Comments on: See-through ‘MitoFish’ opens a new window on brain diseases

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:57:36 +0000

@Gorden:

I guess I took the dying light too literally.Ok, I was kidding.

But yeah, that poem is beautiful.I always wondered how people with “non-tragic” lives could think otherwise.Maybe I’ll learn…

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:55:05 +0000

“Yep. There’s no point living for longer, unless you’re able to enjoy and appreciate it! I’m sure as life expectancy increases, so will the money that goes into curing these diseases of old age.”

Some would say, to live longer, you have to cure all these diseases.Either that, or you’ll surely die.In other words: to extent life expectancy (?), you have to solve these problems.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:37:09 +0000

I’m sure they’ll always been some interest in the people who lived in today’s times, but mostly I can see age being irrelevant since no one would be able to tell. Maybe it’ll even be a fashion style,the distinguished look of a 40 yr old with the hint of grey hair might give off a better impression than a 25 yr old running a fortune 500?

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:00:58 +0000

Yep. There’s no point living for longer, unless you’re able to enjoy and appreciate it! I’m sure as life expectancy increases, so will the money that goes into curing these diseases of old age.

I sometimes wonder how these future fit & healthy multi-centenarians will be viewed. Will such folk be revered as sages, or will we even know (or care) who’s old and who isn’t anymore? Will age just become an irrelevance?

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:17:33 +0000

Well of course we need solar arrays and wind turbines. But China has most of the world’s supply of neodymium to make the super magnets for generators and air conditioner motors. The rest of us will have to get it from the moon and the asteroids.

But after the Sing we will have the self-replicating photovoltaic carbon nanocells that use the power of the sun to grow themselves out of the carbon in the air. This will save us from global warming while giving all people everywhere an abundant life. Desalinization plants will be grown and then pipelines will grow to water the Sahara and the Gobi. Houses will grow in all the desolate wastes for all the poor to have mansions. Carbon from the air will be assembled into carbon nanotubes and graphene and every other useful carbon compound, including food and clothing and furniture and even hydrogen powered automobiles.

Thanks for quoting that poem, Mr. X. It’s an old favorite.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:34:20 +0000

“German scientists have developed a transgenic variety of the zebrafish, which is transparent in the early stages of its life: the “MitoFish,” which enables the scientists to see how brain diseases like Alzheimer’s disturb the transport of mitochondria, the power plants of the cell.”

Who else?Our median age is 43^^

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Conclusion: We need renewable energy.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:23:49 +0000

“Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and MS (multiple sclerosis) are…” …things that will prevent us from seeing the Singularity.

If you want to see the Sing, you have to get excited about research that will keep our minds sharp for the coming things.

Thanks for bringing us this article, Amara.