Fight Aging!Reports from the front line in the fight against aging. The science of healthy life extension. Activism and advocacy for longer, healthier lives.Reminder: Aging 2008 on June 27th at UCLA- June 18, 2008 By way of a reminder, the Aging 2008 symposium will be held later this month, on June 27th at UCLA, Los Angeles. It's a free event for the public, organized by the Methuselah Foundation, and attended by many of the movers and shakers in aging science and advocacy for longevity research: Applying the new technologies of regenerative and genetic medicine, the engineering approach to aging promises to dramatically extend healthy human life within the next few decades. How do you and your loved...http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001505.php Ageless Animals, the Sea Urchin Edition- June 17, 2008 Many species of animal age very slowly, and some so slowly that researchers have not yet been able to pin down either a rate of aging or a life span absent predation and accident. Some of those species might not age at all, but we'll have to wait for researchers to establish whether or not this is the case. Take the lobster, for example. Despite all the eating and farming that takes place, there's less funding for basic research into lobster biology than you might expect. As a consequence: To...http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001504.php Aging- June 16, 2008 There's nothing wrong with becoming old, but everything wrong with aging. Old means experienced, invested, wealthier, time-tested and just all-round better for having been around the block. Aging, on the other hand, is the direct result of biochemical damage you picked up along the way - ongoing deterioration that is a side-effect of being alive. The passage of years brings a constant flow of opportunities for growth and self-improvement, until aging takes away your ability to compete, your...http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001503.php 500 Scientists- June 13, 2008 The rough estimate of resources required to develop - for mice - the medical capabilities called for by the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) is presently $1 billion over ten years, give or take. Each of these six lines of research would require total funding in the range of $2m to $15m per year, spread over at least three and sometimes 15 research teams. These teams will typically be working in a university or other research setting. The lines of research span six of the...http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001502.php Horizons For Immunotherapy- June 13, 2008 I'm given to note that progress in targeted therapies - in particular those that use nanoparticles like dendrimers to string together homing mechanisms with cell destruction payloads - is very important. All sorts of cells need killing as we get older, to prevent the damage they cause: cancer cells, senescent cells, and so forth. Targeted nanoparticle therapies will soon provide a broad and extensible technology platform to get that job done, for any cell whose biochemistry we know how to...http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001501.php |