Microvascular Stamp Guides Blood Vessel Growth
Here is an interesting application of guided tissue growth, that focuses on blood vessels. A wide range of work is under way on blood vessel engineering and control of growth, as the ability to Continue Reading
The Case for Enhancing People
From the New Atlantis, a tour of some of the disturbing views of those who are opposed to enhanced longevity, and in favor of government force used to set limits to life: "Age-retardation Continue Reading
Overestimating the Near Future
It is a truism that, in general, people who look ahead to the future both greatly overestimate predicted progress in the near term of twenty years or less and greatly underestimate predicted progress Continue Reading
Calorie Restriction Reduces Mitochondrial Damage
A study here shows that calorie restriction reduces levels of mitochondrial damage that accumulates with age - that damage being thought of as a contributing cause of aging - but in different levels Continue Reading
Pessimism on Sarcopenia
An open access paper that suggests that producing therapies for the characteristic loss of muscle mass and strength with age - known as sarcopenia - may be more challenging than we'd like it to be: Continue Reading
Politics, Perceptions, and Money
Politics, perceptions, and money: these are the guiding trinity of research at the grand scale, the source of determinants for the work of thousands of researchers and the rate and direction of Continue Reading
POLLEN POWER Epicuren’s skin savers
Back in the seventies, Dr. J. Baker and Dr. A. Minton started treating severely scarred burn victims with enzyme technology. After observing the results, the doctors saw its potential for healthy, Continue Reading
Zelens- Anti-Aging Skin Care—for Every Age
Beverly Hills socialites and Hollywood’s haute monde are snapping up a new European skin line that uses the most powerful ingredients available without a prescription. Zelens 3t Complex Continue Reading
MILLION DOLLAR MOISTURIZER Atopalm skin repair creams
ATOPALM Moisturizing Skin Revitalizing Complex ATOPALM’s new EXTRA Repair Serum is ideal for combating the drying effects of the lingering winter weather. This multi-benefit, paraben free Continue Reading
SKINCARE SAVIOR Dermelect’s new stem cell cream is miraculous!
Dermelect's new Resilient stem cell regenerating treatment stimulates skin cells to reveal a firmer, smoother and more radiant visage. What puts the exclusive Dermelect stamp of luxury on this Continue Reading
A Look at Reactive Oxygen Species and Aging
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are damaging molecules that can rip up important cellular machinery; all machinery in a cell is an arrangement of atoms, and promiscuously reactive molecules can gum up Continue Reading
Microinfarcts in the Brain Contribute to Cognitive Impairment
One of the ways in which general health practices - such as exercise and fitness - steer cognitive health is through the state of the blood vessels in your brain: if they are deteriorating more Continue Reading
Naysayers Abound
Opposition to enhanced human longevity, which often advocates collectivism and the use of government force to prevent other people from extending their lives through biotechnology, is based on a Continue Reading
A Bright Future, Absent Grim Clouds, But Up to Us to Make it Golden
Below you'll see optimism on the topic of longevity and the future, personal and otherwise, from the establishment political press, which is an unusual enough event to be worthy of remark. These are Continue Reading
AGEs in a Mole Rat
A progressive build up of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) is implicated in the aging process; they contribute to skin aging, for example. There are some research programs aimed at producing Continue Reading
Yet More on Lifespan and Character
Correlations between character traits and longevity seem to be a growing area of study; interesting results, though of dubious importance, I think: "The relationship between personality and life span Continue Reading
Can We Say that Longevity Has Led to an Epidemic of Age-Related Disease?
I noticed an easy read of an open access position paper today that asks whether the common wisdom regarding the prevalence of age-related disease today is an open and shut case. Can we definitively Continue Reading
Hydrogel Spurs Skin Regeneration
Via EurekAlert!: have developed a jelly-like material and wound treatment method that, in early experiments on skin damaged by severe burns, appeared to regenerate healthy, scar-free tissue. ... the Continue Reading
Targeting via Nanoparticles versus Macular Degeneration
The use of nanoparticles to precisely deliver compounds to cells and specific locations within cells has a far broader application than just cancer therapies. Any existing drug that can be targeted Continue Reading
Working Towards Replacement Neurons for Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's researchers were among the first to earnestly attempt to create a specific cell type for transplant, and have continued to work at this. The obvious symptoms of Parkinson's are caused by Continue Reading
