People who live beyond 105 years are more efficient at repairing DNA, according to a study published today in eLife. Paolo Garagnani and colleagues, in collaboration with several research groups in Italy and a research team led by Patrick Descombes at Nestlé Research in Lausanne, Switzerland, recruited 81 semi-supercentenarians (those aged 105 years or older) …
In Italy, births plunged 21.6% in December, 2020 from the December 2019 and France had the lowest total babies born in a year since WW2. National birth levels seem to be down around 2-20% around the world. Historically short baby busts are followed by rebounds. A longer crisis increases the chances that potential births aren’t …
If we look at the mortality tables, it can explain why reversing aging damage reversal has to work very well for people to live very long lives. Let us imagine that we are able to reverse aging damage so that someone is 65 or older has the same amount of aging as someone who is …
Aubrey de Grey has been the leading voice for antiaging, aging reversal and aging damage repair for over twenty years. He founded the SENS non-profit (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). There have been six antiaging companies that have been directly spun out of SENS. SENS is researching the hardest problems related to fixing aging …
The 2020s could see the true birth of true 21st Century Technology. Fully Reusable Rockets Instead of Planes Fully reusable SpaceX Starships will lower the cost to access space by ten to one hundred times. There will be thousands of Starships built by 2030. Each can cost less then $20 million which is ten times …
Liz Parrish runs Bioviva and they are working towards antiaging gene therapy. She also reviewed the current state of this work. There are over 300 studies of gene therapy targeting various aspects of aging and age related diseases. SOURCES – Bioviva Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …
Bill Faloon leads groups that are passionate about antiaging and doing everything possible today. They track the science and medical literature closely to find optimal lifestyles. The best practices now are diet and exercise and Omega-3 and some other drugs. They are strongly supporting of intermittent fasting. The main journal is the Aging journal. SOURCES- …
Antiaging expert Aubrey de Grey says there is a 50% chance that we reach longevity escape velocity by 2035. I now think there is a 50% chance that we will reach longevity escape velocity by 2036. After that point (the "Methuselarity"), those who regularly receive the latest rejuvenation therapies will never suffer from age-related ill-health …
Antiaging expert Aubrey de Grey says antiaging science is considerably closer to robust mouse rejuvenation than we were 10 years ago and the gap between the achievement of robust mouse rejuvenation and the achievement of robust human rejuvenation is also coming down quite fast. Aubrey de Grey is the co-founder of the SENS research foundation …
Nextbigfuture has framed levels of world altering economic progress and identified progress we are making with key super technologies that has massive world changing potential. There are examples of significant world-changing developments and technologies. There was the rise of China, the rise and impact of the internet and cellphones-smartphones. There was the first impact of …
People who reach a comfortable retirement have savings, assets and investments that enable them to pay for their spending without being required to work. Financial institutions and governments have described this as an achievable and desirable state for most of the middle class. It was generally argued that it was a crisis that people would …
