Methuselah Foundation Newsletter, December 2008

Methuselah Foundation - Extending Healthy Human Life
BREAKING NEWS FROM METHUSELAH FOUNDATION
300 Monument Announced

IMAGINE LIVING 120 HEALTHY YEARS.

At no other time in human history has there been the possibility of a genuine science-based alternative to aging. Today, scientists are close to knowing the causes of aging. They are on the verge of knowing how to stop these causes before they begin to do damage and, even more importantly, how to reverse them.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MONUMENT…

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative

The Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative (MFURI) is a student-focused research and development program created by the Methuselah Foundation. Since its establishment this past summer, the program has expanded to include a small staff and a multitude of student research projects.

Johan Sjöberg is an undergraduate student studying in Sweden who is currently enrolled in MFURI. “I think working with MFURI is a great way for aspiring biogerontologists and aging researchers to prepare for the future…

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FEATURED ARTICLE
OncoSENSE And The Cure For Cancer

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death and thus one of the key targets of SENS. Our approach aims to tackle cancer by making it impossible for tumor cells to become immortal, rendering them harmless…

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NEWSWATCH – FUTURE TRENDS IN AGING RESEARCH
An Interesting Exchange

With our focus on the defeat of degenerative aging here at Methuselah Foundation, we receive all sorts of email from all sorts of people, as you might imagine. Michael Rae, Aubrey de Grey’s research assistant, answers much of the mailbag, but all the volunteers chime in from time to time. Here is an email from al young fellow and the response from our CEO and co-founder Dave Gobel that we felt was worth sharing…

READ THE BLOG POST…

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION: FROM THE FORUMS
Overpopulation Revisited

Accidental death constitutes approximately 80,000 deaths per year in the United States, which reduces the live birth rate in our calculations by a mere 2%, and is negligible for our current purposes. It should be noted that these calculations are roughly based, and are based on full working age-ending therapies by 2050, and do not take into account birthrate reduction of 2% every year over the course of time. I suspect that certain allowances will be made for particular individuals to produce more children, thus the 2% is entirely negligible because it will be distributed to the population.

READ THE POST AND JOIN THE CONVERSATION…

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Explore The New Methuselah Foundation Website!

We feel it’s important to make the message of Methuselah Foundation an interactive story experience. For example, as the media first plays on the new homepage, we want you to see for yourself why the therapies we are developing are global; without age, race, sex, or socio-economic barriers.

We also wanted you to meet our foundation heroes. In the SENS video module on the homepage, you are not only greeted by Aubrey, but you get a chance to hear about the pioneering work that each researcher is doing in their own voice.

EXPLORE THE NEW WEBSITE…

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Featured Testimonial

Think what we could accomplish if we didn’t lose our best and brightest to the terrible disease called aging. On a personal level, we love life and cannot bear the thought of missing out on all the wonderful things still to come in this world. We are proud to support the Methuselah Foundation in this noble quest.

The Royal-Gordon Family

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Foundation Profile:
David Gobel

David Gobel

David Gobel is Chief Executive Officer of the Methuselah Fund. He founded the original non-profit in 2000, which became the Methuselah Foundation in an effort to reverse or preempt the damage of aging and the unimaginable suffering it continues to inflict. He is voraciously curious, a serial entrepreneur, an unrepentant do-gooder, and a technology visionary who has conceived many breakthrough technologies and then gone on to found or co-found private and venture capital backed companies and non-profits built for the purpose of delivering those same technologies.

FIND OUT WHY DAVID STARTED METHUSELAH FOUNDATION

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