A fellow named Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey at Cambridge University is working on it. (He looks a little like Rasputin, but that’s beside the point.)  What’s interesting is that he calls his project "engineered negligible senescence." Instead of talking about "immortality"–a loaded, controversial idea–de Grey is focusing on engineering a  reduction in the processes that cause senescence–i.e., aging–at ...

Ah, the classic "private property" vs. "share it" debate thrives in biology. Companies and patents hold intellectual "property" privately but there is a movement to put science information in "the commons."  From Wired: To push research forward, scientists need to draw from the best data and innovations in their field. Much of the work, however, is patented, leaving many academic ...

The following material was provided to me by Robin Brown, Dir. Marketing/Communications, Border/Sierra Region, CA Division. It’s three links to articles about how short messaging service (SMS) is being used for marketing and, yes, cancer fundraising in parts of the world where cell phone text messaging is more widely used. SMS is growing in the US, and, for sure, it ...

Interesting question from an MIT blog. Apple says no; the Electronic Frontier Foundation says yes. In November, Mac blogs AppleInsider and PowerPage posted information about a product code-named “Asteroid,“ designed to let musicians plug their analog gear into a Mac, and supposedly to-be-announced at this week’s Macworld Conference. Unhappy as always about the leak, Apple filed suit in a California ...