 10-20 years
64% (7 votes)
more than 20 years
36% (4 votes)
Total votes: 11
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Physical Immortality is a state of life that allows a person to avoid death and maintain conscious thought, though it can mean the unending existence of a person from a physical source other than organic life, such as a computer. Active pursuit of physical imortality can either be based on scientific trends, such as mind uploading, cryonics, predictions of an impending technological singularity. |
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Do you Twitter?
Seems everyone is these days. If you have a Twitter account, be sure to follow us: @immortek
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Non-smokers live longer and have less cardiovascular disease than those who smoke, according to a 30-year follow-up study of 54,000 men and women in Norway. Smoking, say the investigators, is "strongly" related to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality from various causes. |
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Overpopulation? It is not a problem!
The most frequently heard objection to using science to make people live longer is the issue of overpopulation. Our world is totally filled up as it is, right? Well, maybe. Let’s take pause for a moment, and look at a few numbers. |
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Limbs Saved By Menstrual Blood Stem Cells
Cells obtained from menstrual blood, termed 'endometrial regenerative cells' (ERCs) are capable of restoring blood flow in an animal model of advanced peripheral artery disease. A new study demonstrates that when circulation-blocked mice were treated with ERC injections, circulation and functionality were restored.
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Transfusion breakthrough as human blood grown from stem cellsVials of human blood have been grown from embryonic stem cells for the first time during research that promises to provide an almost limitless supply suitable for transfusion into any patient. |
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Historical Steps Toward the Scientific Conquest of Death
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Findings help identify mechanism of age-related memory deficits, highlight the importance of sleep for memoryAging impairs the consolidation of memories during sleep, a process important in converting new memories into long-term ones, according to new animal research in the July 30 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings shed light on normal memory mechanisms and how they are disrupted by aging. |
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While we spend enormous amounts of money researching the diseases of aging we're neglecting the very real possibility of slowing down the aging process itself.
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