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2014 Blog Posts

Live Forever Club blog archive - life extension, medical technology and survival.

Perfect storm for gene therapy?
30-Jan-2014

Perfect storm for gene therapy?

Genome editing combined with stem cell generation could produce life extending therapies when boosted with big data

Who wants to live forever?
29-Sep-2014

Who wants to live forever?

Even people with a good life don't see the point of it going on indefinitely

A worrying mystery of Ebola infection
07-Oct-2014

A worrying mystery of Ebola infection

If Ebola mutates to become airborne things could get very serious, very quickly

Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens
21-Oct-2014

Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens

1 in 50 people are over 85 today - that's 20x the percentage who reached that age in 1881

Why I've just voted for DMI in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE
29-Oct-2014

Why I've just voted for DMI in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE

Adrian reviews a range of finalists trying to track cancer, blood oxygenation, retinal scans, and cardiac health

NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases
03-Nov-2014

NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases

What to do when quality-adjusted life years could mean many, many years?

Too much of a good thing? More than a glass of milk increases chance of death
20-Nov-2014

Too much of a good thing? More than a glass of milk increases chance of death

Milk may be good for the bones, but its D-galactose content might accelerate ageing

Kurzweil v Hawking - good AI v bad AI
04-Dec-2014

Kurzweil v Hawking - good AI v bad AI

Better to err on the side of caution when it comes to artificial intelligence development

Eat or recharge? Soylent doesn’t go far enough for me
16-Dec-2014

Eat or recharge? Soylent doesn’t go far enough for me

Could an artificial stomach provide all of our energy and nutritional needs in the future?

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