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 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 …...
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 …...
Death is not a topic that anyone likes to think about, and that is just as true of advocates for longevity science as anyone else. We have to recognize, however, that the future of greatly extended healthy lives, produced by technologies, regenerative medicine, and medical nanotechnology, will not arrive soon enough to benefit everyone but …...
The 12th International Federation on Ageing Global Conference will be held in Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad from the 10th – 13th June 2014. The main themes for the conference will be “Health, Security, Community” http://ifa2014.in/ Hundreds of delegates from all over the world will bring to the forefront various aspects and problems related to ageing, which …...
Every human being has both a minimum and a maximum amount of life hours left to live. If you add together the possible maximum life hours of every living person on the planet, you arrive at a special number: the optimum amount of time for our species to evolve, find happiness, and become the most …...
Audience for this essay: You can save yourself from wasting some of your finite and far too short lifespan by totally ignoring this essay if you fall into any of the following three categories: Now, for those of you still with me, here we go… Thought Experiment: You are living in a future time, around …...
Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases. Arthur D. Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be Chief Executive Officer and a founding investor. Announcing this new investment, Larry Page, Google CEO said: “Illness and aging …...
Containing more than 160 essays from over 40 contributors, this edited volume of essays on the science, philosophy and politics of longevity considers the project of ending aging and abolishing involuntary death-by-disease from a variety of viewpoints: scientific, technological, philosophical, pragmatic, artistic. In it you will find not only information on the ways in which …...
If we are going to continue and seek out new evolutionary paths for the human species, lengthening the amount of lifespan for each and everyone of us, is quite a first step to complete, but which also has the potential to accelerate our capabilities and capacities to use technology to transform ourselves. Living a longer, …...
