I haven’t done any strict fact checking but as far as I know science.tv’s new blog, called simply Science.tv Blog is the first web log launched by a science video sharing site in order to communicate and explore. (Usually I am accustomed to the other way in the world of online video: blog first, vlog or tv second, think about BoingBoing or Make.)
Matt Thurling, science.tv founder has some valuable considerations on how to catch (video) school kids conducting genuine experiments attempting to answer their very own hypotheses be it on Nintendo or ants.
Embedded on the slideshow below 9 slides of Michael Rose’s presentation called Slowing and then stopping aging on the SENS3 conference on the 9th of September. (Photos made by me with the iPhone.) Rose’s argument was: Aubrey de Grey’s original SENS proposal is based on the non-evolutionary assumption that aging is a process of accumulating damage, while according to the evolutionary SENS version of Rose aging should be interpreted as a loss of adaption. The script is: breed mice with delayed reproduction over multiple generations (let evolution by natural selection give us the answer of how to build a long-lived animal), and then reverse engineer this answer to develop anti-aging therapies for genetically unaltered humans. The experimental basis of this proposal: Rose’s own ancient experiments with fruit flies (sorry, no reference yet, that’s what I’ve heard) showed that there is a plateau in mortality rates after many generations of breeded Drosophilas with delayed reproduction time which leads to the cessation of the aging process.
Does this method sound as one that gives us a complete engineering toolkit to achieve robust healthy life extension for early generations of humans under the reverse engineered treatment?
One particular advantage of being an experimental scientist is that you are getting nicely packed gifts all the time as you are constantly ordering the kits and material that you need for you experiments. For instance I’ve just got this cute, childishly designed Micro BCA Protein Assay Kit developed for measuring protein concentration in the small range of 0.5-20 µg/ml.
