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Kurzweil AI: How to erase bad memories and enhance good ones
Mice normally freeze in position as a response to fear, as shown here under control condition (center row): fear conditioning induces freezing behavior in response (recall) to exposure to the...
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Kurzweil AI: Cell-phone-radiation study finds associated brain and heart...
Glioma in rat brain (credit: Samuel Samnick et al./European Journal of Nuclear Medicine)A series of studies over two years with rodents exposed to radio frequency radiation (RFR) found low incidences...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: It’s Too Late—We’ve Already Taught AI to Be Racist and SexistJordan Pearson | Motherboard" 'To some extent, you can think about the AI as a human child,' Clune said. 'You don’t...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 30th 2016
FIGHT AGING! NEWSLETTERMay 30th 2016 Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical...
View ArticleSingularity Hub: Can Tracking Our Hormones Make Us Smarter With Money?
Let’s face it: most of us suck at managing money.According to a National Bureau of Economics working paper published this March, roughly three quarters of all American households carry some form of...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Telomere Length Suggested as the Mechanism Limiting Heart...
Evolution has left mammals with only a limited ability to regenerate heart tissue. Unlike very regenerative species such as salamanders or zebrafish, we lose most of our ability to heal the heart very...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Reviewing What is Known of FGF23 and Klotho Signaling in Aging
In past years researchers have demonstrated in animal studies that reduced levels of klotho can shorten life span while increased levels modestly extend life span. The underlying mechanisms are...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: The Use of Stem Cell Therapies to Treat Osteoarthritis
Today I'll point out a review paper that covers a few approaches to stem cell therapy in the context of treating osteoarthritis, a degenerative condition of the joints. Arguably the most demonstrably...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Nanoparticles to Target Atherosclerotic Plaques
This popular science article takes a look at efforts to develop nanoparticles capable of reducing the size of plaques in blood vessels produced by the processes of atherosclerosis. These plaques...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Use of a Fasting-Mimicking Diet to Attenuate Progression of...
Valter Longo's research group has for the past few years been gathering data in clinical trials on the effects of a short-term low-calorie diet that achieves enough of the benefits of fasting to be...
View ArticleKurzweil AI: FDA places hold on clinical trial of cancer treatment previously...
Juno Therapeutics, Inc. announced July 7 that it has received notice from the FDA that it has placed a clinical hold on an immune-cell cancer treatment known as the “ROCKET” trial, which was reported...
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Singularity Hub: Check Out This Dime-Sized Van Gogh Replica—It’s Made of DNA
DNA codes for life as we know it, but in recent years, scientists have discovered more uses for the molecule. Because DNA is foldable and “sticky,” they've begun making microscopic shapes called DNA...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Human Telomere Dynamics and the Balance Between Cancer and...
Today I'll point out a great open access paper on the evolution of human telomere dynamics: telomere length, how that length changes over time, and especially how it changes with aging. This makes a...
View ArticleKurzweil AI: Allen Brain Observatory launched
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of the Allen Brain Observatory.This is standardized survey of cellular-level activity in the mouse visual system. The goal is to...
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Kurzweil AI: Berkeley Lab scientists grow atomically thin transistors and...
This schematic shows the chemical assembly of two-dimensional crystals. Graphene is first etched into channels and the TMDC molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) begins to nucleate around the edges and within...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Education Correlates With Greater Longevity Consistently Over...
It is known that greater levels of education correlate with greater life expectancy, but the novelty in the research here is a matter of just how far back in history this correlation can be shown to...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Is Nuclear DNA Damage Responsible for Stem Cell Aging?
Researchers here cast doubt on nuclear DNA damage as a primary cause of decline in the stem cell population that is responsible for creating immune cells and blood cells. All cell populations...
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Singularity Hub: Carpool Apps Are on the Rise—Here’s How to Make Them Go Big
The cell phone ride hail apps like Uber and Lyft are now reporting great success with actual ride-sharing, under the names UberPool, LyftLines and Lyft Carpool. In addition, a whole new raft of apps to...
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View ArticleLongevity Meme: Recent Research on Aging and Regeneration in the Brain
Today I'll point out a brace of recent research materials, all of which focus on the aging brain. A great deal of aging research is focused on the effects of aging in the brain, in part driven by the...
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