The pandemic will very likely speed up the time when people’s healthy life span (or healthspan) is further extended. Impacts to retirement are huge.
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Apr 14 2020
Why Die? Pandemic Pushes Progress
Why Do We Pay More Attention to Viruses Vs. Aging? Pandemics lead to increased contemplation of death. A surprising result may be the acceleration of life extension and age reversal therapies! Recently, the number of world-wide casualties to Covid-19 went over 100,000. Somewhere over 80% of people who die from the virus are over the …
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Sep 27 2019
Will Health Extension Make Retirement Savings Unnecessary?
A continuing flow of promising research on aging points to a growing likelihood that healthy life spans will soon get a significant boost. It is also possible that initial progress in extending “health spans” by a few years will unfold further into “longevity escape velocity” – where remaining life span gets increased by more than 1 …
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Feb 09 2019
Technology Friend or Foe?
it is good to seek out,and learn from thought leaders who are in touch with the tremendous impacts that technological advances may have on our lives and our world
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- How Quantum Computers Could Illuminate the Full Range of Human Genetic Diversity April 26, 2024Genomics is revolutionizing medicine and science, but current approaches still struggle to capture the breadth of human genetic diversity. Pangenomes that incorporate many people’s DNA could be the answer, and a new project thinks quantum computers will be a key enabler. When the Human Genome Project published its first reference genome in 2001, it was […]Edd Gent
- This AI Just Designed a More Precise CRISPR Gene Editor for Human Cells From Scratch April 25, 2024CRISPR has revolutionized science. AI is now taking the gene editor to the next level. Thanks to its ability to accurately edit the genome, CRISPR tools are now widely used in biotechnology and across medicine to tackle inherited diseases. In late 2023, a therapy using the Nobel Prize-winning tool gained approval from the FDA to […]Shelly Fan
- The Crucial Building Blocks of Life on Earth Form More Easily in Outer Space April 23, 2024The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the early Earth, eventually leading to actual organisms. It’s long been suspected that some of these ingredients may have been […]Christian Schroeder
- A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggests It’s Possible April 22, 2024From Covid boosters to annual flu shots, most of us are left wondering: Why so many, so often? There’s a reason to update vaccines. Viruses rapidly mutate, which can help them escape the body’s immune system, putting previously vaccinated people at risk of infection. Using AI modeling, scientists have increasingly been able to predict how […]Shelly Fan
- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 20) April 20, 2024ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024 Eliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum “Each year, the AI Index lands on virtual desks with a louder virtual thud—this year, its 393 pages are a testament to the fact that AI is coming off a really big year in 2023. For the past […]Singularity Hub Staff
- Cell Therapies Now Beat Back Once Untreatable Blood Cancers. Scientists Are Making Them Even Deadlier. April 19, 2024Dubbed “living drugs,” CAR T cells are bioengineered from a patient’s own immune cells to make them better able to hunt and destroy cancer. The treatment is successfully tackling previously untreatable blood cancers. Six therapies are already approved by the FDA. Over a thousand clinical trials are underway. These aren’t limited to cancer—they cover a […]Shelly Fan
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- Looking for Causality in Diabetes and Aging April 25, 2024Researchers have published the results of a study in Aging Cell, finding some evidence that type 2 diabetes causes accelerated aging. Later-generation clocks only This paper begins with explanations of Type 2 diabetes […]Josh Conway
- A Re-Analysis Finds Potential Life-Prolonging Compounds April 24, 2024The authors of a recent paper published in GeroScience used an alternative statistical test to reanalyze data from the Interventions Testing Program and identified additional life‑extending compounds [1]. The crucial step of data […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- Vitalia: Living the Longevity Dream April 24, 2024On the tropical island of Roatán, a bunch of people gathered in an unprecedented, longevity-themed pop-up city – and then some of them stayed, making the venture permanent. “You’re going where?” A friend invited me over, but I declined, telling […]Arkadi Mazin
- Cannabis Use Linked to Cardiovascular Problems April 23, 2024According to a new study, cannabis consumption is associated with increased risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart attack [1]. It’s growing popular, but is it good […]Arkadi Mazin
- Taking a Look at Proteins in Exercise and Aging April 22, 2024With an in-depth examination tool in hand, researchers publishing in Aging have done a preliminary examination of the muscle protein differences between younger and older people and how older people’s […]Josh Conway
- Aging Measurements Can Vary by Time of Day April 21, 2024Epigenetic aging measurements can vary by the time of day at which they are taken, according to a study published in Aging Cell. The circadian rhythm Living on Earth, organisms have evolved to adapt […]Josh Conway