Doctor Terry Grossman, Ray Kurzweil’s doc, is being interviewed and the video will be carried on the Immortality Institute’s (IMMINST) USTREAM site here.
Check it out! Times are vague but I think it would be wise to tune in about 5-5:30 PM EST or about 10 PM GMT.
Cheers,
Ben
UPDATE So, as anyone who tuned in yesterday […]
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The regeneration of lost body parts has just moved from science fiction to U.S. military policy.
Yesterday the Department of Defense announced the creation of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which will go by the happy acronym AFIRM. According to DOD’s news service, AFIRM will “harness stem cell research and […]
Led by Matthew Rosen, a visiting scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian center, and Ronald Walsworth, a senior lecturer in physics at Harvard, the researchers built an MRI scanner that images how gas flows through the lungs and how much oxygen is being absorbed throughout lung tissue. They’ve used the system to study how lung function differs […]
An engineered material that can be injected into damaged spinal cords could help prevent scars and encourage damaged nerve fibers to grow.
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I just came across this site with many video interviews with various American Daoists. Included is Michael Winn of Healing Dao USA.
PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO FOR IT JOSH! YOU CAN DO IT!
Josh isn’t the first person to work in a lab to find a cure or treatment for his own disease. A cystic fibrosis victim named Jeff Pinard has done work on the genetics of his affliction. A Tulane medical student named Andy Martin studied a […]
“The [new genes] repaired the damage behind a rare form of blindness and a muscle wasting disease” & “while this might slow down ageing, it would not halt it completely, as mitochondria are just one of many factors involved in the ageing process.”
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Reading coverage of marijuana research in the mainstream press increases the risk of becoming misinformed by 50-300%. An analysis of the various scare stories on marijuana appearing in major papers lately. When facts are left out, others exaggerated to the point of sensationalism, truth and reality lose, and how many people are hurt in […]
