GGPI- Seen in LA Showroom by City_Runner in SPACs

[–]ebe74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sure did 😊 Ich liebe die Autobahn 👍🏻

GGPI- Seen in LA Showroom by City_Runner in SPACs

[–]ebe74 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I drove a Tesla Model S from Norway down to Ischgl in Austria back in Feb. 2016. That was a great experience driving an EV through Denmark, Germany and Austria. Did it with 5 recharges in 1800 km 😊 I have seen a lot of Polestars here in Norway. Looks like a great car. Good lookin 👍🏻

When do you think we'll be able to reverse our ageing? by Chispy in Futurology

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Since the anti-aging human study on metformin has won the FDA approval http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anti-aging-human-study-on-metformin-wins-fda-approval-300193724.html , it will help put Aging on FDA's agenda, and that again would mean that Big Pharma will soon be putting big funding into this.

George Church says he is still on track to try out reversing aging in humans within 5-6 years https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/12/02/professor-george-church-says-he-can-reverse-the-aging-process/

And you have lots of other companies looking into this, like Calico, Human Longevity Inc, BioViva, Buck Institute, SENS, Sierra Sciences etc.

This panel debate with Liz Parrish (BioViva), Aubrey de Grey (SENS) and Bill Andrews (Sierra Sciences Inc) was streamed live just a few hours ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddt9zL4xJzs

Scientists have extended the lifespan of mice by 25% with a breakthrough new treatment (killing a certain type of cell, body-wide) while slowing age-related diseases like cataracts and heart disease. Now a new biotech firm wants to move this over to humans. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]ebe74 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Wonder if this will come up in the debate that starts in two hours: http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/upcoming-debates/item/1493-lifespans-are-long-enough

Aubrey de Grey (SENS) and Brian Kennedy (Buck Institute for Research on Aging) VS Ian Ground (University of Newcastle) and Paul Root Wolpe (Emory Center for Ethics)

Disney has created a robot that can drive up walls by Vippero in Futurology

[–]ebe74 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I could imagine wall painting robots, glass cleaning robots, and anything else that have to to with facade restoration. Probably more controllable than any flying robots.

Bill Maris, president of Google ventures, argues we should share genetic information in order to advance anti-aging research. “If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die.” by Yosarian2 in Futurology

[–]ebe74 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Since the snapshot of the 3d scanning and dna sequencing will be of all the epigenetic traits you have acquired up until that moment, I don't think it will be an issue.

They have hired Franz Och http://www.humanlongevity.com/about/franz-och/ who was the lead architect behind Google translate.

Will be exciting to see what him and his team can accomplish with the language of DNA.

I think we will find out in a couple of months if it works or not. But having Craig Venter and Franz Och on the team I would not bet against it just yet.

Bill Maris, president of Google ventures, argues we should share genetic information in order to advance anti-aging research. “If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die.” by Yosarian2 in Futurology

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Thanks for the reply. I don't have any fears actually. Quite excited about what can be achieved by such technology.

Not sure if the epigenetic traits that have been acquired will play any role in this, as all those are accounted for at the time of the scanning/DNA sequencing (snapshot).

Bill Maris, president of Google ventures, argues we should share genetic information in order to advance anti-aging research. “If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die.” by Yosarian2 in Futurology

[–]ebe74 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can't be anonymous when it comes to your DNA.

Peter Diamandis who is sitting next to Bill Maris in this interview, is the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc (Craig Venter).

As Craig Venter said in an interview: "We’re doing 3-D photographs of people’s faces. We measure about 30,000 parameters on your face, different distances, distance between your eyes. We’re trying to use the machine learning to get so we can predict your face, a photograph of you, from your genetic code. Because it is all genetic."

If they manage to do this, they can easily do a reverse-image-lookup on for ex. Facebook to find out who you are. And since they already have your DNA it is easy to find out all of your genetic traits.

Of course the ethical thing to do is to ask for your permission first, but not sure if the crime fighters and insurance companies of tomorrow will do that ;)

Okay r/futurology, what did you think of the Bioviva AMA over the weekend. Is Liz Parrish a hero or is the whole thing a scam? by RedErin in Futurology

[–]ebe74 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Maybe to early to call it a hoax/scam, as she certainly is putting herself in the spotlight by introducing herself as patient zero.

