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Rejuvenation Biotechnology: on track to be the biggest industry ever.

Dr Aubrey de Grey, CSO at the SENS Research Foundation speaking at Master Investor’s Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019 event. Aubrey discusses Rejuvenation biotechnology and how it’s on track to become the biggest industry ever.

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One of the most vexing questions many of us face once we hit our 60s is: Where should we live as we get older? I’m not talking about those “Best Places to Live” rankings. I mean what kind of home, and type of community, would be most suitable. That’s why I was eager to hear what several gerontologists had to say in their session at last week’s Gerontological Society of America conference about how they decided where they’d live in later life.

What kind of home and community is most suitable? The answer isn’t always rational.

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Gene therapies to reverse immunosenescence and atherosclerosis.

CEO of Repair Biotechnologies speaking at Master Investor’s Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019 event. Reason discusses gene therapies to reverse immunosenescence and atherosclerosis.

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Time can be measured in many ways: a watch, a sundial, or the body’s natural circadian rhythms. But what about the sexual behavior of a fruit fly?

“If you ask a bunch of scientists whether animals can keep time, many would say they cannot, that things happen over time—but time itself is not measured,” says Michael Crickmore, Ph.D., a researcher in Boston Children’s Hospital’s F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center whose laboratory studies motivation. But in new research published in the journal Neuron in collaboration with the lab of Dragana Rogulja, Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School, he shows that the mating of fruit flies is not haphazard. Instead, motivation and behavior are under the control of that track time.

Crickmore uses the mating drive in to study how motivations are produced by the brain.

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A Gulf War Illness study finds a connection between dysregulated gut flora, leaky gut and neuroinflammation – and a new way to potentially resolve it.

It’s nice when the government has your back. After years of neglect, the federal government finally appears, at least regarding medical research, to have Gulf War Illness (GWI) veterans’ backs.

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AI is Pandora’s box, s’ true…

On the one hand we can’t close it and on the other hand our current direction is not good. And this is gonna get worse as AI starts taking its own ‘creative’ decisions… the human overlords will claim it has nothing to do with them if and when things go wrong.

The solution for commercialization is actually quite simple.

If my dog attacks a child on the street when off the leash who is responsible?

The owner of course. Although I dislike that word when it comes to anything living, maybe the dogs human representative is a better term.

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