There is a bet on the prediction site Metaculus, that asks will US labor force participation drop below 10%? The formulation of the argument for the question focuses on automation and a related question on Whole Brain Emulation or other paths to Artificial General Intelligence. The U.S. labor participation rate stood at 61.4% as of …
As life expectancies around the world increase, so are the number of people who will experience age-related cognitive decline. The amount of oxygen in the blood declines with age. Aging in the brain might be naturally held at bay by adenosine receptor A2B (ADORA2B), a protein on the membrane of red blood cells which 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 …
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 …
There are two huge aspects to a new antiaging drug. The first aspect is that a large portion of age-related brain decline is not permanent damage. This non-permanent damage is repaired overnight by a new antiaging drug. The Google-back antiaging company, Calico, has licensed the drug. A new University of San Francisco antiaging drug, called …
AgelessRx claims that PEARL is the first nationwide telemedicine trial and one of the first large-scale intervention trials on Longevity. The human trial is a stepping stone to the way to bringing rapamycin to the Longevity market. PEARL (Participatory Evaluation of Aging with Rapamycin for Longevity) is a $600,000 trial with the University of California. …
As you get older, key genes that maintain life are no longer activated. George Church is focused on turning youth-boosting genes back on. His company, Rejuvenate Bio, has begun clinical trials in old dogs. This will help us determine which ages of humans would best benefit. George believes they will be able to help people …
There are iconic looks for different decades. There was changing fashion, cars and devices that we carried. The look of the 1950s was immortalized in the movie American Graffiti and the TV show Happy Days. The iconic cars were early station wagons, convertibles, Studebakers, Hudson cars, motorcycles. There was a high percentage of kids because …
Life expectancy by year from 1900 to 2000 in the US had the following changes. From 1900 to 1920 life expectancy went from 47 to 54. From 1918 to 1921 life expectancy went from 39 to 60 WW1 and Spanish flu had a lot of youthful deaths that drove down the average age of death …
Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, Calif., and Nanjing University in China, have identified synergistic cellular pathways for longevity that amplify lifespan fivefold in C. elegans, a nematode worm used as a model in aging research. These pathways are also in …
George Church indicates Rejuvenate Bio is working toward combination gene therapy against 300+ human genes that effect aging. There is also progress in super-resolution imaging of chromosomes and hyper-detailed tissue analysis. They will be able to analyze the DNA in the chromosome without breaking it up and knowing the exact position of the DNA. Microscopic …