I just uploaded the documentary of Aubrey de Grey that Channel 4 in the UK did earlier this year to Google Videos, for anyone interested: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972 It was pretty interesting, imo.  

Hey Everyone!   Thought you might enjoy this short film I producer featuring interviews with Ray Kurzweil, Michael Fossel, Michael West, and Dan Baker.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOFBqDVfhE     Best, JAson Silva Filmmaker  Host / Producer CURRENT TV 

Crossposted from advancednano.blogspot.com Robert Freitas had a very interesting essay a few years back called ''Death is an Outrage'', which discusses how long life spans could be extended if our bodies could be rejuvenated and maintained without aging as a factor. If we cure diseases but do not have effective rejuvenation then we get less ...

The BBC is reporting on how twenty-eight scientists working in gerontology have submitted a rebuttal to a paper published by Dr Aubrey de Grey in the journal EMBO Reports last year. The rebuttal is not so much a technical account of the apparent failings of Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) as it is a blanket discrediting ...

Remember back in January 2005 when Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin slammed anti-aging expert Aubrey de Grey? Well, looks like Pontin is at it again, and this time he's putting his money where his mouth is.Last July Pontin offered a challenge to anyone who could successfully discredit de Grey's theory of SENS (Strategies for ...

Direct from the 'lack of vision' department comes S. Jay Olshanksky's latest offering to the great life extension debate. In collaboration with Daniel Perry, Richard A. Miller and Robert N. Butler, Olshansky has published a piece for The Scientist in which he comes out in favour of life extending interventions.But typical of ...