Can the UAE become one of the world’s major centres for longevity research?
According to Betteridge’s Law, any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with a “no”. But let’s not be hasty. A few months ago, the UAE declared a shift in its healthcare policy...
View ArticlePreventing the brain from aging: profile of Jean Hébert
Machines can be fixed Jean Hébert wanted to be a molecular biologist long before he knew what the term meant. As a boy in elementary school in Montreal, Quebec, he decided that getting old was a bad...
View ArticleExtending health spans by extending telomeres: profile of Liz Parrish
Patient zero Liz Parrish was nervous. She was on a plane to Colombia, where she would undergo an untested gene therapy. She and her colleagues had spent two years developing the therapy and making the...
View ArticleRegenerating the thymus: profile of Greg Fahy
We heard a great deal about T cells during the Covid pandemic. They are crucial to resisting infection, and they are manufactured in your thymus, a small organ behind your breastbone. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleHow Insilico Medicine uses AI to accelerate drug development
Within the longevity research community, Alex Zhavoronkov is well-known for his relentless focus. He works seven days a week and takes no holidays. The hard work is paying off: In February, Insilico...
View ArticleWhat happens when everyone realises we can live much longer? We may find out...
Let’s not just cure cancer: let’s cure aging One of the most exciting areas of modern scientific research is the investigation of the causes and cures for aging. Not individual diseases like cancer and...
View ArticleJust $100bn to cure aging. A conversation with Andrew Steele
Ageless Andrew Steele is a Briton based in Berlin. At Oxford University he gained a PhD in physics, but then he switched to computational biology, and held positions at Cancer Research UK and the...
View ArticleLongevity, a $56 trillion opportunity. With Andrew Scott
In unguarded moments, politicians occasionally wish that retired people would “hurry up and die”, on account of the ballooning costs of pensions and healthcare. Andrew J Scott confronts this attitude...
View ArticleThe Death of Death. With Jose Cordeiro
An enthusiastic transhumanist One of the most intriguing possibilities raised by the exponential growth in the power of our technology is that within the lifetimes of people already born, death may...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Longevity? With Martin O’Dea
Martin O’Dea is the CEO of Longevity Events Limited, and the principal organiser of the annual Longevity Summit Dublin. In a past life, O’Dea lectured on business strategy at Dublin Business School. He...
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