The Methuselah Foundation Blog

December 23, 2008

Biomedical Remediation at the Biodesign Insititute

You'll find a good video and article on progress in biomedical remediation at the Biodesign Insititute, a partner of the Methuselah Foundation. Biomedical remediation is the platform for the Methuselah Foundation's LysoSENS project: a search for bacterial enzymes that can safely degrade the damaging waste products of metabolism that build up in our cells as we age.

Research quest for the fountain of youth:

The same principles that a Biodesign Institute research team has successfully applied to remove harmful contaminants from the environment may one day allow people to clean up the gunk from their bodies - and reverse the effects of aging. The Biodesign Institute, along with partner, the Methuselah Foundation, is working to vanquish age-related disease by making old cells feel younger.

"The mainstream approach to curing aging diseases is to delay them a little bit, which is great for pharmaceutical sales, but not so good for fixing people," said John Schloendorn, a Molecular and Cellular Biology Ph.D. student who works in the lab of Dr. Bruce Rittmann, director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Environmental Biotechnology. "What's different about the Methuselah Foundation is that their approach is to directly repair the damage that the passage of time does to our bodies and eventually causes disease."

Posted by Reason at 04:56 PM |

December 14, 2008

Methuselah Foundation Newsletter, December 2008

Methuselah Foundation - Extending Healthy Human Life
BREAKING NEWS FROM METHUSELAH FOUNDATION
300 Monument Announced

IMAGINE LIVING 120 HEALTHY YEARS.

At no other time in human history has there been the possibility of a genuine science-based alternative to aging. Today, scientists are close to knowing the causes of aging. They are on the verge of knowing how to stop these causes before they begin to do damage and, even more importantly, how to reverse them.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MONUMENT...
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FEATURED ARTICLE
Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative

The Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative (MFURI) is a student-focused research and development program created by the Methuselah Foundation. Since its establishment this past summer, the program has expanded to include a small staff and a multitude of student research projects.

Johan Sjöberg is an undergraduate student studying in Sweden who is currently enrolled in MFURI. “I think working with MFURI is a great way for aspiring biogerontologists and aging researchers to prepare for the future...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE...

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FEATURED ARTICLE
OncoSENSE And The Cure For Cancer

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death and thus one of the key targets of SENS. Our approach aims to tackle cancer by making it impossible for tumor cells to become immortal, rendering them harmless...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE...
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NEWSWATCH - FUTURE TRENDS IN AGING RESEARCH
An Interesting Exchange

With our focus on the defeat of degenerative aging here at Methuselah Foundation, we receive all sorts of email from all sorts of people, as you might imagine. Michael Rae, Aubrey de Grey's research assistant, answers much of the mailbag, but all the volunteers chime in from time to time. Here is an email from al young fellow and the response from our CEO and co-founder Dave Gobel that we felt was worth sharing...

READ THE BLOG POST...
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION: FROM THE FORUMS
Overpopulation Revisited

Accidental death constitutes approximately 80,000 deaths per year in the United States, which reduces the live birth rate in our calculations by a mere 2%, and is negligible for our current purposes. It should be noted that these calculations are roughly based, and are based on full working age-ending therapies by 2050, and do not take into account birthrate reduction of 2% every year over the course of time. I suspect that certain allowances will be made for particular individuals to produce more children, thus the 2% is entirely negligible because it will be distributed to the population.

READ THE POST AND JOIN THE CONVERSATION...
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FEATURED ARTICLE
Explore The New Methuselah Foundation Website!

We feel it's important to make the message of Methuselah Foundation an interactive story experience. For example, as the media first plays on the new homepage, we want you to see for yourself why the therapies we are developing are global; without age, race, sex, or socio-economic barriers.

We also wanted you to meet our foundation heroes. In the SENS video module on the homepage, you are not only greeted by Aubrey, but you get a chance to hear about the pioneering work that each researcher is doing in their own voice.

EXPLORE THE NEW WEBSITE...

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Featured Testimonial

Think what we could accomplish if we didn't lose our best and brightest to the terrible disease called aging. On a personal level, we love life and cannot bear the thought of missing out on all the wonderful things still to come in this world. We are proud to support the Methuselah Foundation in this noble quest.

The Royal-Gordon Family

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Foundation Profile:
David Gobel
David Gobel


David Gobel is Chief Executive Officer of the Methuselah Fund. He founded the original non-profit in 2000, which became the Methuselah Foundation in an effort to reverse or preempt the damage of aging and the unimaginable suffering it continues to inflict. He is voraciously curious, a serial entrepreneur, an unrepentant do-gooder, and a technology visionary who has conceived many breakthrough technologies and then gone on to found or co-found private and venture capital backed companies and non-profits built for the purpose of delivering those same technologies.

FIND OUT WHY DAVID STARTED METHUSELAH FOUNDATION

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Join The


Join a unique group who believe we must push harder for real anti-aging medicine.

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Posted by Reason at 03:09 PM |

December 11, 2008

The New Methuselah Foundation Website Launches

To Friends and Supporters of the Methuselah Foundation,

We are very excited to announce a new chapter in the future of the Methuselah Foundation, and in our collective efforts to fight aging. Today we launched a new website, Mfoundation.org, that will serve as a platform for the groundbreaking research and ideas generated from the Methuselah Foundation. Visitors to MFoundation.org will be able to interact with the Foundation's pioneering researchers, and learn about the work they are doing to better understand and reduce the degenerative effects of aging.

In other Methuselah Foundation news, we are announcing the creation of the 300 Monument, a monument dedicated to our visionary donors who are supporting, and who will continue to support the Methuselah Foundation's fight for longer, healthier human lifespans. For $1,000 a year, for 25 years, which amounts to $85 a month or $2.75 a day, committed donors will be immortalized on the monument.

We are at a critical juncture in our fundraising efforts. We thank you for your continued support, and encourage you to explore our dynamic new website and our vision for the 300 Monument.

You can also find us on Facebook.

Be a part of the solution at www.MFoundation.org

Yours,
The Methuselah Foundation Team

Posted by Reason at 12:26 AM |


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