Brains, Bots and Bodies

Press release from Lamar University
Technology innovation in the coming decade will be unlike anything the world has seen, and corporations, small businesses and individuals will have to paddle hard to catch this wave — or they might just be ripped asunder. So says Jonas Lamis, executive director of SciVestor (www.scivestor.com ), a research and [...]

Five minutes without oxygen is indeed fatal to brain cells, but the actual dying may take hours, or even days.
That the five-minute rule is not absolute has been known for a long time, and the exceptions seem to involve low temperatures. On Napoleon’s Russian campaign, his surgeon general noticed that wounded infantrymen, left on the [...]

A study at four hospitals, published last year by the University of California, showed a remarkable rate of success in treating sudden cardiac arrest with an approach that involved, among other things, a ‘cardioplegic’ blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation. Patients were put on a heart-lung bypass machine to [...]

The World In 2007 | Towards immortality
From the Economist Magazine…
More and more drugs developed to treat disease are turning out also to offer the potential to “enhance” the cognitive powers of healthy people, and to push human life expectancy much further, perhaps to 115 years and beyond.
and covered on the Accelerating Future blog.

Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of online payments system PayPal, Founder and Managing Member of Clarium Capital Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, and angel investor in social networking site Facebook, has announced his pledge of $3.5 Million to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by [...]