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Nicola Bagalà is a mathematician, geek, rejuvenation biotech advocate, almost-artist, and writer.

154 posts by Nicola Bagalà

• Stem Cell Trivia | LifeXtenShow – January 16, 2020
• Did you know that your genes can be switched on and off? – December 12, 2019
• Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019 | LifeXtenShow – November 28, 2019
• Today’s episode is a special one—we begin a new season of X10 with a new co-host, who will quiz Giuliano and Nicola on depictions of life extension in fiction – November 17, 2019
• In the long run, mutation is the key to evolution, but in the short run, it’s not exactly your health’s best friend – October 31, 2019
• How well does Giuliano know Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães, one of the many scientists working to defeat aging? – October 17, 2019
• What if the world’s tyrants and dictators took life extension treatments and prolonged their regimes indefinitely? – October 3, 2019
• Interest in life extension might seem to be a fairly recent phenomenon, but it is almost as old as humanity itself – September 19, 2019
• An Interview with Prof. S. Jay Olshansky – September 17, 2019
• Doug Ethell at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019 – September 13, 2019
• Michael West at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019 – September 12, 2019
• An Interview with Dr. David Sinclair – September 10, 2019
• An Interview with Dr. Kevin Strange – September 9, 2019
• They’re nine – September 5, 2019
• Will Giuliano win this week’s trivia about longevity history facts? – July 11, 2019
• A small reminder of the important difference between chronological ageing and biological ageing :) – July 4, 2019
• Beware of the “natural” label… – June 27, 2019
• Longevity Investor Network Member Spotlight – Sebastian Aguiar – February 4, 2019
• An Interview With Daniel Muñoz-Espín – December 19, 2018
• One-carbon Metabolic Pathway Implicated In Age-Related Immunosenescence – December 18, 2018
• Dual-Action Antibody Might Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes – November 22, 2018
• Inhibiting USP13 Might Prove Effective Against Parkinson’s Disease – November 20, 2018
• Thoughts on the 2018 Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing – November 15, 2018
• An Interview With Leonid Gavrilov And Natalia Gavrilova – November 14, 2018
• Choosing Health Early On – November 2, 2018
• Rejuvenation Roundup October 2018 – November 1, 2018
• Neutralizing RNS May Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes – October 31, 2018
• RbAp48 And Osteocalcin Play A Crucial Role In Age-related Memory Loss – October 29, 2018
• Treating Multiple Aging Pathways Simultaneously Extends Healthy Lifespan Of Nematodes – October 25, 2018
• Mutations Accumulate in Healthy Esophageal Tissue With Age – October 24, 2018
• Protein Produced by Astrocytes Involved in Brain Plasticity – October 23, 2018
• Invariant Natural Killer T Cells Might Be The Next Step in Cancer Therapy – October 10, 2018
• Type of Human Monocytes Found to Undergo Senescence – October 9, 2018
• Are You Sure Eighty Years Are Enough? – October 5, 2018
• Scarlet Protein Might Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease – October 4, 2018
• Forcing Cancer to Put up a Broken Shield – October 3, 2018
• Rejuvenation Roundup September 2018 – October 1, 2018
• Known Drug Might Prove Effective Against Alzheimer’s Disease – September 24, 2018
• Aging and Tiredness of Living: from the Frying Pan to the Fire – September 21, 2018
• High-Fiber Diet Reduces Brain Inflammation in Older Mice – September 17, 2018
• The Status Quo of Aging – September 14, 2018
• Exercise Induces Adult Neurogenesis and Ameliorates Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice – September 13, 2018
• Molecule Appears to Have Anti-Aging Effects on the Vascular System – September 11, 2018
• From Within Your Own Failing Shell – September 7, 2018
• Administering Gene Therapy Without Triggering Immune Response – September 6, 2018
• An Interview With David Gobel – September 5, 2018
• DNA Replication Can Happen Without ORC1 – September 4, 2018
• Rejuvenation Roundup August 2018 – September 3, 2018
• The Life Extensionist’s Guide to Logical Fallacies – August 21, 2018
• An Interview With Didier Coeurnelle – August 15, 2018
• Our Families Succumb – August 14, 2018
• Glucose and the Gut Microbiome – August 9, 2018
• Researchers Turn Cellular Senescence Against Cancer – August 6, 2018
• Time Is Precious, So Let’s Enjoy More of It – August 2, 2018
• Hair Loss Related to Western Diet Reversed in Mice – August 1, 2018
• Rejuvenation Roundup July 2018 – August 1, 2018
• Life Extension Is Not Selfish – July 31, 2018
• An Interview With Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães – July 30, 2018
• Wet AMD Drugs Might Soon Be Self-Administered – July 26, 2018
• Choose Your Own Story – July 24, 2018
• Intervening on mtDNA in Mice Reverses Skin Wrinkling and Hair Loss – July 23, 2018
• The Freedom of Life Extension – July 20, 2018
• Mechanism Behind Drug Resistance in Some Cancers Clarified – July 19, 2018
• Enough with the excuses – July 17, 2018
• Inhibition of mTOR Appears to Boost Aged Immune Systems – July 13, 2018
• Minoring in the majors – July 12, 2018
• Surviving the odds – July 11, 2018
