Applying the new technologies of regenerative and genetic medicine, the engineering approach to aging promises to dramatically extend healthy human life within the next few decades. How do you and your loved ones stand to benefit from the coming biomedical revolution? Are you prepared? Is society prepared? At Aging 2008 you will engage with top ...

The Betterhumans community has joined forces with the Methuselah Foundation in their efforts to support new technologies to slow and even reverse the damage of the aging process. Betterhumans has taken a seat among the Methuselah Foundation's Mprize 300, directly funding SENS research. We encourage all members of the community to take ...

A look back at 2006 and some of what is to come in 2007 from the Methuselah Foundation (MF) founders: ''A major effort of the MF during 2006 will become public only in the fall: a popular science book describing [the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)] in depth for a general audience. It will be published by St. Martin's Press, ...

Mark Hamalainen is funded by the Methuselah Foundation under the MitoSENS banner, a project to replicate fragile mitochondrial DNA in the cellular nucleus and thus prevent its contribution to aging. Like many of the younger generation of bioscientists, he's open about the desired goal of healthy life extension: ''it is good to be alive today, so ...

The Methuselah Foundation has received its second seven-figure donation: $3.5 million from Peter Thiel. ''Rapid advances in biological science foretell of a treasure trove of discoveries this century, including dramatically improved health and longevity for all. I'm backing Dr. de Grey, because I believe that his revolutionary approach to aging ...