How to engineer immortality – the short course
What if the stem cells, on a much slower level, are also undergoing gradual genetic mutations? That is the invisible elephant in the room.
Edward
05/02/2016
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Category: age-related-diseases
Real patient experiences
Guaranteed basic income ain’t socialism- it’s free chips and bus vouchers
A guaranteed basic income is a desperate attempt by policy makers to invert and abandon ‘trickle down’ economics that has been on a roll for the last 30 years.
Edward
02/28/2016
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Biological Age is hard to measure – especially using only telomeres
The reason we cannot predict your age from telomeres is partially that the confidence intervals are so large.
Edward
01/28/2016
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Every New Year’s Guide to aging
You had one ‘perfect’ copy of DNA in your chromosomes when you were a single cell fertilized ege. Since then, each copy has made successive generations progressively worse
Edward
01/01/2016
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Promising Alzheimer’s therapy suggests alternative disease origin
Perhaps the better disease paradigm is that the ongoing clearance of bad cells and waste is a result of the evolutionary elegant design of the blood-brain barrier, which keeps the younger, more capable bone marrow-derived immune cells from entering this space.
Edward
12/01/2015
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Live Interview: Telomerase gene therapy with Liz Parrish, CEO and Patient Zero
We chat with BioViva CEO Liz Parrish, who has heroically injected herself with a live virus meant to transfect her with two genes- telomerase and follistatin.
Edward
11/21/2015
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