• Two Papers Trace The Steps Leading From Moles to Melanomas – July 10, 2018
• Menu: Whether or not you had a good life doesn’t make it any better if you die, of aging or other causes – July 6, 2018
• A two-way approach against cancer – July 5, 2018
• Too healthy for your own good? – July 3, 2018
• Rejuvenation Roundup June 2018 – July 2, 2018
• The First Rejuvenation Therapy Reaches Human Trials – June 29, 2018
• Dr. Anthony Atala — Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine – June 28, 2018
• Antioxidant inhibitor might be a regulator of aging – June 25, 2018
• Humanity first, or individuals first? – June 22, 2018
• Dr. Vadim Gladyshev – Harvard University – June 21, 2018
• Aggregate form of α-synuclein leads to cell death in Parkinson’s Disease – June 20, 2018
• Sugarcoating aging won’t fight ageism – June 19, 2018
• Brain Aging Correlates with Aortic Stiffness and Low Fitness – June 15, 2018
• Cellular Cilia Implicated in Cancer Drug Resistance – June 14, 2018
• Getting sick in a healthy way – June 13, 2018
• Researchers Reverse Cognitive Impairments in Mice with Alzheimer’s – June 11, 2018
• Thoughts on the world behind and the world ahead – June 6, 2018
• Mitochondrial dysfunction in aged brain cells – June 5, 2018
• An interview with Dr. Laura Weston – June 4, 2018
• Rejuvenation Roundup May 2018 – June 1, 2018
• Popular reactions to life extension – May 31, 2018
• Dr. Matt Kaeberlein – The Dog Aging Project – May 28, 2018
• Vascular risk appears to accelerate cognitive decline in old age – May 24, 2018
• The right to die and the right to live – May 17, 2018
• Announcing the “Ending Age-Related Diseases” Conference – May 16, 2018
• The Astana Global Challenges Summit 2018 – May 15, 2018
• Reason – Fight Aging! blog and Repair Biotechnologies – May 14, 2018
• On life extension and risk aversion – May 11, 2018
• Fasting might boost intestinal stem cell function – May 7, 2018
• Aging is no laughing matter – May 2, 2018
• New cancer stem cell marker also kills off cancer cells – April 10, 2018
• Undoing Aging With Aubrey de Grey Part Three – March 16, 2018
• Undoing Aging With Aubrey de Grey Part Two – March 15, 2018
• Undoing Aging With Aubrey de Grey Part One – March 14, 2018
• Undoing Aging Conference – Berlin 2018 – February 15, 2018
• Is aging natural or a pathological disease that we can treat? – January 19, 2018
• Distinct Types of Amyloid-beta Prion Strains in Alzheimer’s Disease Discovered – January 18, 2018
• Could Filtering Our Aged Blood Keep us Young? – January 18, 2018
• Researchers Discover a New Warning System in the Immune System – January 15, 2018
• For the last time: rejuvenation is not immortality – December 21, 2017
• Mathematics, rejuvenation, and immortality walk into a bar… – October 18, 2017
• Tempus fugit – September 14, 2017
• News from Lifespan.io campaigns – September 4, 2017
• Introducing Rejuvenaction Italia and other news – August 23, 2017
• Aubrey’s trump cards – July 21, 2017
• Rejuvenation is good for society – July 14, 2017
• Rejuvenation is good for your loved ones – July 5, 2017
• The meaning of death? – June 30, 2017
• Imaginary points – June 28, 2017
• Rejuvenation is good for you – June 26, 2017
• Artificial meat and the problems of ‘-isms’ – June 24, 2017
• Living ‘forever’ would cause extreme risk aversion – June 20, 2017
• If you don’t die, you can’t reach God – June 14, 2017
• Living forever would be boring – June 6, 2017
• Death gives meaning to life – May 30, 2017
• Update bundle #4 – May 26, 2017
• I don’t want to live forever – May 22, 2017
• Ageing has its good sides – May 15, 2017
• Rejuvenaction — Posts – May 8, 2017
• Rejuvenation would be too expensive to create – May 3, 2017
• Rejuvenation would be forced on people – April 25, 2017
• There are more urgent issues – April 18, 2017
• Old generations should step down in favour of the new ones – April 10, 2017
• Rejuvenation would be only for the rich – April 3, 2017
• Not all discriminations are born equal – March 29, 2017
• Rejuvenation would cause cultural stagnation – March 27, 2017
• Rejuvenation would change our concept of family – March 20, 2017
• Scattered thoughts on self-awareness and AI – March 17, 2017
• The future looks too grim to wish for a longer life – March 13, 2017
• Women, reproduction, and rejuvenation – March 7, 2017
• Population dynamics – March 6, 2017
• Space, environment, resources, jobs – February 27, 2017
• Moral implications – February 20, 2017
• Doing the right things for the wrong reasons – February 16, 2017
• Again on ageing as a disease: A rectification – February 14, 2017
• We wouldn’t be able to pay the pensions – February 13, 2017
• Health before semantics – February 10, 2017
• SRF and Buck Institute to Collaborate on Neurodegeneration – February 7, 2017
• Tyrants would live forever – February 6, 2017
• Reductio ad absurdum – February 2, 2017
• Ageing is natural. Rejuvenation is not – January 30, 2017
• Living longer in a decrepit body would be bad – January 23, 2017
• The point of rebutting objections to rejuvenation – January 21, 2017
• Can technology bring loved ones back to life? – January 6, 2017
• #CellAge is working on making age-related disease a thing of the past – January 5, 2017
• Cancer Treated With Cell Drip Into Man’s Brain – January 4, 2017
• Why live longer when the future looks so grim? – January 4, 2017