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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson

Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.

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Mastodon DNA sequenced

The mastodon, an extinct relative of modern elephants, has become the latest prehistoric animal to have its DNA sequenced. Using a fossilized tooth, they sequenced all the DNA of the mastodon's mitochondrion, an energy-generating structure in the cell with its own small genome. The tooth is believed to be 50,000-130,000 years old, making the mastodon's the oldest complete mitochondrial genome decoded so far.

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