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Harold Katcher’s E5/Elixir (Young Plasma) Rat Trial Results
Just a quick update in the E5 experiment all control rats have died and 3 treated rats remain.
Does the survival curve reflect the epigenetic age reduction seen in previous experiment? Blog post from the Live Forever Club.
Rare mummified baby woolly mammoth with skin and hair found in Canada
A gold miner in Canada discovered a near complete mummified baby woolly mammoth Tuesday, according to the Yukon government and Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, a local traditional territory. The female baby was named Nun cho ga, which means “big baby animal” in the Hän language.
the government’s press release said. She’s estimated to have frozen during the Ice Age, over 30,000 years ago. While alive, she likely roamed the Yukon with wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison.
It added that the discovery was “significant” and rare, even for an area like Yukon, which has “a world-renowned fossil record of ice age animals.”
An Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Scientists Warn
Typhoid fever might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have been around for millennia, is still very much a danger in our modern world.
According to new research, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and it’s rapidly replacing strains that aren’t resistant.
Currently, antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat typhoid, which is caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi). Yet over the past three decades, the bacterium’s resistance to oral antibiotics has been growing and spreading.
Quantum microphone works even better than a regular one
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A quantum microphone can record human speech better than an equivalent classical version, and it could also be adapted for high-resolution biological imaging.
