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Monitoring your vital signs is becoming easier and easier these days, critical if you want to keep track of your general health and well being, and incredibly useful if you want to see how a life style, or dietary, change is playing out. In this video I look at two new companies that are utilising mobile phones to measure a whole raft of biometric data, simply and easily, and clinically tested to deliver medical-grade accuracy. And these are just first generation versions, who knows where this will take us, and what we will be able to monitor quickly and easily in the next few years.

Medical Diagnosis Software With Just A Smart PhoneIn the near future, your phone or a wearable of some description, will constantly be able to monitor all your health signs continuously ready to alert you to any worrying signs, and what they can do today is just the beginning of where we are heading.

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What would a habitat on Mars look like? Kind of like this.

Lockheed Martin starts the year with a big space contract. January contract awards showed contract value growth compared to previous years.

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Summary of bio-tech history and technology. iTR at 26 minutes.

Annual corporate presentation from AgeX’s annual stockholder meeting in 2020, presented by Dr. Michael West.

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NU-9, a novel, non-toxic protein, targets upper motor neurons and reverses damage associated with ALS within 60 days of treatment.

Summary: NU-9, a novel, non-toxic compound, targets upper motor neurons and reverses damage associated with ALS within 60 days of treatment.

Source: Northwestern University

Summary: Injecting a patient’s own bone marrow derived stem cells significantly improved motor function within weeks in those with spinal cord injuries.

Source: Yale

New research conducted at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in collaboration with the COVID-IFEMA Field Hospital has found patients suffering from severe COVID-19 have shortened telomere lengths.

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NASA hid a secret message on the parachute that landed its Perseverance rover down on the surface of Mars last week.