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[rahein]

54 Scientists with credible positions have signed a letter calling for more AA research. They say it has been proved in enough animals that it should work in humans. Is there anything we can do here to help this effort?

http://cureaging.org/

To whom it may concern,

Aging has been slowed and healthy lifespan prolonged in many disparate animal models (C. elegans, Drosophila, Ames dwarf mice, etc.). Thus, assuming there are common fundamental mechanisms, it should also be possible to slow aging in humans.

Greater knowledge about aging should bring better management of the debilitating pathologies associated with aging, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Therapies targeted at the fundamental mechanisms of aging will be instrumental in counteracting these age-related pathologies.

Therefore, this letter is a call to action for greater funding and research into both the underlying mechanisms of aging and methods for its postponement. Such research may yield dividends far greater than equal efforts to combat the age-related diseases themselves. As the mechanisms of aging are increasingly understood, increasingly effective interventions can be developed that will help prolong the healthy and productive lifespans of a great many people.

Sincerely (54 Signatories),

[Live Forever]

Nice!

[123456]

I wish to say that I have the greatest respect for all you scientists and will always do who are involved in making the Disease Of Aging a thing of the past. Indeed, it is a powerful symbol to have so many intelligent and distinguished individuals as yourselves stand united against such a resilent enemy.

[simple]

Wow, let me get this clear, Im such an ASS, how is it now that DIabetes II, Cancer
and Cardiovascular Disease are related to old age???

[simple]

Oh I see, most old people die to consecuences of the above, but , are they truly age related?

[Bruce Klein]

Probably, the most leveraged way to support this CureAging letter is to do as has been done/suggested thus far... sharing the link with fellow blogs, perhaps also emailing and/or printing the page for friends/family.

As they say, never underestimate the power of a personal endorsement

[rahein]

I noticed on FightAging that they gave you some credit for this Bruce. What role did you play? Or did I just misunderstand the blog?

You might recognize the same hand at work here as for the Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics, and you'd be right. Kudos to Bruce Klein and the Immortality Institute volunteers for getting this on the road - may more signatures be forthcoming as pro-healthy life extension advocacy makes further inroads.

[reason]

Aha, pointing Glenn Reynolds at it produced results:

http://www.tcsdaily....aspx?id=030106B

That should net some traffic over the next couple of days.

[Bruce Klein]

I noticed on FightAging that they gave you some credit for this Bruce. What role did you play? Or did I just misunderstand the blog?

If ImmInst is responsible for both open letter sites the leadership should consider hosting them indefinitely, adding qualified signatories upon their consent (if that's not already the plan).

Thanks, Cosmos & rahein.

Both CryoLetter.org & CureAging.org letters were created by independent individuals as a stand alone enterprise. However, most of these individuals are also ImmInst Full Members, such that some discussions about the letters have been carried out in the ImmInst Full Member forums.

Saying it in a slightly different way, both CryoLetter.org & CureAging.org letters are not formally affiliated with the Immortality Institute, but it so happens that most of the people who created the letters are ImmInst members.

[Live Forever]

Aha, pointing Glenn Reynolds at it produced results:

http://www.tcsdaily....aspx?id=030106B

That should net some traffic over the next couple of days.

Thanks for the link

[rahein]

Thanks for clearing that up Bruce.

[JonesGuy]

Just thought that the OP should know that I derived value from the posting of this topic. I didn't know this page existed, and I think I can make use of it.

Regards,

[lightowl]

FYI

http://cureaging.org/ redirects to http://www.imminst.org/cureaging/ but http://www.cureaging.org/ does not. This should probably be fixed to support links back to the original letter.

etc.
http://www.tcsdaily....aspx?id=030106B

[Bruce Klein]

Thanks, lightowl... corrected.

[dnamechanic]

Today I was browsing at The Longevity Meme and found the cureaging link leads to advertisements, here:

http://www.cureaging.org/

This link appears a few times in locations at The Longevity Meme, and I have seen the same thing several other times in other life-extension related sites.

Bruce or anyone? What is the story on this link?

[Bruce Klein]

My host, RegisterFly, for curaging.org and cryoletter.org went defunct, and it became very hard for me to get the domains transfered.

Two options: 1) spend ~$100 that it would take to get the domain names back (required by new hosts) or 2) create new domain names, which would cost around $40/yr.

In the meantime, the letters are currently hosted here:

http://www.imminst.org/cureaging
http://www.imminst.org/cryonics_letter

[gavrilov]

Greetings,

A copy of this Letter is also available at:

http://longevity-sci...r-on-aging.html

Hope it helps,

-- Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D.
Website: http://longevity-science.org/
Blog: http://longevity-science.blogspot.com/
My books: http://longevity-sci....org/Books.html

[dnamechanic]

Thanks for the information, Bruce.

A copy of this Letter is also available at:

http://longevity-sci...r-on-aging.html

Thanks Dr. Gavrilov.

Maybe you can update the cureaging link referenced at the end of "your article" to direct to the link that Bruce mentioned above:

http://www.imminst.org/cureaging

[gavrilov]

Thanks for the information, Bruce.

A copy of this Letter is also available at:

http://longevity-sci...r-on-aging.html

Thanks Dr. Gavrilov.

Maybe you can update the cureaging link referenced at the end of "your article" to direct to the link that Bruce mentioned above:

http://www.imminst.org/cureaging

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Done. Thank you!