Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system) from old mice, and forcing the production of young, potent cells to replace them. The findings were reported in the January 2011 issue …
Robert Freitas’ book chapter for The Future of Aging compilation is now online. Here we look at part of the monumental work. It is adapting SENS life extension with nanomedicine. Donate to IMM and support Robert Freitas * Phone 650-917-1120 with Visa/Mastercard info * Fax 650 917 1123 with same * Email [email protected] with same …
Illinois professor Nick Fang developed a two-dimensional acoustic cloak that makes objects in the center invisible to sonar and other ultrasound waves. “We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking about controlling sound waves by bending and twisting them in a designer space,” said Fang, who also is affiliated with the Beckman Institute …
1. Suncor (Canadian oilsands oil company) aims to increase production to 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2020 from 2010 production of about 575,000 boe per day. The company plans to increase oil sands production about 10% per year, with total volumes anticipated to increase 8% per year through the end of …
Today is blog action day and the topic is water Research Gaps and Barriers for Providing Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services (2009) Recent studies found that 30 percent of homes with indoor plumbing in Uzbekistan had no residual chlorine levels. The addition of home chlorination subsequently led to a 62 percent reduction in diarrheal …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. ProjectIcarus is the attempt to re-examine the Project Daedalus starship study of the 1970s in light of technological developments in the intervening years The Icarus team is looking at Uranus for mining helium-3. Getting processed helium-3 to orbit presenting perhaps the biggest technical hurdle. Double-walled …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A new approach to anchor teeth back in the jaw using stem cells has been developed and successfully tested in the laboratory for the first time by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The new strategy represents a potential major advance in the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Samsung is already hard at work on next-generation tablets that will run on Google’s upcoming Android 3.5 Honeycomb platform. Unlike Gingerbread, which is supposed to take Android 2.2 [also known as FroYo, short for Frozen Yoghurt] all the way up to version 3.0 and promises to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Computer Software GTx, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTXI) announced in June 2010 that Ostarine™ (GTx-024, formerly MK-2866) increased lean body mass and leg press strength in a head to head study evaluating Ostarine and another selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), MK-3984, in postmenopausal women. This was the third Ostarine clinical study that …
Researchers have created a molecule that blocks the activity of the muscle-limiting protein myostatin in mice. It can fully reverse the devastating muscle loss that often accompanies advanced cancer — and thereby increase the lifespan of animals with the disease. Instead of myostatin binding to its normal receptor and triggering muscle wastage, it is ‘mopped …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software John Tooby: Can discovering the design principles governing natural intelligence unleash breakthroughs in artificial intelligence? All the pieces are finally in place for realizing the Enlightenment project of a rigorous natural science of human nature, due to the recent maturation and integration of evolutionary biology, computer …