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New technologies that will allow us to live even longer will pay economic dividends

sonia — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:17:37 +0000

Here’s a link to an op-ed I wrote for a London-based financial newspaper on longevity and economics.

You The Owner’s Manual w/ Dr. Michael Roizen — Radio Show

sonia — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:49:40 +0000

I was interviewed about 100 Plus by Dr. Michael Roizen today. He is co-author of the book, You The Owner’s Manual (with Dr. Oz). Dr. Roizen knows his stuff, making the interview really enjoyable since all the questions were super-relevant. I believe the podcast will be up soon at this link.

Another tissue engineering success

sonia — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:42:48 +0000

A 30-year old man in Baltimore had his cancerous trachea taken out and replaced with one grown for him in the lab. Now, he has a second chance at life and his 4-year-old daughter will have her father around. Scientists like Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, director of the Advanced Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, are true heroes.

Here’s the full story in the New York Times.

100 Plus featured on John Stossel’s Fox News Program

sonia — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:44:55 +0000

Happy New year! In case you missed it, John Stossel hosted a fun series right before Christmas called “what a wonderful world” where he featured various authors and scientists, including me. Here’s a link to the video:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/index.html#/v/1343254393001/do-you-want-to-live-to-be-200/?playlist_id=87530

Arrison’s 100 Plus featured on the Today Show

sonia — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:44:43 +0000

Here’s the entire segment which also features Dr. Aubrey de Grey and Dr. Bill Andrews. (100 Plus bit is at the 2:18 mark)

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New gene therapy for hemophilia B

sonia — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:56:46 +0000

From the NYT:

Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting them with the correct form of a defective gene, a landmark achievement in the troubled field of gene therapy.

It’s worth pointing out that gene therapy hasn’t been “troubled” in the last few years, and instead, there have been some rather amazing successes. Some I detail in my book, 100 Plus, and here’s an example that was also covered by the NYT.

Upcoming documentary: “The Methuselah Generation: The Science of Living Forever”

sonia — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:10:22 +0000

Donate to the The Methuselah Generation documentary and get a signed copy of my book.

DNA: The next big hacking frontier

sonia — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:28:33 +0000

Vivek Wadhwa, who has just joined us at Singularity University, wrote this article for the Washington Post on hacking DNA. Much of his argument echos what I say in 100 Plus: “Just as the personal computer revolution brought information technology from corporate data centers to the masses, the biology revolution is personalizing science”

The Man Who Was “Cured” of HIV

sonia — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:34:01 +0000

Here’s a link to my recent interview with ‘Big Think’ where I mentioned Timothy Brown, the only man who has ever been cured of AIDS.

The age at which scientists produce their most valuable work has been increasing

sonia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:27:42 +0000

This is an interesting article from The Scientist. Here’s an excerpt:

According to economists Benjamin Jones and Bruce Weinberg, young scientists making groundbreaking contributions to their fields are becoming an endangered breed. In a study published November 7th in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they reported that the chances a Nobel Prize winner at the turn of the 21st century produced their winning work by the age 30 or even 40 is close to zero.

Their analysis of 525 Nobel Prize winners (182 in physics, 153 in chemistry, and 190 in medicine) between 1900 and 2008, revealed that while the mean age at which they did their Nobel-prize winning work was around 37 for the three fields in the early 20th century, they are now around 50, 46, and 45 for Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine, respectively.