The Flowing of the Dao

Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications. A free symposium sponsored by the Methuselah Foundation taking place at UCLA June 27, 2008. Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches. A scientific conference on anti-aging medicine on June 28 and 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Delaying the Degenerative Disease of Aging from Jeriaska on Vimeo.

Bruce Ames is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is the inventor of the Ames test, a system for easily and cheaply testing the mutagenicity of compounds. His research focuses on cancer and aging and he has authored over 500 scientific publications. He is among the few hundred most-cited scientists in all fields.

Ames’ current research includes identifying agents that delay the mitochondrial decay of aging, understanding the role of mitochondrial decay in aging, particularly in the brain, optimizing micronutrient intakes in the population to prevent disease, malnutrition, and obesity. He is also interested in mutagens as they relate to cancer prevention and aging. He is a recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1985, the Japan Prize in 1997, the National Medal of Science in 1998 and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal in 2004, among many others.

He was born and raised in New York City. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. His undergraduate studies were at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his graduate studies were completed at the California Institute of Technology.

Clinical signs of artificial aging of young mice in our experiments are associated with a characteristic drop in the number of cerebrocortical neurons. This indicates that accumulation of cytoproliferative factor in aging mice is the cause, but not a result of brain aging and death.

http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/Artificial_aging_of_mice.pdf

C.A.R’s tele-FUNraising operation is now set up. After checking with the FTC we are all clear to start campaigning on the phone: raising the awareness level on the absolute necessity of aging research and raising money for research itself.

We have a good system set up for volunteers to help and it’s easy for anyone to become part of the solution. Let’s face it: we can’t all be doing the fancy glamorous research or the TV interviews, but we can all pick up our phone and talk to a few people, when our schedule allows it.

Don’t wait to be suffering of age related diseases to connect with the campaign and take action. Join us now: http://www.healthyyears.org/volunteers.php

Attila Chordash posts …

This is how my Macbook saw Aubrey de Grey’s talk exactly 1 week ago on the AGING preconference at UCLA.

http://pimm.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/aubrey-de-grey-on-aging-2008-the-disease-the-cure-and-the-implications/