South Korean plastic surgeons are among the best in the world. In fact they’re so good that people from other countries like China and Japan are actually having trouble getting back home. That’s sounds really crazy, but it’s true. When most people get a nose job or a lip job, they just look like ‘enhanced’ …
Keeping blood and blood components in the condition of someone who is young is being shown to have antiaging effects. Blood accounts for 7% of the human body weight. There is a great deal of progress being made with tissue engineering and organ replacement via a number of sources. Either by taking genetically modified pig …
Here is more of the research and description of the rejuvenation of brains and muscles in mice using young blood GDF11 protein. Injections of a protein known as GDF11, which is found in humans as well as mice, improved the exercise capability of mice equivalent in age to that of about a 70-year-old human, and …
China National Nuclear Power Co Ltd plans to raise 16.3 billion yuan ($2.60 billion) in the industry’s first initial public offering, as part of the world’s biggest expansion of civilian nuclear power capacity. State-owned China National Nuclear said in a preliminary prospectus on the regulator’s website that it plans to sell 3.651 billion shares, or …
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NExtbigfuture covered research last year on the blood protein GDF11 from young mice which seems to rejuvenate older mice. In recent years, researchers studying mice found that giving old animals blood from young ones can reverse some signs of aging, and last year one team identified a growth factor in the blood that they think …
Memory loss could soon be a thing of the past. US military researchers say they’re developing a new brain implant that could restore mental faculties. This could bring a new lease of life to millions around the world, but raises ethical concerns. The project is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), and …
C Spire is using the Google Fiber plan as a blueprint for building its own fiber-to-the-home network that the company hopes will eventually blanket Mississippi. C Spire is a regional wireless operator that owns its own infrastructure. Since 2003, the company has invested more than $1 billion in network infrastructure improvements, including upgrading its cellular …
1. ANS Nuclear Cafe – “Food Irradiation Can Save Thousands of Lives Each Year” by Lenka Kollar “Not using irradiation is the single greatest public health failure of the last part of the 20th century in America,” says Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of …
The Carnival of Space 352 is up at Everyday Spacer Universe Today – NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) literally ‘saw the light’ just days before crashing into the lunar farside last Thursday April 17. Skimming just a few kilometers above the moon’s surface, mission controllers took advantage of this unique low angle …
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