Living To 150

A girl who had in the UK who had a third of her heart removed as a baby has made a full recovery.
Now 10 years old, a MRI scan can not even detect scar tissue anywhere on the heart.
Kirsty Collier was born with abnormal blood vessels which caused her serious heart problems [...]

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The issue of stem cell ethics has once more arisen; this time related to blood transfusions.
Britain is a leading nation in stem cell research, mainly because America was held back until recently by ex-President Bush’s funding restrictions, since reversed by President Obama.
New UK research now plans to have infection-free blood available for infusions within 3 [...]

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Longevity and anti-aging was not the only focus of this fascinating conference in San Hose, California, November 2008. It also covered nanotechnology, bio-technology and artificial intelligence.
300 people gathered together with interests in these main areas. An obvious connecting factor was: ‘thinking outside the box’.

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Scientists have used genetic engineering to create a new type of DNA by incorporating eight extra nucleotides – the ‘letters’ of DNA – into it. The eight ‘extras’ are slight modifications of the four nucleotides DNA usually consists of.
The new DNA is structured in a double helix, as DNA usually is.
The result of [...]

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Stem cell ethics have started to become easier after scientists have produced the first pluripotent cell from normal skin cells. A pluripotent cell is one which can differentiate into any type of body cell.
Previously, the only pluripotents cells were those from embryos, or from the umbilical cord of the newborn.
Embryonic Research Still Necessary
For now, [...]

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