... "In the labs today, people are discovering how to fabricate new nanometer-scale structures for regenerative medicine," he said. Eigler believes that this technology could blossom over the next 10 to 15 years and that it eventually will result in pharmacies built into the human body that automatically administer medicines based on ...

Dear Future Centenarian,   Here’s a breaking story from KurzwilAI.net:   Two studies provide new insights on exceptional longevity. In a study of risk factors that may be part of the 75% of human life span variation not attributable to genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital researchers estimated that a ...

Scientists from around the world are racing to answer one of humanity's chief questions: can we turn back the human clock?  Hitch a ride on this controversial roller-coaster with charismatic gerontologist Michael Rose as he leads us to where the cutting-edge science in life extension is happening: biotechnology, genetic research, therapeutic ...

The Immortality Institute is hosting a live question and answer chat with S Jay Olshansky, PhD, this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. central time U.S., Sunday December 2nd. For this time in other parts of the world, see this link. For more information on this chat, see the thread at ImmInst on it.  We have had a few excellent chats (with Aubrey de Grey ...

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 ...

Hm, there are of course a number of other things each of us could do to fight and eventually hopefully end aging. One thing that comes to mind is: Donate to the Methulselah Foundation Betterhumans members can do this as part of the Betterhumans The 300 group donation to support SENS research. Here is how it works: The group was ...

14 minutes of excerpts from over 5 hours of presentations on the 2-disk Alcor DVD of the 2006 conference – ''An Inside Look at the Science and Medicine of Tomorrow.'' Is it possible to stop aging? Will nanomedicine and medical nanorobots dramatically extend the human lifespan? Can cryopreserved human beings be revived in the future and what ...

Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing ...

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.