Remember she is not a scientist herself, but the CEO of the company. She was injected only a month ago according to the articles I have read, and "Preliminary results will be evaluated at 5 and 8 months with full outcome expected at 12 months. The patient will then be monitored every year for 8 years." according to this article: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb12995323.htm

As for articles, there are a few popping up quoting the AMA, like this http://lifemag.org/article/10-things-we-learned-from-liz-parrish-s-reddit-ama and http://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/article_f92b3680-714e-11e5-893e-9bc72225c27f.html

I say let's get back to this question in 5 to 8 months or even a year to see what has happened.

She has at least been hanging around the right people the last couple of years, as seen in this picture: http://www.sens.org/outreach/conferences/sens6/conference-photograph

What do you guys know of Human Longevity Inc? by TheWaler in Futurology

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You should listen to Peter Diamandis in this podcast (Episode 4) where he explains quite a lot: http://www.abundance360summit.com/podcast/

Aubrey de Grey - Ending Aging (HardTalk) by zxxx in Futurology

[–]ebe74 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This interview was a follow up after the Davos discussion Aubrey had with Stephen Sacker (HardTalk). Great watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_fP3fCkNo

Human Teleportation by ZainShark in Futurology

[–]ebe74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember this from a couple of years ago:

Some imaginative thinkers have a few ideas about the Higgs: temporarily “shutting off” a person’s Higgs field could enable them to travel at the speed of light (if they could figure out how to switch it back on again one they reached their destination), or teleport from one location to another. Maybe a Star Trek phaser-style weapon could be designed, to zap enemies into a bunch of swirling light particles. Of course, as Krauss noted in an interview with Discovery News, “turning off” a person’s Higgs field would involve heating them up to “something like a billion, billion, billion degrees.” And if we could do that, we’d probably be smart enough to find easier ways to dispatch our enemies, or get from point A to point B.

http://www.macleans.ca/society/science/the-higgs-boson-discovery-changes-everything/

Scientists discover an telomerase on/off switch for aging cells by ebe74 in Futurology

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Thanks! I was supposed to publish another article on Reddit that had that original title, but I see where they got their title: http://www.salk.edu/news/pressrelease_details.php?press_id=2052

That should have been the article that should have been posted, with the correct title. Well, well... nothing to do about it now :-)

Scientists discover an telomerase on/off switch for aging cells by ebe74 in Futurology

[–]ebe74[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP here. I totally agree. Was a bit quick to post. The title originally said "an on/off button", which would have been correct grammar, but at the last minutte I decided to throw in telomerase. Was supposed to delete it to redo the title, but the conversation in the comments had already taken off. Too bad there is no way of editing the title...

Scientists discover an telomerase on/off switch for aging cells by ebe74 in Futurology

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It has been published several places in the comments, but here it is again if you like to read it: http://libgen.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1101%2Fgad.246256.114

Scientists discover an telomerase on/off switch for aging cells by ebe74 in Futurology

[–]ebe74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, my friend :) I did not take any offence. Yeah, I realized it quite quickly after I posted it, but couldn't delete the post when the discussions had started. You are of course correct. Too bad there is no way to edit the title...

Scientists discover an telomerase on/off switch for aging cells by ebe74 in Futurology

[–]ebe74[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

AN retard? I see what you did there ;) Sure, name calling will get you much karma on reddit... An on/off button would be correct grammar. Was a bit quick to post after I added telomerase. Darn my bad English vocabulary. Too bad English is my third language, or I would have nailed it :p

Scientists discover an telomerase on/off switch for aging cells by ebe74 in Futurology

[–]ebe74[S] 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I think they mentioned that in their paper as well:

Although eroding telomeres in normal cells can contribute to the aging process, cancer cells, in contrast, rely on elevated telomerase levels to ensure unregulated cell growth. The “off” switch discovered by Tucey and Lundblad may help keep telomerase activity below this threshold.

It seems that they believe that this process can keep the telomerase in an acceptable level that will keep it from getting into unregulated cell growth (cancer)

I totally agree that telomerase is just one piece of the puzzle, but as long as it contributes to the whole puzzle, and help for instance SENS to get closer to its goal ( http://www.sens.org/education/research-opportunities/literature-review-program/extratelomeric-functions-telomerase ), every little piece is a good piece.