There were
to the News Section of our website, as of the Start Date on May 1, 1999;
[For reference, our Counter had
3,082 hits as of February 20, 2001;
15,202 hits as of June 14, 2002;
40,847 hits as of January 2, 2003;
83,065 hits as of January 1, 2007;
112,538 hits as of June 22, 2007;
139,848 hits as of January 1, 2008;
150,000 hits as of April 11, 2008;
161,000 hits as of August 4, 2008;
187,000 hits as of January 12, 2009; and
221,500 hits as of January 5, 2010;
The Hitometer.com website for tracking hits to our website has been out of
business starting January 2000.
To fill this void, on June 16, 2005, we switched over to the webbot Site Meter at
freestats.com.
Click on the icon above for more details. As there were
29,400 hits as of January 3, 2005, we estimate that we are now receiving ~55,000 hits per year at
the current rate].
Actually, there were 53,794 hit for the 12 months ending June 16, 2006 and also
161 members of our World-Wide GRG Discussion Group as of this date.
June 27, 2009; As of this date, there were 222 members.
Our News Section could just as well been called a blog (short for web
log), but this now-popular phrase didn't exist until very recently in the last year. Our
blog is a chronological listing of news items with source references for each one
interspersed with editorial remarks as we see fit to give us some perspective on where the field of
gerontology is moving, even by scientists who would never refer to themselves as
gerontologists.
Click for a listing of Wire
Services reports with virtually all the current worldwide news on the topic of human
cloning [now hosted under The Reproductive Cloning Network News Page]. Click for
another interesting site at
The New Scientist
Magazine.
For stem-cell policy news check the home page of the
Genetics Policy Institute
4000 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Suite 47
Coral Gables, FL 33146; USA Voice: 305-777-0268 FAX: 305-667-5123 URL: www.genpol.org
They have an outstanding Science Advisory Board and are particularly strong in reporting news
from the United Nations.
May 18, 2005; Click for a newly-revised
Better Humans website which covers many of the news items that we cover below, although
they tend to be broader in their interest profile and therefore not as deeply in the specific topic of
anti-aging interventions.
Click for The California
Stem Cell Report, a blog dedicated to the coverage of the California Institute for
Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Archives of the Group's report go back to January 2005. This
website may be the best way to keep yourself informed other than for
CIRM itself. FYI, CIRM has recently moved its
office to
Ms. Nicole Pagono
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
210 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94107 Voice: 415-396-9100 FAX: 415-396-9141
Some educational websites of interest for the stem-cell area are as follows:
10. Stem Cell Battles Politically-
Oriented Website, edited by Donald C. Reed
11. Stem Cell Research News Edited by Data Trends Publications; P.O. Box 4460; Leesburg, VA 20177-8541;
Voice: 703-779-0574; FAX: 703-779-2267; This is clearly a highly professional
organization that makes imitators like us look like amateurs.
13. StemCellInformation.com in
association with Case Western Reserve University; Mr. Stephen Meyer tirelessly
assembles hundreds of messages from news sources throughout the world on the topic of stem
cells in a "YahooGroups" format. As of June 10th, he was up to Digest No. 455. If you subscribe
on a daily basis, you can probably get more information than you can handle, unless you happen
to be a journalist working in this area full time. Nevertheless, Internet website "hit" statistics
compiled by the National Cancer Institute reveals that this website is now listed as No.161 of
all websites monitored for scientific information related to medicine and health care, which is
really quite remarkable.
14. Judie Brown maintains a blog for the
American Life League (ALL)
which is the epitome of nonsense about stem cell research. A related website called
STOPP is devoted to the defeat of
The Planned Parenthood Association. Gasp! Their banner states "Behold the Lord, Jesus
Christ, who tries so hard to get our attention." So, I guess you can figure out their religious
orientation.
Click for data on the maximum lifespan of a variety of zoological species at the Human Aging
Genomic Resources website (AnAge Database) maintained by João Pedro de
Magalhães now with George Church's Lab at the Harvard School of Medicine.
To Our Regular News Section Readers: If you become aware of a news item that
you feel should be posted here, please contact us by
E-mail ASAP.
"Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio"
From Left to Right:
Dr. Gaymon Bennett, Ph.D., Bioethics at
SynBERK, UC Berkeley;
Dr. Philip S. Lukeman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Cal Poly Pamona;
Dr. Hugh Rienhoff, M.D.
MyDaughtersDNA.org at UC Berkeley; and
Dr. Roger Brent, Ph.D. of the Fred Hutchison Cancer Center in Seattle, WA
January 30, 2010; The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics and the ART|SCI Project
hosted their 8th Annual Symposium on Friday evening and Saturday all day (January 29th and
30th) on "Outlaw Biology Public Participation
in the Age of Big Bio" at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute(C(n)SI) hosted by
UCLA Prof. Christopher Kelty (Anthropology).
DIY (Do It Yourself) Biology Open-Source DNA Nano-Design Software was demonstrated
in a workshop on Saturday morning and can be downloaded for free (with a tutorial) at
caDNAno.org [parsed as CAD-NANO] with
instructions for how to participate in a contest in which your design may actually be implemented
in real DNA molecules and scanned with an Atomic Force Microscope for subsequent
visualization (value = $1,000).
