http://discovery-health.orly-owl.org Health Insurance Lead Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:32:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might recall the recently voiced suggestion that it's something of an accident of history that the cryonics movement is the cryonics movement versus the plastination movement. Plastination is plausibly just as good a way of preserving the fine structure of the brain into a future where a patient can ... http://discovery-health.orly-owl.org/806-plastinate-everyone.html If you've been following along for the past couple of years, you'll recall that one important part of aging is the build-up of damaging biochemicals both within and between our cells. These by-products of metabolism eventually grow to a level at which they greatly interfere with the functioning of our ... http://discovery-health.orly-owl.org/807-the-hypoxic-response-versus-cellular-aggregates.html A safe technology platform to allow destruction and recreation of our immune systems would offer a lot of promise for addressing issues that arise in the aging immune system.One main reason your immune system fails with age appears to be that chronic infections by the likes of cytomegalovirus (CMV) cause ... http://discovery-health.orly-owl.org/808-following-up-on-rebooted-immune-systems.html The latest Hourglass blog carnival on the biology of aging and longevity science is over at psique, and closes with an interesting historical quote:~These bodies which now we wear belong to the lower animals; our minds have already outgrown them; already we look upon them with contempt. A time will ... http://discovery-health.orly-owl.org/809-hourglass-ix-at-psique.html You might recall that the gene CLK-1 can influence longevity in a range of species:CLK-1 - or clock-1 - is a gene that affects lifespan, most likely through its influence on mitochondrial activity. It's the standard story, or at least appears to be: anything that can lower the rate at ... http://discovery-health.orly-owl.org/810-more-on-clk-1-and-the-retrograde-response.html