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To date, there have been no metrics for accurately assessing individuals’ inflammatory status in a way that could predict these clinical problems and point to ways of addressing them or staving them off, Furman said. But now, he said, the study has produced a single-number quantitative measure that appears to do just that.

You’re as old as your immune system.

Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have built an inflammatory-aging clock that’s more accurate than the number of candles on your birthday cake in predicting how strong your immune system is, how soon you’ll become frail or whether you have unseen cardiovascular problems that could become clinical headaches a few years down the road.

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The compounds can form PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The E.P.A. approvals came despite the agency’s own concerns about toxicity.

Two reports call for the development of global standards for gene editing, covering unfair and potentially dangerous applications of experimental techniques, including altering DNA to enhance athletic ability.

Richard Branson, the founder of spaceflight firm Virgin Galactic, successfully went to space for the first time on Sunday. It is a milestone for space tourism.

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The development is being compared to the desktop computing system revolution of the 1960’s.

For the first time ever, a single SoC features both quantum and Turing-based computing — and includes the world’s first hardware-agnostic quantum OS.

Paper referenced in the video:

Diet and Botanical Supplementation: Combination Therapy for Healthspan Improvement?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32924860/

Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the University of Warwick that peers into its future.

Astronomers have modeled how the change in gravitational forces in the system as a result of the star becoming a white dwarf will cause its planets to fly loose from their orbits and bounce off each other’s gravity, like balls bouncing off a bumper in a game of pinball.

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Quantum computing algorithms can simulate infinitely-large quantum systems thanks to mathematical tools known as tensor networks.