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Bucky Balls Could Double Your Lifespan
http://gizmodo.com/5902703/
The results, which appear in Biomaterials, took the researchers by surprise. The control group had a median lifespan of 22 months, and the olive oil group one of 26 months. But the Bucky ball group? They stuck it out for 42 months. That's almost double the control group.
The researchers have established that the effect is mediated by a reduction in oxidative stressan imbalance in living cells that contributes to ageing. To say these results are important is an understatement: the desire to live longer runs strong in many of us, and it's a feat scientists have been hoping to achieve for centuries.
Abstract
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961212003237
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)http://www.jkchemical.com/EN/products/A01371111.html = $86/500mg
http://www.tci-uk.co.uk/catalog/B1660.html = $265/ gram or
http://www.tci-uk.co.uk/catalog/B1641.html = $305/ gram for slightly more concentrated
http://www.alfa.com/en/gp100w.pgm?dsstk=39722 = $600/5 grams
http://www.alfa.com/en/gp100w.pgm?dsstk=42007 = $1200/5 grams of 99.9% pure
http://www.alfa.com/en/gp100w.pgm?dsstk=42008 = $1600/5 grams sublimed
Considering you might need 75 times the amount the rats needed...
BootinUp
(47,143 posts)for much less. Carbon nanotubes are not that expensive IIRC and they are related to bucky balls.
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)people who know about such things.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)For the 1% would be Methuselah..
Confusious
(8,317 posts)Maybe that was some other carbon thing, like carbon nanotubes.
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)This study was actually undertaken to prove they were toxic. Details at the Abstract.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)BadgerKid
(4,552 posts)as he's dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Smalley). Over the years I've gotten the impression he and his group explored everything and anything having to do with fullerenes.
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)Buckminster Fuller? The designer of the geodesic dome?
I think he would be pleased.
http://bfi.org/about-bucky
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)The class of all these forms of carbon are called Fullerenes.
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)Nothing to back that up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Practical_achievements
I would call that "designed".
If you don't, why would anyone care? Is there a purpose to this particular contrariness?
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)named for Buckminster Fuller because they appeared somewhat like the geodesic domes he designed. At the time he designed those domes, bucky balls were not known to crystallographers and physicists.
He had nothing to do with those forms of carbon. However, bucky balls were named for him, as were other related fullerenes. Buckminster Fuller had nothing to do with their discovery, but they were named in his honor. Nobody "designed" fullerenes or buckyballs. They were discovered.
You can look up buckyballs or fullerenes on Wikipedia. Buckminster Fuller was an amazing, inventive man, but he had nothing to do with fullerenes or buckyballs.
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)I'm not myself today.