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Is brain death not the end yet?

Bioquark has launched the ReAnima project to explore the potential of biomedical technologies for "resuscitation" of the brain of people in a state of brain death.

26.04.2016
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The prospects for telemedicine are amazing

In the professional community, the initiative of the Ministry of Health is supported, but they are afraid that it will break against the harsh Russian realities.

20.04.2016
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The New Frankenstein

The whole project took more than 11 years. But the results were worth it: a fully modular body was created, for which there are many different configurations.

19.04.2016
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Are telomeres the most inaccurate biological clock?

The length of telomeres when assessing the probability of a person's death within 5 years is significantly inferior to chronological age and mobility, which calls into question the feasibility of invasive and expensive analyses.

08.04.2016
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Frostbitten brain

Restless cryonics filled the vessels of the brain with chemicals that fixed the neurons, cooled the brain to -130, and then warmed it. The result is modest: the authors received only a brain-like dummy.

11.02.2016
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What would Stanislavsky say about this?

Italian physician Sergio Canavero and his Chinese colleague Ren Xiaoting spoke about the results of unorthodox experiments on "gluing" the severed spinal cord in rodents and a complete head transplant in monkeys.

19.01.2016
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About eternal youth

Aubrey de Grey: My mission is to put all aspects of aging under the full control of medicine. So that people, no matter how long they live, feel mentally and physically how young adults feel.

10.12.2015
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George Church's sensational statement

At a conference dedicated to ethical and technological issues of genome editing, he expressed confidence that in five years modern advances in genetics will help reverse the process of human aging.

09.12.2015
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The British scientist stands his ground

In Moscow, within the framework of the Open Innovations Forum, Aubrey de Grey, a gerontologist, convinced that old age can be defeated, it remains only to raise $ 50 million and endure 25 years.

10.11.2015
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Brain mycosis in Alzheimer's disease

Obvious traces of fungal infections were found in the nervous tissue and vessels of the brain of those who died from Alzheimer's disease. Whether they are the cause of the disease or the donors of the biomaterial lived in conditions conducive to the development of fungal and other infectious diseases is still unknown.

21.10.2015
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The future is declassified

What awaits humanity in fifteen years? How can the latest technologies affect human life? Matthew Burrows, author of the book "The Future: Declassified. What will the world be like in 2030" tried to look into the future to answer these questions.

01.07.2015
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Telomerase does not cause cancer

The author ranks himself among the growing minority of researchers dealing with longevity issues who believe that telomerase is the most promising and fastest way to significantly increase human life expectancy.

15.05.2015
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Breakfast with Ray Kurzweil

Over a specially prepared breakfast, the inventor and futurist talks about his plans to live forever.

20.04.2015
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Transplant my head!

The first patient who volunteered to undergo a head transplant operation was Valery Spiridonov, a thirty-year-old programmer from Vladimir suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.

08.04.2015
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Will buckybombs find use in medicine?

Nanobombs made of fullerene C60 (buckyball) molecules, according to the developers, can become a deadly weapon in the fight against cancer, viruses and bacteria. However, to initiate an explosion, the "bakibomb" must be heated to 700 degrees…

12.03.2015
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The purpose of our life is the well–being of our microflora?

By "knocking out" aging individuals, the microflora (at least in part) created the demographic structure of Homo sapiens optimal for its own survival. But if earlier microbes killed old people, now, thanks to the achievements of civilization, they only reduce their quality of life.

19.12.2014
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Lithium to increase life expectancy?

High doses of lithium are toxic to the point of death, but populations that consume water with a naturally high lithium content are characterized not only by a lower probability of developing mental illness, but also by a longer life expectancy.

25.11.2014