Monthly Archives: November 2010

A longevity news story breaking today was widely published in the world press.  Some of the 123 headlines listed on Google are Ageing Process “reversed” in mice, Die hard: Scientists reverse aging in mice,  Scientists unlock secret of eternal youth,  Secret … Continue reading →

Having reliable sets of predictive biomarkers for diseases is at the heart of a new emerging paradigm for medicine, a paradigm I have called Personalized Predictive Preventative Participatory Medicine (PPPPM).  See the blog entries  Harnessing the engines of finance and … Continue reading →

Press releases and resulting newspaper articles about biomedical research can be misleading, even when they are from the most respectable institutions.  The problem is most often with what they leave out.  By ignoring a whole stream of prior research by … Continue reading →

Many interesting studies have been conducted in the field of sleep medicine. You can check out the journal Sleep Medicine and the website of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. However, the exact roles of sleep and the relationship of … Continue reading →

Whether a variant of the longevity proposal in the recent blog post Closing the loop in the stem cell supply chain – presented graphically will come to fruition will depend critically on research progress related to pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) … Continue reading →

Of the hundreds of publications in the last year relating to stem cells not already reviewed in earlier blog entries, I have selected a few that are particularly interesting for inclusion here.  I start out with three publications that appeared … Continue reading →

This dialog is focused on how rapid social evolution is  driving biological evolution and how the result is increasing longevity in advanced countries.  I sent Marios* an e-mail with the paragraphs marked VG which appear in this blue font.  And … Continue reading →

Robert Pappas is an independent filmmaker currently in the final stage of updating his film To Age or Not to Age. This is a film on longevity research featuring interviews with prominent researchers. Two days ago, Robert asked me to … Continue reading →

I have recently been finding and removing blog comments that are irrelevant to the posting they are associated with and that appear to be thinly-disguised advertising for specific commercial health products or services.  Further, those comments say nothing about the … Continue reading →