Tag: Aging Discussion Group

Aging Discussion Group meeting 10/8/24. Interleukin-11 inhibition extends lifespan in mice: how it works and the conclusions that can be drawn

The meeting notice:
Hi All,

Last meeting slides

Here is the link to our last meeting slides. Feel free to write with any questions.  As always, you can click the links I have included to find more information.

Location: Online (I will email you the morning of the meeting with the link).  As I am on a cruise ship ⅔ of the way to Hawaii I doubt anyone will be joining in person besides Kraig, who is traveling with us.

Overseas/local update:

Argentina

Valentina: I keep indexing aging discussion group lectures and adding the links articles to the meeting notice of this month (see below). I’ve been working  on it for over 11 hours.

Sri Lanka

Everyone in Sri Lanka has been working hard to find a hospital to do clinical aging trials.  We have been focused on Durdans hospital, but we are also considering several other hospitals in Sri Lanka, India and Philippines.

Dominican Republic

Kraig says there is considerable interest in the Dominican Republic with clinical resources at their disposal for research. Contact and organization to choose tasks is the next step to assemble the Dominican team.

United Kingdom

Dilani has been working to set up Merit Points for us.  This will be our way to track who gets a share of the XPrize in the event we win. 

Philippines

We had our 2nd (of 4?) meetings with the attorney to get the research company there set up.

United States

Progress is slow and a bit irregular in getting our paperwork finished for XPrize.  As a part of filling it out we have to list everyone involved, right now we have 20 people working on it (most are only part time though).  Anyone interested in helping out please let me know.  

We are thinking about offering a small number (1-2) Merit Points for attending these meetings.  I would like some feedback on this: are you interested?  Basically 1 Merit Point will be worth a very tiny fraction of the final prize (how much will depend on the number of Merit Points).

Things I read over the month that I found interesting:

Hope to ‘see’ you at the meeting!

Ray

Update spring 2020

Due to business constraints  that resulted from taking last summer (2019) off and taking a cruise around the world I have not had time to work on this much.  When we got home our rental vacancy rate was 30% and as a result I spent all winter working 60 hours a week.  Things were finally starting to get back to normal when COVID-19 hit.

I would have managed to do a lot of work on this during lockdown–except at the end of March I had a perforated appendix/appendicitis and then as soon as that had started to heal my incision got infected.  So the last month I have done little besides engage in one of my favorite hobbies: reading.  I kind of went overboard and read 46 books in the last month!

Now (end of April) I am finally starting to feel up to doing a little work.  So I started by ‘attending’ a virtual conference on aging: Longevity 2020 (https://www.longevity.technology/).  The conference started Monday and goes through May 1.  It was very well put together and I am really getting a lot of information from the 2.5 to 3 hours of presentation.  I have been getting about 18 pages of notes every day; the information presented is (as in most conferences) very dense.

Also this year I began a local Aging Discussion Group.  We held 2 meetings before COVID-19 prevented further meetings.  I hope to resume meetings as soon as it is safe for us to do so.  Most of the people who joined are older and so it is very important that getting together to learn about aging doesn’t shorten our lifespan by catching COVID-19!

I have complete notes from the first 2 meetings, which was really the same meeting with 2 different groups of people.  I really enjoyed these and hope I managed to present information the group will help them plan for a healthy life.  If you are local and interested in joining the group please get in touch.