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  • Longevity Cook Book Indie Go Go campaign successful by Maria Konovalenko

    Longevity Cook Book Indie Go Go campaign successful by Maria Konovalenko

    A crowd funding campaign was run by Maria Konovalenko to raise funds for a Longevity Cook Book. As the name suggests, the book aims to tell people about scientific approaches to Longevity. It will provide a longevity diet and provide recipes using life-extending products. As expected, she was able to raise the full fund needed …...

  • The Human UPGRADE

    The Human UPGRADE

    Several founder/inventor of tech giant like Google, Facebook, eBay, Napster, Netscape using their billions to rewrite the nation’s science agenda and transform biomedical research. They are using technological tools like the chips, artificial intelligence software programs, sophisticated algorithms and machine learning in creating an information revolution — to understand and upgrade what they consider to …...

  • What If You Could Live for 10,000 years?

    Feb 8, 15 • Aging, LongevityNo Comments
    What If You Could Live for 10,000 years?

    “I’m not saying let’s live forever,” says Zoltan Istvan, transhumanist author, philosopher, and political candidate. “I think what we want is the choice to be able to live indefinitely. That might be 10,000 years; that might only be 170 years.” Istvan devoted his life to transhumanism after nearly stepping on an old landmine while reporting …...

  • Ten years to the Singularity

    Ten years to the Singularity

    We could get to the singularity in ten years says AGI pioneer Ben Goertzel, but we needed a strategy to reach this goal. Such goal can be achieve if right kind of people focus on right things. He gave some ways and examples to achieve this goal like…. Dantzig’s solution to ‘unsolvable’ statistics problems, where Dantzig’s solved …...

  • Live Streaming of International Online Longevity Day Conference 2014, India

    Oct 5, 14 • Aging, General, LongevityNo Comments
    Live Streaming of International Online Longevity Day Conference 2014, India

    Day to create awareness about Longevity Research on 1st of October (also International Day of older persons) and we’re celebrating Longevity Day this year on the first week of October i.e. 5th October, Sunday during 4:00 PM-8:00 PM (GMT+5:30).  So please join us and make it success. List of Speakers for International Online Longevity Day …...

  • A History of Life-extensionism in the TWENTIETH CENTURY

    Sep 30, 14 • Aging, Book Excerpt, GeneralNo Comments
    A History of Life-extensionism in the TWENTIETH CENTURY

    A new book on the history of Life Extension research entitled “A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century ” By Ilia Stambler, PhD Proceedings from the sales of this book will be donated to international longevity research and advocacy projects, for example Regional Longevity Outreach or Israeli Longevity Alliance  or others. You can find more information on the subject …...

  • Life Extension Gene “Klotho” also extend your Cognition

    Aug 14, 14 • Aging, Brain, Gene, General, LongevityNo Comments
    Life Extension Gene “Klotho” also extend your Cognition

    Aging is the primary risk factor for cognitive decline, an emerging health threat to aging societies worldwide. Whether anti-aging factors such as klotho can counteract cognitive decline is unknown. Scientists shows that a lifespan-extending variant of the human KLOTHO gene, KL-VS, is associated with enhanced cognition in heterozygous carriers. Because this allele increased klotho levels in serum and …...

  • Longevity and the Indian Tradition

    Jun 3, 13 • Aging, General, Longevity3 Comments
    Longevity and the Indian Tradition

    Does the pursuit of longevity, or even radical longevity, have future in India? The following article will consider this question mainly in ideological, cultural and historical terms, rather than in terms of analyzing current technological and demographic trends. In demographic terms, as was also noted earlier, the life expectancy in India is till relatively low …...