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The SENSible Blog discusses the development of rejuvenation biotechnology around the world: progress being made in the field of longevity, the design of medical therapies to cure, reverse and prevent the diseases and disabilities of aging, and much more.

Our content is a blend of popular interest articles – labelled “Easy Reads”, and designed to require no specific background knowledge – as well as more detailed scientific commentaries, labelled as “In-Depth” and aimed towards readers with some grounding in the biological/medical sciences.
Easy Read

Hyperbolic Hyperbaric “Age Reversal”

Lower-quality, clickbait-hungry media outlets love sensationalist claims, but one does expect better from the public relations department of an internationally-respected research university. And it was an easy jump from the already-overstated “In First, Aging Stopped in Humans” and “treatments can reverse two processes associated with aging and its illnesses” to saying that a treatment “can reverse

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Michael Rae September 8, 2021

Parabiosis: the Dilution Solution?

In heterochronic parabiosis, joining the circulatory systems of young and old mice causes the older animal to recover some features of youth. The effect has been widely assumed to be driven by pro-youth factors in younger blood, but an alternative hypothesis is possible: that the procedure is instead diluting pro-aging factors in the older partner.

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Michael Rae January 11, 2021
Easy Read

Double Your Impact

If you’ve invested in a donor-advised fund (DAF), you know that a key advantage of these funds is that they let you put charitable money aside when you have a jump in earnings, and watch for the best time and project to invest your money. We’re here (along with special guest Herbie Hancock) to tell you that now is that time!

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SRF October 6, 2020

COVID-19 and Aging

Why is the novel coronavirus so deadly to the elderly? We outline some of the ways in which aging is relevant to diseases like COVID-19 – and how our research may help render future viruses far less dangerous.

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SRF April 20, 2020
In-Depth

Smart Bombs Against Senescent Cells

Summary: A new nanotechnology enables the selective targeting of senescent cells; in mice, it dramatically improves an age-related lung disease, and makes cancer chemotherapy safer and more effective. Now the scientists behind it have a startup and are headed toward human testing.

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Michael Rae November 9, 2018

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