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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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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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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Cryogenic suspension is about the idea of freezing a person at the time of death to preserve (as well as possible) the physical body and mainly the brain. The hope is that future technology will enable the patient to be revived and their cause of death treated.

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