Healthy life extension is not 1 out of the 14 Grand Engineering Challenges…

…that can be realistically met, most of them early in this century according to the Committee on Grand Challenges for Engineering with members such as Larry Page, Dean Kamen, Craig Venter, Robert Langer and …lifestyle life extensionist, nanovisionary Ray Kurzweil. There is a challenge though called Engineer better medicines and the essay behind looks as if it had been hacked together by Kurzweil and Venter themselves during a sunny Californian Soy Beer Baby Boomer Beach Party. It is about personalized medicine in large and the only hint – I was able to find – to a recent discipline named regenerative medicine is:

Screenshot of the day: Proteomics apologizes to PubMed’s readership.

Last time I said: Although the paper was retracted from the online version of Proteomics, you can still make historical screenshots on the PubMed version.

Now the chance is over. But what is really funny: finally, PubMed ‘Related Links’ algorithm gives us the proper context of the Warda-Han-Mighty paper, just take a look at the first 2 related articles on the right:

Ferenczi and Winnicott: searching for a “missing link” (of the soul). Am J Psychoanal. 2007 Sep;67(3):221-34.

A Thomistic understanding of human death. Bioethics.2005 Feb;19(1):29-48.

I would have never thought that PubMed could be a source of such fun.