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-Except this time, it just might work.
Everyone’s done this type of amateur Sherlock Holmes evaluation since they were born. But now, at the intersection of a facial-recognition technologist, a doctor, and Big Data, the studies might just prove both true and useful.
What Face My Age’s technology does…
Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.
Well now we can add another one to that growing list.
It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.
In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…
In this video, ASAPScience goes over some of the interesting and profound ways that meditation can affect your health.
Among the things they cover are empathy, learning, physical changes to the brain & stress.
And although it’s worth a watch, they did not go quite into the depth of the posts here and here,…
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In the future, thyroid medication and the problems that necessitated it, may be a thing of the past.
Thanks to some groundbreaking work by Sabine Costagliola at the Free University of Brussels, our old friend the Stem Cell has slain yet another dragon.
What Sabine’s team did was to get stem-cells to produce 2 compounds only found in the thyroid.
They then grew these special cells in petri-dishes,…
(figuratively)
I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to check out the full list of lifehack-style products & service innovations over at design-juggernaut IDEO,
-But By Far, my favorite of the bunch is the Snow White Evil Queen/Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come -style Aging Mirror.
I don’t know how far out they wanted to take the concept in its proposed future technological reach.
-But [at least in its most-blown-out-future-form] this could take a whole host of…
Links:
The Gray Mirror
at:IDEO-DesignOn:Aging
After 25 years of research about similar subjects especially in the cardiovascular arena and a little protein marker of aging we’ll name later, Dr. Douglas Vaughan and a team from Tohoku University in Japan have come up with a pretty interesting drug.
It’s not as “Dude, I know Kung-Fu”-Cool as The Mousechurian Candidate.
-But it Does prolong the life of mice almost 4x.
Ok, ok, now before we all start getting all crazy…
The Old Wives’ Tales Were Right:
-Ok, Elizabeth, Bram Stoker, and a million folk-tales across human history.
Well, scientists are proving these oldey-timey, gruesome omens just about right.
In what is actually just the latest in a history of experiments,
It turns out that blood transfused from a younger one to an older one Does in-fact make the older one a LOT more sprightly.
I only heard about this a year or two ago in the last big experiment, but it looks like…
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The interesting intersection between the ‘Old’ and New sciences of Stem Cells and 3D-Printing is starting to provide some amazing developments in both Life-Extension and Replacement-Parts.
The well-known windpipe-replacement is also one of the bigger successes in that category as of late.
*However, to make these things Truly Useful, there are still quite a few obstacles to overcome.
-And now, Make that quite a few, -Minus One.
Jennifer Lawrence Lewis and her team have come up with quite an ingenious…
