Aging

Can We Live To 1000 Years Old ?

Aubrey de Grey, a pioneer of anti aging research has predicted a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under medical control within the next 25 years or so. And by then the first person to live for 1,000 years could already have been born. He also predicts the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born.

Currently we are seeing a an average of three months being added to life expectancy every year and its estimated there could be a million centenarians across the world by 2030. In 2010 there were just 44,000 centenarians. As medical technology advances this trend is only likely to accelerate and get to a point where the average increase to life expentacy per year becomes more than one year.

De Grey believes people will soon visit their doctors only for regular "maintenance," which will include gene therapies, stem cell therapies, immune stimulation and some other advanced medical techniques to help them keep in good shape. "And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today." Preventative geriatrics as he calls it, is where you periodically repair molecular and cellular damage before it gets to the level of abundance that is pathogenic.

Aubrey de Grey lives near Cambridge University where he won his doctorate in 2000 and is chief scientific officer of the non-profit California-based SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation, which he co-founded in 2009.

Source: SENS via Routers News Article 

Fraxel re:store®Dual Removes Precancerous Lesions

Solta Medical, maker of the fraxel laser treatment, has announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance of its Fraxel re:store®Dual for the treatment of actinic keratosis (AKs) which are a common precancerous skin condition caused by sun exposure on the face or other areas of the body.

In a six month clinical study of 21 people, there was an 83.5% average reduction of AK lesions using the Fraxel re:store Dual's 1927 nm wavelength. Treatments were shown to be effective both on and off the face, including the arms, hands and chest area. Each person underwent a series of two to four treatments with the Fraxel re:store Dual that were spaced two to four weeks apart. No adverse reactions occurred for any of the subjects. In addition, the study found improvement in skin texture and pigmentation following a Fraxel treatment.

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Needle Free Vaccines with the OBJ Patch

Last week the OBJ Patch listed in our products directory received a few hundred hits temporarily making it the most popular product in the directory. It has since been overtaken again by the 'Biotooth'. Product popularity in the directory is measured by number of hits.

The OBJ patch is able to deliver vaccines through the skin by the use of a disposable electronic patch. Anyone who has had to take toddlers to the doctors for vaccinations would appreciate the advantage of this. The OBJ home page even has a picture of a child with a smiley face patch on their arm. Although not available yet, it is close to commercialization with a few large companies including 3M testing it out.

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Aging Reversal with ReCyte Technology

BioTime, Inc. have announced the publication of a scientific paper titled "Spontaneous Reversal of Developmental Aging in Normal Human Cells Following Transcriptional Reprogramming." The article was released in the peer-reviewed journal Regenerative Medicine in advance of the print publication. It demostrates that aging of human cells can be reversed and may have significant implications for the development of new classes of cell-based therapies targeting age-related degenerative disease.

Using precise genetic modifications, normal human cells were induced to reverse both the "clock" of differentiation (the process by which an embryonic stem cell becomes the many specialized differentiated cell types of the body), and the "clock" of cellular aging (telomere length). As a result, aged differentiated cells became young stem cells capable of regeneration.

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Oldest Person In The World So Far

The oldest living person in the world died recently on Nov 26 2008. Edna Parker lived to the ripe old age of 115 and was known as a super centarian meaning anyone over 110. Born April 20th 1893, she became America's oldest person on Feb 14 2007 and became the world's oldest on Aug 13 2007. She never drank, never tried smoking and was leading an active life.

According to wikipedia, the oldest living person is now Gertrude Baines of the USA, who was born on 6 April 1894. She is the only verified surviving person born in 1894. Other than not liking the cold due to arthritis, Ms Baines is in reasonably good health for her age. The oldest living man is 113 year-old Tomoji Tanabe of Japan, born on 18 September 1895.

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