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May 21, 2019
AI Is Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare and Longevity
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: life extension, robotics/AI
Conclusion
As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stated, “Software ate the world, but AI is going to eat software.” Extrapolating this statement to a more immediate implication, AI will first eat healthcare, resulting in dramatic acceleration of longevity research and an amplification of the human healthspan.
Next week, I’ll continue to explore this concept of AI systems in healthcare.
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May 21, 2019
Commander (ret) Dr. Luis Alvarez, Director of Organ Manufacturing, United Therapeutics, and Co-Founder of GDF11 Harvard spin-out Elevian and MIT spin-out Theradaptive — ideaXme Show — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, defense, DNA, health, life extension, military, science
May 21, 2019
Ending Age-Related Diseases Conference: May Update
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, business, life extension
May is almost over, so it’s time to check in with the Ending Age-Released Diseases conference and see how things are developing with the event.
If you’re unfamiliar with us, we’re hosting our second annual conference at the Cooper Union in New York City on July 11-12th this year. It will feature some of the leading names in both aging research and biotech business and investment coming together to share their knowledge and insights with the audience.
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May 20, 2019
Regenerative medicine, stem cells, and low-level laser therapy: future directives
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
May 20, 2019
Rejuvenate Bio Using Gene Therapy Has Reversed Aging Effects in Mice and Dogs
Posted by Mark Sackler in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Is it me? Or am I the only one who wishes George Church was not so secretive? https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/05/rejuvenate-bio-using-g…dogs.html?
Harvard Genetics Giant Geroge Church and Noah Davidsohn, a former postdoc in his lab, have engaged in a secretive antiaging venture called Rejuvenate Bio. They are making old dogs new. They have conducted gene therapy on beagles and are currently advertising for Cavalier King Charles spaniels to use gene therapy to fix their hearts.
They have identified many other targets for gene-based interventions, studying a database of aging-related genes.
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May 20, 2019
How Uber And Lyft Could Transform Healthcare
Posted by Edward Futurem in categories: life extension, transportation
Where #Uber, Facebook, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Google, And #Amazon Are Investing In longevity and health span.
As Uber and Lyft grow their massive footprints, they are beginning to look towards the healthcare industry. Here’s what they’re doing in healthcare already and what they might do next.
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May 19, 2019
Investing in the Age of Longevity Panel Discussion | Main Stage | Master Investor Show 2019
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: futurism, life extension
Snake oil, investing, and I like the bit between 19 minutes and 24 minutes on the future. Aubrey is on the panel.
Led by Victor Hill, Author at Master Investor Magazine, the panel first explores what the new field of juvenescence is and why it should be taken seriously…
May 19, 2019
Future of human population
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
In 2018, researchers at the Biogerontology Research Foundation and the International Longevity Alliance submitted a joint proposal to the World Health Organization to re-classify aging as a disease. Months later, 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) officially introduced some aging-related conditions such as age-associated cognitive decline.
This matters because, for the first time in human history, the once natural process of aging is becoming recontextualized as a condition to be treated and prevented. This will gradually lead to pharmaceutical companies and governments redirecting funding to new drugs and therapies that not only extend human life expectancy but reverse the effects of aging entirely.
Thus far, people in developed nations have seen their average life expectancy rise from ~35 in 1820 to 80 in 2003. And with the advances you’re about to learn about, you’ll see how that progression will continue until 80 becomes the new 40. In fact, the first humans expected to live to 150 may have already been born.
May 19, 2019
Quest for Immortality
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, robotics/AI
Besides biological immortality, there is also the possibility of digital immortality. The Human Connectome Project launched in 2010 aimed at mapping the entire human brain and to build its “network map” (connectome) to connect its structure to function and behaviour. Once the neural structure of the brain is completely deciphered, the mind can be uploaded into a computer that could control a robot that replicates a human in every respect.
The quest for eternal life is as old as humanity itself. “Grant us liberation from death for the sake of immortality, as the cucumber is severed from its bondage to the creeper”, runs one of the ancient Hindu prayers in the Mahamrityunjay, or the “great death-conquering” mantra. Death is the ultimate end, mysterious and terrible, against which even the strongest is powerless.
How to conquer death is a question every civilisation has tried to address. Myths have grown around immortal beings like gods in every culture, and of valiant but futile attempts of mortal men to attain immortality. But science may be closer to finding an answer to this ancient quest now more than ever before. In the early history of life, unicellular organisms like prokaryotes, protozoans and algae had ageless bodies and were immortal.
