August 26, 2017 |
brian wang |
For the last two decades, researchers started comparing the health of diabetics on metformin to those taking other diabetes drugs. Metformin-takers tended to be healthier in all sorts of ways. They lived longer and had fewer cardiovascular events, and in …
August 23, 2017 |
brian wang |
23 year old Laura Deming started the Longevity Fund which just closed its second fund with $22 million. The first fund was for $4 million. Longevity fund companies target breakthrough antiaging technology including addressing senescent cells, new genome editing, mTorc …
August 9, 2017 |
brian wang |
The brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability to learn, remember, and adapt. Now, scientists at University of Utah Health report they can rejuvenate the plasticity of the mouse brain, specifically in the visual cortex, increasing its ability to …
June 28, 2017 |
brian wang |
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 …
June 12, 2017 |
brian wang |
Oisin Biotechnologies differs from other companies producing senolytic therapies, the name given to treatments that destroy senescent cells, in one very important way. The Oisin technology is highly adaptable, and can be programmed to kill any class of cell that …
June 5, 2017 |
brian wang |
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 …
May 2, 2017 |
brian wang |
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. …
