Scientists say that even if you don’t have the right genes you might still live to 100 years. The reality is that authors have retracted a study due to flawed data analysis on the genetic variants predicting longevity. So we are all back in the game, as we can live to a 100 years if [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 1, 2012
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Experts from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and the Boston Medical Centre have discovered the impact of genetic variants on human’s longevity. Their study confirmed that genes are crucial next to environmental and hereditary factors in explaining human lifespans. The researchers’ results were published in 2010 in Science in which the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 29, 2012
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In the future will the world really be revolutionized to a point where almost everything is possible? Rohit Talwar provides insight into the possibility to redefine the world of tomorrow. Rohit Talwar is a well-known global futurist who provides inspirational speech on various topics. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Fast Future Research, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 17, 2012
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The prolific scientist, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil provided intriguing responses in an interview with Time magazine writer Lev Grossman. The emphasis was on Kurzweil’s vision of the world, how will it change, what will happen to 3-D printing airplanes, increased-reality glasses and transformation of the education system? Some the most tantalizing prediction of Kurzweil [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 3, 2012
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In 2020, life will evolve significantly with nerves programed for pleasure and special mechanized eating habits. In the film, Surrogates, a potential future of the world is described. However, an authority where humans are changed into robotic avatars is simply a profanity to modern lifestyle. In 2017, only five years henceforth, hopefully, Surrogates will be [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 27, 2012
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The core of our strength lies in the so called mitochondria. The mitochondria are the body’s power plant providing energy to trillions of cells in our body. However, the energy released do gradually decrease as aging-diseases hits us year-by-year. In a recent study, it was shown that mitochondrial dysfunction is the main reason for a [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 26, 2012
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Professor Stephen Simpson has been appointed head of University of Sydney’s new multidisciplinary center emphasizing on addressing diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the field of School of Biological Sciences, as well as currently the scientific advisor to the Australian center of obesity. According to Vice-Chancellor of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 19, 2012
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From the Australasian Research Institute, a study at Sydney Adventist Hospital is revealing that people start to experience major signs of aging after the age of 50 years. Apparently, half-centenarians are in a typical phase where the body’s ability to heal itself from accumulative damage, generated by poor heating habits, lack of exercise and stress, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 18, 2012
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Young adults who are slowly adding years to their chronological age are certainly wondering why some people look younger while others older, despite being the same age. If you look back some 20 or even 30 years, you will be surprised to see that some of the people you had known in your graduation years [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 16, 2012
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If we go back 162 years, to year 1850, human lifespan was only 43 years but now in 2012, average lifespan is 80 years. The question is how old can humans really become? A book entitled “100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith,” [...]
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