Living To 150

A great step forward in nanotechnology has been made. A cog has been made out of atoms, and rotated clockwise and anti-clockwise.

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In June this year, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine approved $60m worth of funding to fund 15 grants aimed at moving some of the stunning results from stem cells from the lab to clinical practice.
The pace of progress with stem cell research means that results can progress from project conception to clinic use in [...]

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A small pilot study appears to show that lycopene – an antioxidant found in tomatoes – was protective against sunburn.
The subjects who received the lycopene supplement experienced a sunburn cell count six times lower than that of the placebo group. This is a significant benefit as sunburn causes DNA damage in cells.  Cancer [...]

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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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Google and Nasa are backing Ray Kurzweil in a new school for ‘futurists’. The school will be located around the corner from Google in Silicon Valley.
The school will pull together people and ideas from rapidly growing and advancing disciplines which are going to affect our future – including health and longevity – tremendously. These [...]

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Every year sees an increase in life expectancy, and this rate of increase is accelerating.
For example, in the UK. Between 1981-91. Life expectancy for a 65-year-old man increased by 1.6 months. During the following decade it increased by 1.8 months. Between 1995 and 2005 the increase was 2.3 months.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=168
Will You Be Alive In [...]

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The latest "Statins Beat Heart Attack" headlines would be wryly funny if they weren’t so tragic.
Short sighted journalists are fooled by profit-hungry drug companies who, as often seems to be the case, are driving partisan research chemists.
"Statins Reduce Heart Attacks"
This is not news, and it is not even surprising. Anything which reduces general inflammation [...]

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Scientists have ‘modified’ tomatoes to make them purple. They have done this by modifying them genetically such that they contain anthocyanins. 
Anthocyanins are a type of a class of substance called flavonoids, which show anti-oxidant activity. Flavonoids produce yellow, red or blue colouration in flowers and fruit. They also offer protection against insects and microbes. [...]

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Our DNA is unique to each individual. Our DNA can reveal various information about us which could be vital for our healthcare.
For example, once we know exactly the blueprint of our DNA, this will help us to know:

Which diseases we are prone to
Which nutrients we need more than the average person [...]

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