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A look back at the most popular life extension articles of 2017.

The microbiome is emerging as a new player in human health. Researchers recently extended the lifespan of middle-aged animals by nearly 50% by infusing them with the poop of younger fish. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

Remember the young blood, old blood experiments in which the young blood of mice rejuvenated old mice?

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A look back at the most popular life extension articles of 2017.

Summary: A geroscientist is a new breed of a researcher who aims to understand and defeat human aging using a branch of study called geroscience. What these longevity researchers have in the pipeline just may surprise you. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

A new breed of a researcher called the geroscientist is striving to end aging as we know it.

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At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, we faced off with Omron’s Forpheus, a robot that learns from your every move and expression, and plays harder as you get better.

As compared to India, other BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa — had spent more of their GDP on research. Most of the developed countries, in fact, spent more than 2 per cent of their GDP on R&D.

India’s gross research spending has consistently been increasing over the years but the country’s total expenditure on R&D continues to be less than 1 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) when other emerging economies, including China and Brazil, invest more money on this head.

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SRF develops and promotes rejuvenation biotechnology — true preventative medicine for the diseases of aging: Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and more.

If you are reading this on January 16, 2018, then you are aware that Bitcoin (and the exchange rate of most other coins) fell by 20% today. Whenever I encounter a panic sell-off, the first thing that I do is try to ascertain if the fear that sparked the drop is rational.

But what is rational fear? How can you tell if this is the beginning of the end, or simply a transient dip? In my book, rational fears are fundamental facts like these:

• A new technical flaw is discovered in the math or mining
• A very major hack or theft has undermined confidence
• The potential for applications that are fast, fluid and ubiquitous
  has dropped, based on new information*

Conspicuously missing from this list is “government bans” or any regulation that is unenforceable, because it fails to account for the design of what it attempts to regulate. Taxes, accounting guidelines, reporting regulations are all fine! These can be enforced. But banning something that cannot be banned is not a valid reason for instilling fear in those who have a stake in a new product, process, or technology.

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In Montecito, a cleanup the likes of which California hasn’t seen before.

Segway’s autonomous security robots may soon be roaming stores near you.

The DNA of Hans Jonaton, an ex-slave who fled to Iceland in 1802, has been reconstructed using only the genes of his descendants.