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Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – July 10, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – July 10, 2012

TRA’s Resources on Indefinite Life Extension page has been enhanced over the past two months with links to numerous fascinating articles and videos.

Articles

– “Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle” – Kate Kelland – Reuters – May 22, 2012

– “Is Amyloidosis the Limiting Factor for Human Lifespan?” – Lyle J. Dennis, M.D. – Extreme Longevity – May 22, 2012

– “Israeli scientists create beating heart tissue from skin cells” – The Telegraph – May 23, 2012

– “Paralyzed rats walk again in Swiss lab study” – Chris Wickham – MSNBC.com – May 31, 2012

– “New Cancer Drugs Use Body’s Own Defenses” – Ron Winslow – Wall Street Journal – June 1, 2012

– “Bristol immune drug shows promise in three cancers” – Julie Steenhuysen – Reuters – June 2, 2012

– “Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped” – Victoria Colliver – San Francisco Chronicle – June 2, 2012

– “New ‘smart bomb’ drug attacks breast cancer, doctors say” – Associated Press – June 3, 2012

– “Alzheimer’s vaccine trial a success” – Karolinska Institutet – June 6, 2012

– “Man Cured of AIDS: ‘I Feel Good’” – Carrie Gann – ABC News – June 8, 2012

– “Artificial Lifeforms Promise Cleaner World, Healthier Humans” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – June 9, 2012

– “Secret of ageing found: Japanese scientists pave way to everlasting life” – RT – June 9, 2012

– “How aging normal cells fuel tumor growth and metastasis” – Thomas Jefferson University – June 14, 2012

– “People Who Justify Aging are Profoundly Wrong – Aging is Abhorrent” – Maria Konovalenko – Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies – June 14, 2012

– “Scientists tie DNA repair to key cell signaling network” – University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston – June 15, 2012

– “Deciding How We Age as We Age” – Seth Cochran – h+ Magazine – June 19, 2012

– “How we die (in one chart)” – Sarah Kliff – Washington Post – June 22, 2012

– “Modified humans: the most cost-efficient way to colonize space” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – June 2012

– “Japanese Scientists Grow Human Liver From Stem Cells” – Reuters and Singularity Weblog – June 2012

– “Why Do Naked Mole Rats Live So Long? Do they hold the key to human life extension?” – Maria Konovalenko – Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies – June 29, 2012

– “Scientists Develop Alternative to Gene Therapy” – ScienceDaily – Scripps Research Institute – July 1, 2012

– “How to live beyond 100” – Lucy Wallis – BBC News – July 2, 2012

– “Earth 2050-2100: longer lives; new energy; FTL travel; global village” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – July 3, 2012

– “Scientists discover bees can ‘turn back time,’ reverse brain aging” – Phys.org – Arizona State University – July 3, 2012

– “Secret formula may be key to reverse aging” – Mike Holfeld – Click Orlando – July 4, 2012

– “Is there a biological limit to longevity?” – Aubrey de Grey – KurzweilAI – July 5, 2012

– “Demystifying the immortality of cancer cells” – Medical Xpress – July 5, 2012

– “Suggesting a Test of Rapamycin and Metformin Together” – Reason – FightAging.org – July 5, 2012

– “Earth 2050-2100: Longer Lives; New Energy; FTL Travel; Global Village” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – July 7, 2012

Videos

Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey – Aging & Suffering – Interview with Adam Ford – May 31, 2012

Nikola Danaylov (Socrates)

Anders Sandberg on Singularity 1 on 1: We Are All Amazingly Stupid, But We Can Get Better – May 27, 2012

Hugo de Garis on Singularity 1 on 1: Are We Building Gods or Terminators? – June 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – May 19, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – May 19, 2012

TRA’s Resources on Indefinite Life Extension page has been enhanced over the past month with links to numerous fascinating articles and videos.

