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Life Extension Workshop in LA 11/16

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"Aubrey de Grey will be giving a Life Extension Workshop on Friday Nov
16th from 3pm to 5:30pm. Specifically, he will be giving an update on
SENS and the MPrize (more on that below).

Aubrey is a computer scientist, biomedical gerontologist, editor of
Rejuvenation Research and author the book "Ending Aging'..."
RSVP

[via Chuck Esterbrook on the BarCampLA mailing list]

Yes, you read that correctly: "Ending Aging"

Amazon lists it as #1 in some categories, including Physiology.

Location:
Embassy Suites LA - Int. Airport/South
1440 E. Imperial Ave, El Segundo, CA 90245
310-640-3600

*** To reserve a seat, forward this message to [email protected]
with your name and the names of any guests.


Adapted from the book description and Wikipedia pages:

MUST WE AGE?

A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one
of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic
manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold
forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total
control over our own biological aging.

Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we
will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process,
extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is
perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported
in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de
Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate
aging-derived debilitation and death entirely—technology that would
not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological
decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future—is now
within reach.

Aubrey has created a detailed plan called Strategies for Engineered
Negligible Senescence (SENS) which is aimed at preventing age-related
physical and cognitive decline. He is also the co-founder (with David
Gobel) and chief scientist of the Methuselah Foundation, a ...
nonprofit organization. A major activity of the Methuselah Foundation
is the Methuselah Mouse Prize, a prize designed to accelerate research
into effective life extension interventions by awarding monetary
prizes to researchers who extend the lifespan of mice to unprecedented
lengths.

Regarding this, de Grey stated in March 2005 "if we are to bring about
real regenerative therapies that will benefit not just future
generations, but those of us who are alive today, we must encourage
scientists to work on the problem of aging". The prize reached US$4.2
million in February 2007. de Grey believes that once dramatic life
extension of already middle-aged mice has been achieved, a large
amount of funding will be diverted to this kind of research, which
would accelerate progress in doing the same for humans.

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, pledged $3.5 Million to the
Methuselah Foundation for SENS research. Justin Bonomo, professional
poker player, has pledged 5% of his tournament winnings for SENS
research.

There is more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mprize

Again, it's on Friday Nov 16th from 3pm to 5:30pm.

*** To reserve a seat, forward this message to [email protected]
with your name and the names of any guests.


Hope to see some of you there,
-Chuck

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