Technology & Society
This is a useful new paper by Andrew J. Scott, Martin Ellison & David A. Sinclair. Published in Nature, the two economists along with David Sinclair say that “We show that a slowdown in aging that increases life expectancy by
Here’s an article by the folks at Longevity Technology that explains a bit about what I’ve been up to lately with 100 Plus Capital. “While longevity is now seeing increasing interest from major Silicon Valley investment firms, companies in our
Check out my conversation on investing in human longevity with @tamccann and the L200 crew! During this podcast we explore a number of interesting topics, including: What has changed since I wrote 100 Plus Why longevity is good for economic
Today is International Longevity Day. To celebrate, the SENS Foundation held a film competition for the best film about healthy longevity. Check them out here.
If you live in Mississippi, you have the same life expectancy as someone in Bangladesh…. See the story here.
“More than half of wealthy investors around the world expect to live to the age of 100, with almost two in three planning to work longer in life to afford a comfortable retirement, according to a survey on Thursday.” Read
A great article from Nicholas Wade at the NYT: “At the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., scientists are trying to get time to run backward. Biological time, that is. In the first attempt to reverse aging by reprogramming the
I love stories like this one from the WSJ. It’s never too late to pick up a healthy habit! “Anne Garrett, 82, runs four days a week, often with the children she meets as an anti-obesity advocate.”
A great advance: “Now, Ramille Shah at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and her colleagues have developed an ink that can be 3D-printed into bone implants that are robust but ultra-elastic, allowing surgeons to cut and manipulate them in the
From the Guardian: “The scientists found that known health indicators, such as smoking, blood pressure and weight, were still more valuable in predicting life expectancy in the 2,700 participants who had died since the study began, but that their underlying
“Although fasting diets have been criticised by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells, which fight off infection. Scientists at the University of Southern California say the discovery
Here’s a good article by Adam Piore on some of the ways anti-aging scientists are being funded.
Lucky mice. Time will tell if it matters for humans. Here’s the study. And the Newsweek write up on it.
From STAT NEWS: The long-running Framingham Heart Study has found that “the rate of dementia was 3.6 percent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, falling to 2.8 percent a decade later, 2.2 percent a decade after that, and 2
Here’s the story in Forbes: “What if a simple blood test could detect any cancer early, when it was still easy to treat? It sounds like science fiction. But Illumina ILMN -0.61%, the $24 billion (market cap) biotechnology company that
From ScienceMag.org: “Harvard stem cell biologist Amy Wagers, cardiologist Richard Lee of the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and their colleagues claim that a specific protein, GDF11, may explain young blood’s beneficial effects. They have reported that blood
From the Independent: “A new class of drugs has been identified that slow the ageing process in mice, alleviating symptoms of frailty and extending a healthy lifespan. If their effect on humans is as marked as it is on animal
Here are two well-written stories about longevity, the Palo Alto Longevity Prize, and my book, 100 Plus. Journalist Joshua Alvarez did a good job interviewing a diverse set of voices. Here are the two links: one and two. A few
From Singularity Hub: ““No, no it’s not science fiction; it’s already happening,” said Ido Bachelet to a somewhat incredulous audience member at a London event late last year. Bachelet, previously of Harvard’s Wyss Institute and faculty member at Israel’s Bar-Ilan
Some great research coming out of Stanford University. Here’s their press release, and a few news articles. The upshot is that “Brain cells called microglia chew up toxic substances and cell debris, calm inflammation and make nerve-cell-nurturing substances. New research