Biological Immortality in Our Lifetime

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Wikipedia articles of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalit ... ted_topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_ageing

Isolated brain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White
The First Brain Transplant
Head Transplant Pt. 1
Monkey Business (Footage of head transplant)
A Living Decapitated Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPmTVIze ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... 0WlJ-_66Vs

Journal articles of interest:
2009 - Update on slow aging and negligible senescence–a mini-review
Emerging Area of Aging Research: Long‐Lived Animals with “Negligible Senescence”

Websites of interest:
http://www.azinet.com/aging/
- http://www.azinet.com/aging/aging_by_design.pdf
http://longevity-science.org/Mortality_ ... ation.html

Examples of stopping some aging processes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Greenberg

TED Talk - Mark Roth on Suspended Animation
- plant seeds can be in suspended animation for up to 250 million years
- human eggs are in suspended animation for up to 50 years
- Sea Monkeys are in suspended animation
- tells a story about a woman who was frozen for 7 hours and then came back to life
- 13 month old was frozen for hours and came back to life
- a 60-something woman who was found frozen and then came back to life
- he mentions that bringing the oxygen level down to 10ppm brings about suspended animation in worms and fish
- he mentions that making animals cold doesn't by itself save animals; they need to already be in suspended animation.
- he mentions the normal view that animals can't go below their basal metabolic rate; he went looking for a way to reduce humans below their BMR
- he gives a long anecdote about how he came to try using hydrogen sulfide to de-animate an animal
- he says he could hold a mouse for 6 hours in this state by giving it HS and making it cold
- he gives a supply & demand analogy for oxygen
- 70% reduction in damage in some animal experiment
- he says they're doing human trials

Mitchell and Webb - Immortal Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt6nwvGJiN8