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Mar 2, 2019

9 Steps to Start Living Longer Today

Posted by in categories: computing, internet, life extension

An award-winning scientist, engineer, and millionaire several times over predicted that by 2029, humans could start living forever.

That’s right. Immortality is almost here.

This ‘futurist’ has been frightening the masses with his predictions for years.

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Mar 2, 2019

We are happy to announce Dr. Nikolay Zak as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference

Posted by in category: life extension

“As I know well from my experience with the Methuselah Mouse Prizes a decade or more ago, the public’s fascination with world records is a valuable tool in the essential task of raising general interest in an otherwise seemingly dry scientific field. This is particularly exemplified by the fame of Jeanne Calment, who has been authoritatively validated to have died in 1997 at an age three years older than any other validated case. However, Zak’s just-published investigations have cast considerable doubt on Calment’s actual age at death, and lend credibility to the possibility of an identity switch with her daughter. He will provide the latest updates on this rapidly-evolving and immensely controversial research.”, says Aubrey de Grey.

https://www.undoing-aging.org/news/dr-nikolay-zak-to-speak-at-undoing-aging-2019

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Mar 2, 2019

Scientists create an artificial brain that stores memories in silver, lives forever

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

The synthetic brain has similar characteristics to a real one in functional MRI & EEG scans.

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Mar 2, 2019

A new artificial synapse is faster and more efficient than ones in your brain

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Biologically inspired circuitry could help build future low-power AI chips—if some obstacles are overcome.

The news: Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology built a new magnetically controlled electronic synapse, an artificial equivalent of the ones that link neurons. They fire millions of times faster than the ones in your brain, while using 1,000th as much energy (which is also less than any other artificial synapse to date).

Why it matters: Synthetic synapses, which gather multiple signals and fire electronic pulses at a threshold, may be an alternative to transistors in regular processors. They can be assembled to create so-called neuromorphic chips that work more like a brain. Such devices can run artificial neural networks, which underpin modern AI, more efficiently than regular chips. This new synapse could make them even more energy-efficient.

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Mar 2, 2019

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

A bizarre theory could explain dark matter.


Mirror Image

The Big Bang didn’t just result in our familiar universe, according to a mind-bending new theory — it also generated a second “anti-universe” that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.

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Mar 2, 2019

Dr. Gerald Pollack — Water, and the Hydro-Dynamic aspects of Life, Health and Aging — Ira Pastor — IdeaXme

Posted by in categories: aging, biological, biotech/medical, cryonics, disruptive technology, DNA, futurism, health, life extension, science

Mar 2, 2019

Rwanda Has Just Completed Over 10,000 Deliveries of Health Supplies Via Medical Drones

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones, health

Rwanda’s advancements on the technological front have been dazzling, with that enviable touch of innovation. Ever since deliveries of health supplies through drones commenced in 2016, the stats have been phenomenal.

To date, over 10,000 health supply deliveries have been completed and this is such a huge feat. Medical drones were launched in October 2016, in partnership with #Zipline Inc. Rwanda is the first country on the continent, and in the world to have such services in the health sector. Such monumental success easily makes Rwanda’s healthcare system among the best in Africa.


Rwanda has completed over 10,000 deliveries of health supplies by medical drones.

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Mar 2, 2019

New species of ‘golden death’ bacterium digests parasitic worms from the inside out

Posted by in category: futurism

Zombie Bacteria that sounds like a Netflix Series…not really, but a bacteria that devours roundworms has been found. #karma A new species of bacterium Chryseobacterium nematophagum, has been found to digest its hosts—roundworm parasites—from the inside out. The findings, which are presented in the open access journal BMC Biology, suggest that the bacteria may potentially be used in future, to control roundworm infections in animals, plants, and, potentially, humans.


A new species of bacterium, Chryseobacterium nematophagum, has been found to digest its hosts—roundworm parasites—from the inside out. The findings, which are presented in the open access journal BMC Biology, suggest that the bacteria may potentially be used in future, to control roundworm infections in animals, plants, and, potentially, humans.

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Mar 1, 2019

Scientists discover predictors that determine toxic fats in the liver

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Accumulation of fat in the liver, known as fatty liver disease, is experienced by over 5.5 million Australians, including more than 40% of all adults over the age of 50.

Fatty liver develops from a combination of both genetic and environmental causes, which influence the age of onset and severity of the disease. Experts are now describing the condition as a hidden epidemic, which is driving up rates of liver transplant, contributing to a range of illnesses and ultimately death.

Fatty liver disease usually has no early symptoms and diagnoses with current technologies mostly comes when it’s too late to prevent major illness. But now, for the first time in a study published in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, a team of researchers from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, University of California, and University of Sydney, have discovered biomarkers in the blood that can predict the accumulation of toxic fats in the liver, which are a sign of early fatty liver disease. These predictions can be made based on the lipid (fats) profile in the blood.

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Mar 1, 2019

Study finds that in mice, lycopene in tomatoes reduced fatty liver disease, inflammation and liver cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension

In the fight against cancer, there is a surprising tool in the arsenal: the food we eat. That’s because some nutrients in food have been found to play a role in preventing cancer, and it’s relevant because the World Cancer Research Fund reports that 30 to 50 percent of cancer cases are preventable, putting a focus on stopping cancer from developing in the first place.

Xiang-Dong Wang, a senior scientist and associate director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Research Center on Aging at Tufts, studies how food can help prevent development, particularly lung, liver, and colon cancer.

Although the rate of most cancers is dropping, there is increasing concern about the rise in both incidence and death rate of liver cancer in the United States, partially due to the parallel rise in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, and diabetes.

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