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On this page our external news editor, Iain Inkster, highlights a range of news reports and articles of interest and relevance to SENS Foundation's mission.
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InnoCentive and SENS Foundation Seek Innovative Ideas to Help Reverse Age Related Illnesses
For SENSF's comments on the subject, see the lefthand news column on the homepage.
Singularity Summit 2010
From the summit website:
Moral, philosophical questions dog scientists' efforts to repair cells, clear body's garbage'
This article contains an interesting review of a new philosophical work centred mainly around the SENS effort.
I have not had a chance to read the book yet, but the descriptions of its content give me mixed feelings.
Firstly, it seems fairly well researched. The description of the SENS strategy in the book, which made its way into the reviews (e.g. the stuff about removing cellular garbage), suggests that the author is under no illusions about what the SENS approach is.
Read the original article at Istockanalyst (from Kansas City Star).
Open Science Summit 2010
From July 29-31 at Berkeley's I-House, longtime longevity advocate Joseph Jackson is hosting the Open Science Summit. This is the first conference to bring together the many entities working to transform the institutions and practices that comprise or science + innovation system. Much more information is available in his recent interview with h+ magazine.
Aubrey de Grey at How The Light Gets In
How The Light Gets In is a festival of philosophy and music, taking place this year in Hay-on-Wye from May 28th to June 6th. The event promises a remarkable line-up of leading thinkers mixed with cutting edge musicians and performers.
Dr. de Grey will participate in the panel session entitled "Mortality and Immortality", hosted in association with the Wellcome Trust's Identity Project.
UK Guardian on ethics of life extension
I don't like the tone of this article, which rants about immortality and then precipitates the same old tired and tawdry debate about wanting to 'live forever'. I feel it fails to treat the subject with the respect it deserves.
The truly relevant ethical question before us, concerning the ethics of life extension, is:
Given that everybody ages, for whose benefit do we age?
The FDA and Methuselah
This article explicitly describes the SENS approach right from the outset, contrasting it with former approaches. This is an encouraging development in the mainstream press coverage of SENS, which usually begins by introducing the prospect of extreme longevity, only mentioning the method parenthetically.
Reversal of the Developmental Aging of Normal Human Cells
"In the article, BioTime and its collaborators demonstrate the successful reversal of the developmental aging of normal human cells. "
Outside the Box with high profile speakers
Aubrey de Grey speaks at Business Exchange North East seminar
