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The immune system of older people declines in reliability and efficiency with age, resulting in greater susceptibility to pathology as a consequence of inflammation, for example, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, autoreactivity and vaccine failure, as well as an increased vulnerability to infectious disease.

Morris Johnson isn’t your typical longevity researcher, if such a thing can be claimed to exist. Johnson doesn’t have the usual alphabet soup of accreditations following his name, but a childhood epiphany drives his interest in the mastery of human mortality.

Get involved with the Denigma Project, a “Collaborative Resource for Gerontology” and revolutionize aging research.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine are testing the first “brain pacemaker”, a device which provides for deep brain stimulation, for Alzheimer’s patients.

If you live in two or more societies simultaneously, and if you strengthen your presence within those societies, then you are much more likely to live significantly longer.

“Death” is actually a legal term as evidenced by the fact that the definition of death has changed substantially as technologies for measuring what is happening in the organism have evolved. Our definition of death will continue to change as technology advances.

Fundamentally, Transhumanism is about life — making it better, longer, and happier.  Unfortunately we live in a mostly malevolent, or at best indifferent, universe.

If someone asked me to describe the Transhumanists I know in one word, I would say “ambitious”. We have some pretty lofty goals- immortality, mind enhancement, uploading. But ambition isn’t always enough. We have to make tough decisions about money, relationships, and education, sacrificing more than most to accomplish our goals. To make those decisions, we need our brain functioning in tip-top shape, but a new study shows that you have less time to make the best of your brain than previously thought.

For those who think quantum mechanics is a bit on the woo side, ordinary reality may soon blossom into virtual realities that may make quantum theory look a bit mundane. These new technologies that create immersive virtual reality experiences, then, could be another cure for the immortal blues. Virtual reality could give infinite story lines and experiences to fill this inescapable void that critics of immortality say we face.

A series of activist events for radical life extension recently took place in Israel.

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.