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Aging as a disease
Most mainstream medical organizations and practitioners do not consider aging to be a disease. David Sinclair says: "I don't see aging as a disease, but as a collection of quite predictable diseases c ...
2014-2-22 15:29
Ethics and politics of life extension
Though many scientists state that life extension and radical life extension are possible, there are still no international or national programs focused on radical life extension. There are political f ...
2014-2-22 15:29
History of life extension and the life extension movement
In 1970, the American Aging Association was formed under the impetus of Denham Harman, originator of the free radical theory of aging. Harman wanted an organization of biogerontologists that was devot ...
2014-2-22 15:29
Mind uploading
One hypothetical future strategy that, as some suggest, "eliminates" the complications related to a physical body, involves the copying or transferring of a conscious mind from a biological brain to a ...
2014-2-22 15:28
Reversal of informational entropy
According to some lines of thinking, the ageing process is routed into a basic reduction of biological complexity, and thus loss of information. In order to reverse this loss, gerontologist Marios Kyr ...
2014-2-22 15:28
Fooling genes
In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins describes an approach to life-extension that involves "fooling genes" into thinking the body is young. Dawkins attributes inspiration for this idea to Peter Medawa ...
2014-2-22 15:28
Genetic modification
Gene therapy, in which artificial genes are integrated with an organism to replace mutated or otherwise deficient genes, has been proposed as a future strategy to prevent aging. Targeting catalase to ...
2014-2-22 15:28
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)
Another proposed life extension technology would combine existing and predicted future biochemical and genetic techniques. SENS proposes that rejuvenation may be obtained by removing aging damage via ...
2014-2-22 15:27
Cryonics
or cryonicists (advocates of cryopreservation), storing the body at low temperatures after death may provide an "ambulance" into a future in which advanced medical technologies may allow resuscitation ...
2014-2-22 15:27
Cloning and body part replacement
Some life extensionists suggest that therapeutic cloning and stem cell research could one day provide a way to generate cells, body parts, or even entire bodies (generally referred to as reproductive ...
2014-2-22 15:27
Nanotechnology
Future advances in nanomedicine could give rise to life extension through the repair of many processes thought to be responsible for aging. K. Eric Drexler, one of the founders of nanotechnology, post ...
2014-2-22 15:27
Anti-aging drugs
There are a number of drugs intended to slow the aging process currently being researched. One type of research is related to the observed effects a calorie restriction diet, which has been shown to e ...
2014-2-22 15:26
Consumer motivations for using anti-aging products
Research by Sobh and Martin (2011) suggests that people buy anti-aging products to obtain a hoped-for self (e.g., keeping a youthful skin) or to avoid a feared-self (e.g., looking old). The research s ...
2014-2-22 15:26
Ethics and politics of anti-aging nutritional ..
Ethics and politics of anti-aging nutritional supplementation and medicinePolitics relevant to the substances of life extension pertain mostly to communications and availability.In the United States, ...
2014-2-22 15:26
Scientific controversy regarding anti-aging nutritional ...
Scientific controversy regarding anti-aging nutritional supplementation and medicineSome critics dispute the portrayal of aging as a disease. For example, Leonard Hayflick, who determined that fibrobl ...
2014-2-22 15:25
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