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"Do you want to be in the control group or the experimental group?" - attributed to R. Merkle
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
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Scottish Scientists Create Maxwell’s Demon Nanomotor contributed by member on 2007-02-02 |
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| Professor David Leigh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Chemistry has created the mythical Maxwell's Demon. It is a nanoscale motor that sorts molecules between two enclosures. Maxwell's Demon was an 1867 thought experiment by the famous Scottish scientist that puportedly violated the second law of thermodynamics. | ||||||||
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Dichloroacetate Cancer Breakthrough contributed by member on 2007-01-23 |
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| Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered that a simple molecule, dichloroacetate has remarkable anti-cancer properties without harmful side effects. | ||||||||
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January 12th Dr. James Bedford Day contributed by member on 2007-01-12 |
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| Forty years ago Dr. James Bedford became the first person to be put into cryogenic suspension. | ||||||||
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Pessimists 42% more likely to die earlier than Optimists contributed by member on 2006-12-27 |
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| A study reported in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings of December 2006 shows that pessimists tend to die sooner than optimists. "These latest findings are based on a 40-year follow-up of 6,958 men and women who entered the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the mid-1960s. At the time, they took a standard personality test that gauges a person's tendency to be optimistic or pessimistic." |
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ALCOR on PAULA ZAHN NOW contributed by member on 2006-12-22 |
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| "Buying Immortality" Program on CNN In April, Alcor's Chief Medical Advisor, Dr. Steven B. Harris, and local Alcor members were interviewed for a piece to air on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Show. As often happens with news programs, Alcor's planned segment was bumped. The producer contacted Alcor today to notify us that the piece is set to air tonight (Friday, December 22) from 8-9pm EST on the Paula Zahn NOW Show. Tune in to the Paula Zahn NOW Show on CNN tonight (8-9pm Eastern) to see the piece about Alcor. |
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$25000 matching grant to Alcor for Fracture Free Research contributed by member on 2006-12-20 |
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| A $25000 grant has been made to Alcor for research into solving the problem of fractures occuring at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Donations before Feb 28, 2007 will be matched upto $25000 for this program. An annealing process the probably route for this research. | ||||||||
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Japanese Man survives 3 weeks in hypothermia contributed by member on 2006-12-20 |
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| A 35 year old Japanese man has supposedly made a full recovery after spending three weeks in hypothermia without food or water. "Mitsutaka Uchikoshi had almost no pulse, his organs had all but shut down and his body temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit when he was discovered on Rokko mountain in late October, said doctors who treated him at the nearby Kobe City General Hospital. He had been missing for 24 days." |
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Dr. Nadrian C. Seeman’s RNA controlled DNA nanomachine contributed by member on 2006-12-09 |
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| "We plan to use the devices to control the output of ribosome-like DNA devices. Systems responsive to RNA can report on the state of the solution and build molecules in response to that input" says Seeman. "This will be real hard." | ||||||||
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Dendritic spines found to be electrical adding machines contributed by member on 2006-12-08 |
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| Dendritic spines of neurons in humans have been found to modulate an electrical signal depending on their length. It was long believed with little evidence that the spines functioned biochemically but now research by Rafael Yuste and colleagues at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia University have shown this is not the case. Yuste says "Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the purpose of the filtering we discovered is to enable neurons to linearly integrate inputs without interfering with one another." |
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Dendritic spine home movie from Duke University contributed by member on 2006-12-08 |
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| "When the scientists triggered the neurons, they saw the recycling endosomes, labeled with a green dye, streaming up and down the neurons, dipping in and out of the dendritic spines. Inside the dendritic spines, the recycling endosomes deposited pieces of recycled proteins that grew new spines or changed the shape and size of existing spines, Ehlers said." | ||||||||
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Purdue $7 Million grant to study viral motor for drug delivery contributed by member on 2006-12-08 |
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| "The nanomedicine center will employ these tools by adapting a viral motor to package therapeutic cargo within a drug-delivery system that is already widely used in cancer clinics and in infectious disease treatments" | ||||||||
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S. Jay Olshansky contributed by member on 2006-12-08 |
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| Olshansky calls for US government funding of $3 billion a year (approx 1% of the current Medicare budget) to the goal of decelerating human aging by seven years. | ||||||||
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