthy life extension once more, and a good thing too. As more writers craft works of common sense on aging and advocacy for longevity science, it becomes easier to...(read more)

To Conquer Aging

reason — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:55:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) The goal of the more activist end of the healthy life extension community is nothing less than to engineer the defeat of degenerative aging: to develop medical technologies that make it possible to live in good health...(read more)

Waking Up

reason — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:11:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) One day, you wake up to realize that a particularly vital assumption about the world is wrong. Everyone who buys into it is wrong. Which is almost everyone in the world. Everything in the world that depends on it is wrong....(read more)

Things We Don't Need To Know In Order To Cure Aging

reason — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:47:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) Engineering might be regarded as the process of production of working technology in the absence of complete knowledge - the strategies for managing the unknown, and applying what we do know with rigor and to good effect....(read more)

The Value of a Longevity Therapy

reason — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:08:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) It is useful to think about the potential cost of future longevity therapies in the clinic - and changes in that cost over time - and compare this with the value people place on the results. This sort of exercise can...(read more)

Understanding Aging Conference, Los Angeles, June 27th

reason — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:23:00 GMT

( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) Don't forget to mark your calendars for the Understanding Aging conference at UCLA, Los Angeles this June 27th, organized by the Methuselah Foundation and biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey . Despite the unassuming...(read more)