Conference: “New Insights into Healthspan and Diseases of Aging: From Molecular to Functional Sene
There’s a Keystone Symposium on this subject Jan 31-Feb 5 2010: Aging can be defined as the gradual loss of the ability of the organism to maintain homeostasis. Our aim will be to focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which tissue and organ function deteriorate and homeostasis fails rather than on longevity itself, which has been the theme of previous Keystone Symposia meetings on aging. Work from a variety of models is recognizing that organisms, especially humans, are complicated systems in which interventions that extend lifespan might not necessarily block the aging and loss of function in specific organs or tissues and vice versa. Con

Sí se puede
Just to follow up on that last post asking you to help the SENS Foundation win $5000 — it worked! SENS came in first, and won the grand prize. The margins were pretty narrow — well below the number of people who visited the contest page from Ouroboros alone — so it can truly be said that every vote counted. Thanks to the readers of Ouroboros and everyone else who helped SENS over the top. The amount of money raised is, in the gra

Help raise $5000 for SENS – by leaving an online comment
The SENS Foundation (which organizes the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence conferences) is in the running for the $5000 grand prize in 3banana’s Share to Win event. The contest seeks to raise money “for causes serving unmet needs in health, education and environment.” And you can help. It’s pretty simple: All you have to do is leave a comment on this page. (The award goes to the cause with the most comments.) You can sign on

RIP for MFRTA?
A prominent scholar of the CLK-1 story has called the coroner on the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging (MFRTA). From Lapointe & Hekimi: When a theory of aging ages badly According to the widely acknowledged mitochondrial free radical theory of aging (MFRTA), the macromolecular damage that results from the production of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) during cellular respir

Sunday Funnies
(From the Perry Bible Fellowship. For the previous installment of Sunday Funnies, see here.)