Chair et Métal - L'Humanité augmentée

Leonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.

Is the "perfect human" a realistic goal? Well, a new scientific process promises to tweak selected bits of your DNA.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey of the of the SENS Research Foundation explains the OncoSENS approach to curing ALT-Cancer, the corresponding crowdunding campaig

While the US government still hasn’t shown much interest in supporting longevity research for its citizens, the life extension movement is dramatically expanding around the world.

High-throughput screening of a library of diverse drugs to find treatments for ‘ALT’ cancers, those which rely on Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres.

Dr. Michael Fossel on his book The Telomerase Revolution: the key to aging + longevity.

MIT biological engineers have devised a way to record complex histories in the DNA of human cells, allowing them to store and retrieve memories of past events. This system could help scientists study how cells differentiate during embryonic development; experience environmental conditions; and undergo genetic changes that lead to disease.

The First Step To An Artificial Womb

What the bleep is an exocortex and why should we care? An exocortex can be accurately described as an external neocortex. Many people may have heard of the exocortex from Ray Kurzweil. The idea of an exocortex is actually a bit older than Ray Kurzweil’s description. As We May Think was the title of an …

This newly developed bionic eye sends images directly to the brain to restore a tiny fraction of the pixels a normal eye can produce.

Est-ce que vous auriez imaginé faire tenir un cerveau « fonctionnel » dans des éprouvettes ? C'est justement ce qu'ont réussi à faire des scientifiques. Il

Avancée majeure de la génétique, la découverte des cellules souches a radicalement changé la compréhension du fonctionnement du corps humain. Ces cellules si particulières, à l'origine de nombreuses applications médicales, ont par exemple permis à des personnes dont les yeux avaient été brûlés par des produits chimiques de recouvrer la vue grâce à des transplantations.…

By 1990 we had a basic understanding of cell aging but the idea that telomeres might help us cure age-related disease was at best a cautiou

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Eidos Montreal and CNN join forces to make a presentation for the future of human augmentation à la Deus Ex! - Francesco Neo Amati for Serious Wonder

An international team of researchers working in a lab at Harvard University has taken a bold step towards the development of a bacteria with a completely rewritten genome. They describe their work in a paper published i

Many lower organisms retain the ability to regenerate tissue after injury. Humans share many genes with these organisms, but our capacity for regeneration is limited. Scientists are studying the genetics of these organisms to find out how regenerative mechanisms might be activated in humans. Researchers have identified common genetic regulators in three regenerative species, suggesting that they have been conserved by nature through evolution.

For more than a decade, University of Southern California neuro-engineer Theodore Berger has been working on an artificial hippocampus, an electronic aid for the part of the brain that scientists b…

In order to help solve problems associated with memory loss, a new startup called Kernel is aiming to create a brain prosthesis that mimics the way that neurons fire.

Qu'est-ce qui différencie le vieillissement d'une maladie, au fond ? Il en a toutes les caractéristiques ! Cette question un brin provocatrice est une invitation à nous interroger sur l'arbitraire de nos catégories.

Discoveries about the roles they play in appetite and metabolism could unlock new strategies against obesity

Researchers have just achieved a spectacular breakthrough in cancer research. They have developed new nanorobotic agents capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug with precision by specifically targeting the active cancerous cells of tumors.