The SENSible Blog discusses the development of rejuvenation biotechnology around the world: progress being made in the field of longevity, the design of medical therapies to cure, reverse and prevent the diseases and disabilities of aging, and much more.

Our content is a blend of popular interest articles – labelled “Easy Reads”, and designed to require no specific background knowledge – as well as more detailed scientific commentaries, labelled as “In-Depth” and aimed towards readers with some grounding in the biological/medical sciences.

Easy Read

Aging, and the Cure of the Diseases of Aging

We’ve all heard the terminology. “Age-related disease.” “The diseases of aging.” “The diseases of old age.” But what do we mean by them? What is the connection between aging and heart disease, or cancer, or Alzheimer’s? And how is SENS Research Foundation targeting that connection to prevent and cure these diseases?

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In-Depth

Cell Reprogramming Leaps Ahead: First Transplant of Primate Induced Pluripotent Cell-Derived Neurons into Donor Brain

“Reprogramming” of adult differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells is an exciting method in biology that holds enormous promise for rejuvenation biotechnology. Now, for the first time, Dr. Su-Chun Zhang and coworkers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully generated neurons from reprogrammed nonhuman primate cells, transplanted them back into the same animal’s brain, and seen them successfully and cleanly integrate into the local tissue.

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Easy Read

Project: Break Aging Arteries Free

SENS Research Foundation has established a new research center at Cambridge University and a collaboration with scientists at Yale University. The mission: develop new therapies to repair a critical form of molecular damage that drives the slow stiffening of the arteries with age. Such rejuvenation biotechnologies could prevent such deadly and disabling diseases of aging as stroke and kidney disease.

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In-Depth

“Accelerated Aging:” Inspiration Beyond Equivocation

The preliminary results of a clinical trial for a disease of “premature aging” – Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) – are hopeful and inspiring. However, they cannot directly inform the development of rejuvenation biotechnologies; although the symptoms of HGPS are similar to those observed in aging, there is no evidence to suggest that the underlying mechanism is pathologically significant in those not afflicted with the disease.

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In-Depth

ShARM: The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes comes to Aging Research

Aging laboratory rodents are the foundation of our ability to study the degenerative aging process, and develop the rejuvenation biotechnologies that will arrest and reverse it. They’re also expensive, logistically intensive, and in short supply. A new UK initiative has been establish to greatly expand what we can learn from the aging animals in our collective care, and to get a fuller picture of aging and its deceleration and reversal than has hitherto been possible.

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