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TEDMED 2010 illustrated
Last week I arrived in Moscow from one of best and most inspiring conferences in the world – TEDMED. I’d love to share some pictures and exiting ideas I learned during those fascinating four days in...
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The New America Seminar on Radical Life Extension
Yesterday, the New American Foundation and Arizona State University with help from the IEET’s Sean Hays and with Aubrey de Grey as a main speaker, sponsored a conference on the future of life...
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Paradigm shift needed
Considering the success of the moon race, why isn’t there a comparable race against aging and its terrible diseases? Why is there so much opposition to promising developments such as therapeutic...
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Researchers Create ‘Immortal’ Adult Stem Cells
Researchers at the State University of Buffalo, New York have come up with a way to grow adult stem cells continuously, offering a way to speed development of regenerative therapies. The research...
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It’s Too Early to Be Joyful
U.S. scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston say they have partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice through a controllable telomerase gene – this led to new brain and...
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New hope for repairing Multiple Sclerosis damage
Researchers at Cambridge and Edinburgh have discovered a way for stem cells in the brain to regenerate myelin, which is needed to protect nerve fibers. The studies, performed on rats, are exciting...
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Stem cells used to grow functioning human intestine
Researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have recently made functional human intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells. The researchers project that this will push the...
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First tissue-engineered urethras grown from patients’ own cells
Surgeon Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center used lab-grown urethras to treat patients with damaged urinary tracts. Five boys aged 10 to 14 were involved in the study and it...
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Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
One of the basic processes happening during tissue regeneration is transformation of epithelial cells into mesenchymal and the other way around, mesenchymal cells into epithelial. The term is...
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Roadmap to Immortality – Regenerative Medicine
The Roadmap consists of 7 parts. This is the second one. Any comments and edits are more than welcome. Please, let me know what you think. Also, if you could suggest a way to publish it somewhere in a...
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