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Jan 14, 2019
Our galaxy is due for a catastrophic collision, study says
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
(CNN) — While astronomers estimate that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own Milky Way galaxy 8 billion years from now, they now believe that another collision will happen even sooner.
The Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion years, according to a study published this month in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The impact, which they believe is long overdue, has a chance of sending our solar system “hurtling through space.”
Our galaxy is orbited by smaller satellite galaxies, the kind of dance that can go on undisturbed for billions of years. Other times, things take a violent turn, and satellite galaxies can migrate toward the Milky Way until they collide and are gobbled up.
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Jan 14, 2019
UNITY Biotechnologies Selects a New Senolytic Candidate
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Another senolytic drug candidate has entered development at Unity Biotechnologies. The purpose of senolytics is to clear the body of harmful senescent cells, which accumulate with age and encourage age-related diseases to develop.
A new treatment for age-related diseases of the eye
Recently, UNITY Biotechnologies announced the selection of a new lead drug, UBX1967, with the goal of treating a range of age-related diseases of the eye. This is the second drug in the pipeline of this $677 million company. This drug is unique in the world of eye treatment; it targets and destroys senescent cells, making it a senolytic that targets one of the root causes of aging to treat disease.
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Jan 14, 2019
This year we will start discovering more new biological molecules
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biological, genetics, neuroscience
2019 will be the year in which we discover molecules and properties that are as yet unknown to humans. The breadth of biology and the enormous flexibility of genetic material will provide us with an ideal platform to explore an effectively unlimited number of molecules for novel materials and solutions. We will ultimately leave behind hydrocarbons and truly enter the biological age.
Joshua Hoffman is cofounder and CEO of Zymergen
– Meet the companies fixing depression by stimulating neurons.
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Jan 14, 2019
Transhumanist science will free women from their biological clocks
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biological, genetics, geopolitics, health, science, transhumanism
I’m excited to share my new article from Quartz on how science will make it safer and easier for a 50-year-old woman to have a child in 2028 than a 25-year-old woman today. #IVG and #DelayedFertilityAdvantage are game changers.
Women’s biological clocks drive human conception—and, in turn, human history.
Biology’s inflexible window of female fertility is generally agreed to be between the ages 18 and 35. Any older, and the risk of miscarrying, not getting pregnant at all, or bearing unhealthy children skyrockets. When the average lifespan for a woman in the Western world now hovers at around 80 years old, this means that less than 25% of her life can be spent easily (and safely) procreating.
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Jan 14, 2019
MIT Quantum Computing Online Courses for Professionals
Posted by James Christian Smith in categories: business, computing, quantum physics
The quantum computing revolution is upon us. Like the first digital computers, quantum computers offer the possibility of technology exponentially more powerful than current systems. They stand to change companies, entire industries, and the world by solving problems that seem impossible today and will likely disrupt every industry.
MIT is offering online courses for professionals in Quantum Computing. Learn the business implifications, and applications of quantum, and take the next step in your career.
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Jan 14, 2019
What will people wear in the future? | The Economist
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: finance, robotics/AI, sustainability, wearables
Innovation in fashion is sparking radical change. In the future clothes could be computers, made with materials designed and grown in a lab.
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Jan 14, 2019
Delivery of 45 Age Reversing Gene Therapies at Once is Under Peer Review
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
George Church revealed progress on aging reversal using gene therapies. They have delivered 45 gene therapies to provide aging reversal. They find the combined treatment is effective against obesity, diabetes, osteoarthritis, cardiac damage and kidney disease.
This is the work that Nextbigfuture has been expecting from George’s company Rejuvenate Bio.
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