A group of actuaries created a life expectancy calculator that calculates how many healthy years one could look forward to. eating right getting plenty of exercise, sleeping right, there were other factors. Education and income level, alcohol intake, safe driving smoking, if you have type 2 diabetes or not One’s perception of their own state …
Researchers used data on hand grip strength from more than 140,000 participants in the UK Biobank study, combined with 50,000 additional individuals from the UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Australia, to identify sixteen common genetic variants that are associated with muscle strength. A UK study from 2010 using the phenotype approach to defining frailty found a …
A study in the journal nature makes the case for maximum human lifespan increasing to 125 without radical life extension. Some previous work by other researchers argue that there is a limit to human lifespan of around 115 years, with their main rationale being that the maximum reported age at death (MRAD) in Japan, France, …
Since August 2016, Karmazin’s company, Ambrosia, has been transfusing people aged 35 and older with plasma – the liquid component of blood – taken from people aged between 16 and 25. So far, 70 people have been treated, all of whom paid Ambrosia to be included in the study. Blood biomarkers None of the people …
More older Americans – those ages 65 and older – are working than at any time since the turn of the century, and today’s older workers are spending more time on the job than did their peers in previous years. In May, 18.8% of Americans ages 65 and older, or nearly 9 million people, reported …
An Indonesian man claimed to be 146 years old – the longest living human ever. He died in his village in Central Java. According to his papers, Sodimedjo, also known as Mbah Ghoto (grandpa Ghoto), was born in December 1870. But Indonesia only started recording births in 1900 – and there have been mistakes before. …
The world’s oldest person has died in Italy at the age of 117, reports say. Emma Morano was born on 29 November 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. She was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living. She had attributed her longevity to her genetics and a diet of three eggs …
UNSW researchers have identified a critical step in the molecular process that allows cells to repair damaged DNA – and it could mean big things for the future of anti-ageing drugs, childhood cancer survivors and even astronauts. It could lead to a revolutionary drug that actually reverses ageing, improves DNA repair and could even help …
Israel is working on two large procurement deals with the United States for jet fighters and helicopters to upgrade two IAF squadrons. Funding is to come from part of the MoU signed in September between Jerusalem and Washington that would provide Israel with $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, to include American- …
President Trump as nominating Dr. Scott Gottlieb to be Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Gottlieb is a medical doctor and former FDA deputy commissioner. Gottlieb has advocated speeding up the approval complex generics — cheaper, copycat versions of products such as Mylan’s allergy jab, the EpiPen, and Copaxone, an injection for multiple …
In the TV show Game of Thrones, there is a common warning – Winter is Coming. It refers to an impending war and attack of Zombies. There has been steady stream of articles and studies that to detail concerns about automation and in particular artificial intelligence enhanced automation devastating entire categories of work. The warnings …