Articles

– “New Laser For Neurosurgery Allows Greater Precision And Efficiency For Removal Of Complex Turmors” – ScienceDaily – January 28, 2009

– “Tiny Particles May Help Surgeons by Marking Brain Tumors” – ScienceDaily – April 29, 2010

– “Tagging Tumors With Gold: Scientists Use Gold Nanorods to Flag Brain Tumors” – ScienceDaily – October 12, 2011

– “Immortal worms defy aging” – KurzweilAI – February 29, 2012

– “Earth 2512: humans embrace their technologies; reach for the stars” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – April 2012

– “Teenager Invents Anti-Aging, Disease-Fighting Compound Using Tree Nanoparticles” – Science 2.0 – May 8, 2012

– “A Libertarian Transhumanist Critique of Jeffrey Tucker’s ‘A Lesson in Mortality’” – G. Stolyarov II – May 13, 2012

– “Gene therapy for aging-associated decline” – KurzweilAI – May 16, 2012

– “Breakthrough in Gene Therapy Holds Great Promise” – Joshua Lipana – The Objective Standard – May 16, 2012

Videos

Aubrey de Grey – Debate with Colin Blakemore: “This house wants to defeat ageing entirely”

Part 1 – Main Debate 

Part 2 – Audience Q&A

The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford University – April 28, 2012

Aziz Aboobaker

Neverending DNA and Immortal Worms – February 27, 2012

G. Stolyarov II

The Real War – and Why Inter-Human Wars Are a Distraction – March 15, 2012

A Libertarian Transhumanist Critique of Jeffrey Tucker’s “A Lesson in Mortality” – May 15, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – April 19, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – April 19, 2012

TRA’s Resources on Indefinite Life Extension page has been expanded today with links to several engaging articles, some describing recent groundbreaking discoveries in layman-accessible terms.

– “Group Set To Sequence 1000 Genomes By The End Of The Year” – Peter Murray – Singularity Hub – April 4, 2012

– “Nanostars Deliver Cancer Drugs Direct To Nucleus” – Catharine Paddock, PhD – Medical News Today – April 8, 2012

– “Human-machine interfaces: becoming one with our machines” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – April 2012

– “Fullerene C60 administration doubles rat lifespan with no toxicity” – KurzweilAI.net – April 17, 2012

– “Eternal health and youth will soon be possible, scientists say” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – April 17, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – April 15, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – April 15, 2012

TRA’s Resources on Indefinite Life Extension page has been expanded today with links to several hours of highly engaging videos:

Cushing Academy: Panel on Aging – Dr. Aubrey de Grey – December 14, 2009

Aubrey de Grey’s Plan to Stop Aging – BigThink – June 2, 2011

Peter Thiel on “Back to the Future” at Singularity Summit 2011 – October 23, 2011

An Immortal Life? An Evening with Aubrey de Grey – October 26, 2011

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking – Episode 2: Health – January 2012

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking – Episode 5: Biology – January 2012

The false dichotomy of the afterlife – Video by Zinnia Jones – March 8, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – April 8, 2012

Update to Resources on Indefinite Life Extension – April 8, 2012

The New Renaissance Hat
G. Stolyarov II
April 8, 2012
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TRA’s Resources on Indefinite Life Extension page has been expanded today with links to the following additional articles from the recent past:

– “Discovery in Salamanders Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration” – Maria Konovalenko – November 1, 2010

– “Aging Reversed in Mice: Have Scientists Found Key to Immortality?” – Sammy Rose Saltzman – CBS News – November 29, 2010

– “Kazakhstan President for Life Asks for More Life” – Joshua Norman – CBS News – December 7, 2010

– “Researchers jumpstart nerve fibers to reverse stroke damage” – Maria Konovalenko – December 10, 2010

– “Here is the Research Needed to Combat Aging” – Maria Konovalenko – December 13, 2010

– “President of Kazakhstan urges scientists to unlock the secret to immortality” – Maria Konovalenko – December 13, 2010

– “Stem cells used to grow functioning human intestine” – Maria Konovalenko – December 15, 2010

– “The main result of the year – The first regenerative medicine surgery in Russia” – Maria Konovalenko – December 30, 2010

– “Food Freezing Technology Preserves Human Teeth. Organs Next?” – Constance J. Woodman – Singularity Hub – January 23, 2011

– “Freezing without cryoprotectants” – Maria Konovalenko – January 29, 2011

– “True DIY Biology: Man Designs and Produces Own Aortic Implant” – Maria Konovalenko – February 3, 2011

– “One Drug to Shrink All Tumors” – Sarah C. P. Williams – Science Magazine – March 26, 2012

– “Are Cancer Stem Cells Ready for Prime Time?” – Suling Liu, Hasan Korkaya, and Max S. Wicha – The Scientist – April 1, 2012

– “‘Backpacking’ bacteria to deliver nanomedicines in the body” – KurzweilAI.net – April 2, 2012

– “Scientists report major breakthrough in age-related macular degeneration prevention” – MedicalXpress.com – April 8, 2012

I encourage you to explore these articles and discover how science has been advancing in recent years with the aim of eventually extending your longevity and health.