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Silicon Valley Investor Backs $1 Million Prize to End Death
On Tuesday a group of doctors, investors, and researchers announced the Palo Alto Longevity Prize. The latest attempt to crack the code of life, it will award $1 million to teams of scientists that demonstrate a reversal of the aging process in test animals.
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How 1,000-year lifespans could remake the economy
If you're reading this, it's possible you'll live for a few hundred years. Maybe even thousands. Even better: you could live those years at your peak physical state. At first glance, that's an absurd statement, going against the experience of all human history. However, Oxford University's Aubrey de Grey, a leading theoretician of aging, believes there is a 50 percent chance that someone alive today will live for 1,000 years.
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Sugary drinks could age the body as much as SMOKING
People who drank the amount of sugar found in of two cans of cola a day had DNA changes of cells 4.6 years older, say researchers at the University of California at San Francisco.
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You're Getting Dumber as You Age: Here's How to Slow the Decline
Aging alone causes us to lose brain cells and mental processing speed, but there are several other causes that you have more control over.
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Sugary soft drinks may be linked to accelerated DNA ageing – study
Research finds that people who reported drinking 350ml of fizzy drink per day had DNA changes typical of cells 4.6 years older
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The age of loneliness is killing us
For the most social of creatures, the mammalian bee, there’s no such thing now as society. This will be our downfall
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Aubrey de Grey: Longer lives won’t mean overpopulation
Aubrey de Grey wants to save lives. He wants to save as many as he possibly can, as soon as he can, and to do it he is going to fix ageing.
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On/Off switch for Aging Cells Discovered
Salk Institute researchers have discovered an on/off switch mechanism of how immortal cells maintain their ability to divide and regenerate cell population. Our bodies are composed to various types of cells that are constantly dividing to replenishing dying cells. Millions of your red blood cells die each day and your body needs to produce that same amount of red blood cells in order to maintain a healthy circulatory system.
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Why I Hope to Die at 75
An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly
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The $1 Million Race For The Cure To End Aging
The hypothesis is so absurd it seems as though it popped right off the pages of a science-fiction novel. Some scientists in Palo Alto are offering a $1 million prize to anyone who can end aging. “Based on the rapid rate of biomedical breakthroughs, we believe the question is not if we can crack the aging code, but when will it happen,” says director of the Palo Alto Longevity Prize Keith Powers.
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Scientists Find Fruit Fly Gene That May Delay Aging
Can activating a gene delay aging? A new study suggests it's possible.
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Google launches healthcare company Calico to extend life
The tech giant is a major investor in the California Life Co., or Calico, which will work on combating aging and disease.
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America is rapidly aging in a country built for the young
Although we seldom think about them this way, most American communities as they exist today were built for the spry and mobile. We've constructed millions of multi-story, single-family homes where the master bedroom is on the second floor, where the lawn outside requires weekly upkeep, where the mailbox is a stroll away.
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We Are Entering the Age of Alzheimer's
We will all be touched by the disease. How are we going to get through this?
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Seven Days And Nights In The World's Largest, Rowdiest Retirement Community
Boasting 100,000 residents over the age of 55, The Villages may be the fastest growing city in America. It’s a notorious boomtown for boomers who want to spend their golden years with access to 11 a.m. happy hours, thousands of activities, and no-strings-attached sex, all lorded over by one elusive billionaire.
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Another reason to admire the naked mole rat
The naked mole rat is the longest lived rodent species (>31 years). Unlike most mammals, they seem resistant to many age-associated ailments until much later in life, making them an exciting model of healthy aging. They are also resistant to the development of cancer as mentioned in this prior post.
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127-year-old said to be 'the oldest person to ever live'
When Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was born, the dust had still not settled on the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt was a little-known cowboy in the Dakotas, and no one had ever heard of radio, basketball or the airplane.
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Evidence from Eight Different Types of Studies Showing that Smaller Body Size is Related to Greater Longevity
Evidence was collected on eight different types of studies. For example, studies were found showing smaller body size is related to greater longevity within the same species. Other studies involved longevity in relation to caloric restriction, male-female height differences, and US ethnic group heights.
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Dead at noon: B.C. woman ends her life rather than suffer indignity of dementia
On Monday morning shortly before noon, Gillian Bennett dragged a foam mattress from her home on Bowen Island to one of her favourite spots on the grass, facing a craggy rock cliff, the place she had chosen to die. Bennett, who was 85 and in the early stages of dementia, chose to take her own life with a draught of good whiskey, a dose of Nembutal mixed with water and her husband of 60 years by her side.
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111-year-old Japanese becomes world's oldest man
A 111-year-old Japanese national has been certified as the world's oldest man. With this, Japan now boasts of having the world's oldest man and woman.
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