"All that we profess to do is but this, - to find out the secrets of the human frame; to know why the parts ossify and the blood stagnates, and to apply continual preventatives to the effort of time.  This is not magic; it is the art of medicine rightly understood.  In our order we hold most noble -, first, that knowledge which elevates the intellect; secondly, that which preserves the body.  But the mere art (extracted from the juices and simples) which recruits the animal vigour and arrests the progress of decay, or that more noble secret which I will only hint to thee at present, by which heat or calorific, as ye call it, being, as Heraclitus wisely taught, the primordial principle of life, can be made its perpectual renovator...." Zanoni, book IV, chapter II, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first published in 1842. Oroboros keyring - Spooky Cute Designs The idea of being able to achieve an immortal life is probably as old as human life itself.  Folklore and myt...

Can there be a more meaningless term than 'the over 60's'?  Yes, the term can be easily applied to any person above that age - but what does it actually tell us that is of much practical use? Age is no indicator of health or personality, of activity levels or financial stability.  Neither does an age grouping reveal a person's interests - unless it's the under 5's, when life mostly revolves around food, sleep, playing, parents and getting the hang of walking and talking.  While life for the 5's to 16's age group  tends to revolve around school, already more diversity is apparent.  The teenage world of angst, obsessions and first loves are, obviously, very different from, for example, a thirty year-old's ambitions to buy their own house. No-one would lump together everyone under the age of 40 as one social group having similar needs and interests.  So why do this with the over 60's? Most 60 year-olds are part of the work force and will rem...

Karen's clones built a perfect world - and then they created Karsen... Can we overcome the prejudice between natural-born people and regenerated clones?  The Karens is a satirical look at gender politics, DNA cloning and the human condition.  A short ebook, published today!  Available from Smashwords   (in various format options) and Amazon  Kindle (ASIN B007JASKRY).   

Joe Betts-LaCroix: scientist, inventor and entrepreneur in biophysics, geochemistry and electronics. Joe went to Harvard to study biophysics and got a degree in Environmental Geoscience, published quantum tunneling research (Science) from his fellowship at Caltech, did Ocean Chemistry and built robots at MIT, founded OQO which made the world's smallest PC (Guinness, 2006), filed and sold scores of patents in thermal engineering, user interfaces, electronics miniaturization, cloud computing, wireless power and tunable antennas. He  is now working to bring Halcyon Molecular to fruition. This video presents ideas of how life-extension holds the potential to radically alter our ways of living. Aging is a disease of the body which science is - right now - in the process of curing. Consider our current lives:- school, work, relationships, kids, rush to save for retirement, rush to fit in some fun stuff, then get ill and die - assuming you've managed to avoid fa...

There is an interesting interview with Aubrey de Grey, the biogerontologist and life-extension researcher, in The Manitoban here  which is worth reading.   

"Attending SA's 2100 conference will give you the opportunity to meet and get to know the revolutionaries who are making it possible for you to have an unprecedented chance at a radically extended healthy lifespan in a future of unlimited potential...  It will reveal the scientific foundations of cryonics, the latest advances in cryopreservation research, and the scientific basis for thinking that revival from cryopreservation is a realistic possibility."  - extract from SA's conference brochure. The conference will take place between the 20th and 22nd of May, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Resort at Fort Lauderdale in Florida, USA.  Speakers will include Steven B Harris (MD), Saul Kent, Max More (PhD), Stephen Valentine, Brian Wowk (PhD), Greg Fahy (PhD), and Ralph Merkle (PhD). The conference will be broadcast online, and will also be available on DVD from SA. Further information:  http://www.suspendedinc.com/

Allegedly aged 108 in 2009, Bernando LaPallo talks about his beliefs that his diet and lifestyle have enabled him to live longer than many.