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Observed mentions: 2022-09-06 17:21:21 UTC to 2023-02-09 10:10:40 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsSep 52022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 212022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 6

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ly3xqhl8g9·Feb 9, 2023
I also focused on the work done by the Levin lab after the Sean Carroll podcast [1]. In order to familiarize myself with the subject matter in a more practical manner I started writing a wrapper and a frontend, BESO [2], BioElectric Simulation Orchestrator, for BETSE [3], the Bio Electric Tissue Simulation Engine developed by Alexis Pietak which is used by the Levin lab to simulate various tissues and their responses based on world/biomolecules/genes/etc. parametrization. Reading the BETSE source code, the presentation [4], and some of the articles referred through the source code has been a rewarding endeavour. Some other books I consulted, somewhat beginner friendly were: 2018, Amit Kessel, Introduction to Proteins. Structure, Function, and Motion, CRC Press 2019, Noor Ahmad Shaik, Essentials of Bioinformatics, Volume I. Underst
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anding Bioinformatics. Genes to Proteins, Springer 2019, Noor Ahmad Shaik, Essentials of Bioinformatics, Volume II. In Silico Life Sciences. Medicine, Springer — less basics, more protocol-oriented 2021, Karthik Raman, An Introduction to Computational Systems Biology. Systems-Level Modelling of Cellular Networks, Chapman and Hall 2022, Tiago Antao, Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook. Use modern Python libraries and applications to solve real-world computational biology problems, Packt 2023, Metzger R.M., The Physical Chemist's Toolbox, Wiley — a beautiful story of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology; gradually rising in complexity as the universe itself, from the whatever (data) structure the universe was before the Big Bang to us, today. somewhat more technical: 2014, Wendell Lim, Cell Signaling. Principles and Mechanisms, Routledge 2021, Mo R. Ebrahimkhani, Programmed Morphogenesis. Methods and Protocols, Humana 2022, Ki-Taek Lim, Nanorobotics and Nanodiagnostics in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine, Springer In video format I particularly watched Kevin Ahern's Biochemistry courses BB 350/2017 [5], BB 451/2018 [6], Problem Solving Videos [7]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm7VDk8kxOw [2] not functional yet, https://github.com/daysful/beso [3] https://github.com/betsee/betse [4] BETSE 1.0, https://www.dropbox.com/s/3rsbrjq2ljal8dl/BETSE_Documentatio... [5] https://youtu.be/JSntf0iKMfM?list=PLlnFrNM93wqz37TUabcXFSNX2... [6] https://youtu.be/SAIFs_Mx8D8?list=PLlnFrNM93wqyay92Mi49rXZKs... [7] https://youtu.be/e9khXFSU6r4?list=PLlnFrNM93wqzeZvsE_GKes91C...
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ly3xqhl8g9·Dec 20, 2022
Jeanne Louise Calment lived 122 years and 164 days [1]. Doubling the lifespan, 240+ years, is most certainly not possible, not reasonable, using diets, exercises, and so forth: if it were such a low hanging fruit, we would have already been there. Even if we could push the body using current technology, no one will want to live 100+ years (from age 70 to 160+) as an old person, being in pain constantly, fighting all kinds of cancers. Therefore, the only way I can see a lifespan push, not only x2, but x10, or even x100 (10,000 years—once you get x3/x4, it probably scales trivially) is through 100% organ regeneration and 100% programmatic control over the morphospace. Broke an arm? Amputate the limb and grow another one back, your cells already did it before. Liver cancer? Regrow another liver. Heart issues? Make another heart. Spend all th
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e years above 35 as a perpetual 35 year old, eventually in the bodyshape of Chris Hemsworth/Margot Robbie (to keep the examples in Australia). This scientific fancy is somehow grounded in the mind-expanding perspectives coming from Dr. Michael Levin's lab [2]. Personally, I'm compelled enough by their thesis, programmatic control over cells, that I started learning about their work, BETSE, Bio Electric Tissue Simulation Engine [3], and try to build on top a BioElectric Simulation Orchestrator, BESO [4]. Most probably, however, we won't see 100% human organ regeneration in our regular lifetimes, but never say never. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment [2] Speaking with Cells: the Electrical Future of Regenerative Medicine with Dr. Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGaakopAKU [3] https://github.com/betsee/betse [4] https://github.com/daysful/beso
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