I attended the San Francisco Longevity meetup on Thursday night (extremely really helpful), additionally they have a sister group in New York Metropolis. Longevity NYC has a meetup this coming Tuesday, November fifteenth. Particulars right here:
Verify the group out to study extra at their web site right here:
Longevity SF on Twitter:
https://cellular.twitter.com/longevitysf
On the meetup I met Aaron King who is likely one of the individuals who is concentrated on the longevity facet of the Foresight group. For these unfamiliar with the Foresight institute they’re a small workforce that describe themselves as follows:
Foresight Institute is a analysis group and non-profit that helps the useful growth of high-impact applied sciences. Since our founding in 1987 on a imaginative and prescient of guiding highly effective applied sciences, we now have continued to evolve right into a many-armed group that focuses on a number of fields of science and know-how which can be too bold for legacy establishments to assist. From molecular nanotechnology, to brain-computer interfaces, area exploration, cryptocommerce, and AI, Foresight gathers main minds to advance analysis and speed up progress towards flourishing futures.
Foresight has some good assets on their web site that I feel folks right here could discover of curiosity.
A ton of excellent seminar movies at this hyperlink:
Aaron additionally confirmed me an attention-grabbing on-line map of the longevity / biotech / analysis area – what he known as a “TechTree”. A display seize at a excessive stage is right here, however you’ll be able to focus and get extra data on every space. I discovered it useful to have a look at to see how they divide up the “trade” or area.
One of many extra attention-grabbing segments of the market I used to be not conscious of was the world of “head transplants” (placing older heads onto youthful our bodies; kind of the younger blood strategy taken to the pure excessive). And sure – individuals are apparently severely taking a look at this.
To discover the Longevity TechTree your self go right here: Longevity Tech Tree – View-only
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Wow. Head transplantation is kind of arcane. There was a well-known lab that did it with monkeys efficiently. Besides they may not reconnect the spinal wire. They’d a bunch of paraplegic monkeys!
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