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Before Fleming The history of antibiotics began long before Fleming, although popular culture tends to attribute almost the entire breakthrough to him. * In 1877, Louis Pasteur and Jules Joubert observed that some microorganisms could suppress others and suggested that this phenomenon might be useful for treating infections. * In...
Antimortality is launched to be an international think-tank, a memory for the movement, an onboarding point and a ladder for everyone, who joins. But the website itself is not equal to a movement around it. There must be a habit to leverage essays, invite people, open problems and debate around...
The idea behind Drake's equation - applied to the question of why there are so few active supporters of life extension in the world - has been floating around the movement for a long time. The first precursor to articulate something along these lines was formulated by Vladimir Shakirov in...
Do we have the right to destroy people because medicine is not ready yet? > Yesterday the death was reclassified. In the morning, she signed the consent form to preserve her husband. > > The doctor signed a line "No return is available with current medicine". > The lawyer said...
Let's discuss how “taking care of yourself” becomes a generation killer by making life extension look impossible — and then making it being impossible. The idea inspired by recent post by Kai Micah Mills in X, but here we're adding some maths. By healthspanners I mean a broad group of...
The first real longevity therapies probably won’t be called longevity therapies. Below is the median scenario: not a single “cure for aging,” but an infrastructure for managing age-related risk. The board as it stands AI is becoming the main tool of biotech: from molecule generation and in silico screening to...
Antimortality is a forum for serious cooperation against aging, death, and preventable loss of life. Standards are high because the problem is serious. 1. Core norm Write and comment as if the future reader matters. Ask yourself: > Does this make Antimortality more useful as shared memory and coordination infrastructure...