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The Central Florida Life Extension Meetup Group Alcor American Cryonics Society Cryonics Institute Immortality Institute IEET SENS (Aubrey de Grey) Ralph Merkle Nanomedicine Robert Freitas Jr. Singularity Institute
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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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Nanochemistry reactor shown to be explosion proof contributed by member on 2006-12-08 |
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| "Veser, who also is a researcher in Pitt’s Gertrude E and John M Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering, created the reactors by etching tiny channels into silicon chips, using a platinum wire catalyst and running a mix of hydrogen and air through the channel." | ||||||||
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Calorie Restriction shown to improve immune system contributed by member on 2006-12-07 |
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| In this weeks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences scientists from the Oregon National Research Primate Center found that "calorie-restricted older adult rhesus monkeys have at least 30% more naïve T cells than controls." It is believed that improved immune system functioning increases life span in primates like rhesus monkeys. |
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DARPA's amazing biotech programs contributed by member on 2006-12-03 |
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| A quick list of some of the more interesting DARPA projects underway: PAIN VACCINE activated after 10 seconds and lasts for 30 days. RAPID TISSUE REPAIR "photo-modulation using laser technology has been shown to rapidly repair injured tissue like skin, bone, cartilage, ligaments and tendons. What usually takes nature (or drugs) weeks, even months, to repair could be done in a matter of days." CONTINUOUS ASSISTED PERFORMANCES (CAP) By switching off neurons that are 'sleepy' (biochemically depleted) while stimulating other neurons with drugs the hope is to create a 24/7 solder. METABOLICALLY DOMINANT SOLDIER (MDS) "...researchers are aiming to increase the metabolic (work) rate of the internal machinery of human cells to promote strength and endurance" and "to do away with food completely (for up to a week) and let the body live off what it has already stored." ENGINEERED TISSUE CONSTRUCTS (ETC) Customized organs in vitro instead of organ transplants. "One of the aims of ETC is to allow badly-injured soldiers to enter a state of hibernation or suspended animation. In this ‘state’ the soldier could survive long periods without oxygen." LIMB REGROWTH AND ADVANCED PROSTHETIC BIO-INTEGRATION (all this from a sports blog... wow) |
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Kevin Warrick Upgrading Humans Technical Realities & New Morals contributed by member on 2006-12-03 |
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| Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, will be giving a free lecture on December 6th at the British Computer Society, South Wales branch. | ||||||||
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Also from AZoNano: How to make buckytubes contributed by member on 2006-11-28 |
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Unmodified carbon nanotubes found to be safe in the bloodstream contributed by member on 2006-11-28 |
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| Carbon nanotubes that were injected into the bloodstream of research animals at Rice University were found to cause no adverse reactions. They circulated in the blood for more than an hour before being removed by the liver. | ||||||||
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Microrobot to swim bloodstream in Australia contributed by member on 2006-11-28 |
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| Using MEMs/NEMs technology reasearchers at Monash University in Australia are developing micro-robots to swim through the bloodstream. Dr. James Friend has a $300,000 grant from the Australian Research Council to build a micro motor able to power a 250 micron robot. He hopes to have it completed within 3 years. |
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WARNING: New FDA regulations treat supplements as drugs not food contributed by member on 2006-11-23 |
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| "Under S. 3546, when a person has a "serious adverse event" to a drug, food, or supplement, the manufacturer is responsible for finding the cause, when it should be a doctor who is more familiar with the person's health and medical history." | ||||||||
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Synaptic scaffolding proteins create short term memory contributed by member on 2006-11-23 |
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| Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered an important part of the puzzle to how the brain stores memories. AMPA receptor proteins, which bind glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter that is believed to be involved in learning and memory. What the researchers discovered is that it is the amount of scaffolding proteins associated with the AMPA receptors rather than the number of AMPA receptors themselves that determine synaptic strength. | ||||||||
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Naples Columnist however is more optimistic contributed by member on 2006-11-22 |
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| Although columnist Martin Miron doesn't mention cryonics he does have a positive attitude towards Ray Kurzweil and brain enhancing supplements like OrthoMind. | ||||||||
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News Columnist would rather be cremated than frozen contributed by member on 2006-11-22 |
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| Not sure if J. SCOTT CHRISTIANSON writer for the Columbia Missouri Daily Tribune was just trying to fill space or what. "Perhaps my biggest worry with cryonics is that I don’t believe future generations will be interested in spending time and money to thaw out people left over from previous generations. Consider that after nearly four years of combat and nearly 3,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, two-thirds of Americans ages 18 to 24 still cannot find Iraq on a map. These are the people I would be counting on to correctly revive me? No thanks!" |
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Induced hypothermia used by US Military half the way to Cryonics contributed by member on 2006-11-18 |
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| Dr. Hasan Alam of Massachusetts General Hospital is doing research for the US Militiary on the use of induced hypothermia for wounded soldiers. In animal experiments Alam replaced the blood with chemicals similar to those used for organ transplant and then cooled the body down. "Alam and his team found that there was no discernible cognitive loss in the animals after the experiment. They ate, acted and learned at the same level as pre-operation. With his remarkable success in animal experiments, Alam says the science is now ready for clinical trials in humans." |
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