First Aubrey de Grey was on 60 Minutes. Then he was on FastForward Radio. I guess all glory is fleeting. Poor Aubrey is reduced to doing Stephen Colbert. Well, what the hey — let’s tune in anyhow. UPDATE: Aubrey did great. I figured Colbert would tear him to shreds, but not at all. He held […]
First Aubrey de Grey was on 60 Minutes. Then he was on FastForward Radio. I guess all glory is fleeting. Poor Aubrey is reduced to doing Stephen Colbert. Well, what the hey — let’s tune in anyhow. UPDATE: Aubrey did great. I figured Colbert would tear him to shreds, but not at all. He held […]
…while waiting for real life extension (like maybe SRT501) to be developed: 102 Ways to Slow Down Aging – Christina Laun at “Bootstrapper” It’s a good collection of old school advice on taking care yourself. Some are these things are more fun than others.
Back in 2004 I predicted that we’d have life extension by 2014. I have on several occasions reaffirmed this prediction. Last year I added: This idea – that progress in life extension science continues regardless of its description – is part of the reasoning behind my prediction that we will have some form of life […]
A lengthy and mostly positive portrayal. Check it out.
Stephen has been blogging up a storm on the subject of Aubrey de Grey’s landmark new book, Ending Aging, which I will be reviewing in the near future. If you haven’t bought a copy yet (or even if you have!) and would like to get a copy of the book signed by the author, here’s […]
Long, long ago in the primordial soup, before the arrival of multicellular life, single-celled life was eating and being eaten. Normally this is the starkest of all zero-sum games. When the lion wins, the wildebeest loses – big time. But there was a notable exception in the soup. One prey species evolved a remarkable defense. […]
Aubrey de Grey has stated that aging is caused by seven problems: Cell loss, cell atrophy Junk outside cells Crosslinks outside cells Death-resistant cells Mitochondrial mutations Junk inside cells Nuclear mutations that cause cancer Each of these problems got a chapter in Aubrey’s new book Ending Aging. In each chapter de Grey explained the problem […]
It appears that old guys hooking up with younger women may be a key to increasing human lifespan: Women often lose their reproductive capacity around age 50, but if men can still reproduce into their 70s, Darwin would say it’s advantageous for males to live longer lives providing they can hook up with a woman […]
Aubrey de Grey from Ending Aging: There were actual land sites all over the planet that should be very badly contaminated by lipofuscin [waste byproducts of metabolism that our cells can't break down and, therefore, contribute to aging.], because their soil has been seeded with the stuff for generations. I speak, of course, of graveyards. […]