Overview for AI Medicine Software Market Helps in providing scope and definitions, Key Findings, Growth Drivers, and Various Dynamics.

AI Medicine Software Market Data and Acquisition Research Study with Trends and Opportunities 2019-2024The study of AI Medicine Software market is a compilation of the market of AI Medicine Software broken down into its entirety on the basis of types, application, trends and opportunities, mergers and acquisitions, drivers and restraints, and a global outreach. The detailed study also offers a board interpretation of the AI Medicine Software industry from a variety of data points that are collected through reputable and verified sources. Furthermore, the study sheds a lights on a market interpretations on a global scale which is further distributed through distribution channels, generated incomes sources and a marginalized market space where most trade occurs.

Along with a generalized market study, the report also consists of the risks that are often neglected when it comes to the AI Medicine Software industry in a comprehensive manner. The study is also divided in an analytical space where the forecast is predicted through a primary and secondary research methodologies along with an in-house model.

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Key players in the global AI Medicine Software market covered in Chapter 4:Tempus Labs, Inc.Flatiron Health, Inc.Gene42, Inc.Sunquest Information Systems Inc2bPrecise LLCNantHealth, IncIBM Watson GroupHuman Longevity, Inc.N-of-One, Inc.Translational Software, IncSOPHiA GENETICS SASyapse, Inc.LifeOmic Health, LLCPierianDx, IncFabric GenomicsFoundation Medicine, Inc.Koninklijke Philips N.V.

In Chapter 11 and 13.3, on the basis of types, the AI Medicine Software market from 2015 to 2026 is primarily split into:Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingOthers

In Chapter 12 and 13.4, on the basis of applications, the AI Medicine Software market from 2015 to 2026 covers:Drug DiscoveryPrecision MedicineOthers

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2015-2026) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13:North America (Covered in Chapter 6 and 13)United StatesCanadaMexicoEurope (Covered in Chapter 7 and 13)GermanyUKFranceItalySpainRussiaOthersAsia-Pacific (Covered in Chapter 8 and 13)ChinaJapanSouth KoreaAustraliaIndiaSoutheast AsiaOthersMiddle East and Africa (Covered in Chapter 9 and 13)Saudi ArabiaUAEEgyptNigeriaSouth AfricaOthersSouth America (Covered in Chapter 10 and 13)BrazilArgentinaColumbiaChileOthers

For a global outreach, the AI Medicine Software study also classifies the market into a global distribution where key market demographics are established based on the majority of the market share. The following markets that are often considered for establishing a global outreach are North America, Europe, Asia, and the Rest of the World. Depending on the study, the following markets are often interchanged, added, or excluded as certain markets only adhere to certain products and needs.

Here is a short glance at what the study actually encompasses:Study includes strategic developments, latest product launches, regional growth markers and mergers & acquisitionsRevenue, cost price, capacity & utilizations, import/export rates and market shareForecast predictions are generated from analytical data sources and calculated through a series of in-house processes.

However, based on requirements, this report could be customized for specific regions and countries.

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Some Point of Table of Content:

Chapter One: Report Overview

Chapter Two: Global Market Growth Trends

Chapter Three: Value Chain of AI Medicine Software Market

Chapter Four: Players Profiles

Chapter Five: Global AI Medicine Software Market Analysis by Regions

Chapter Six: North America AI Medicine Software Market Analysis by Countries

Chapter Seven: Europe AI Medicine Software Market Analysis by Countries

Chapter Eight: Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Market Analysis by Countries

Chapter Nine: Middle East and Africa AI Medicine Software Market Analysis by Countries

Chapter Ten: South America AI Medicine Software Market Analysis by Countries

Chapter Eleven: Global AI Medicine Software Market Segment by Types

Chapter Twelve: Global AI Medicine Software Market Segment by Applications 12.1 Global AI Medicine Software Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Applications (2015-2020) 12.1.1 Global AI Medicine Software Sales and Market Share by Applications (2015-2020) 12.1.2 Global AI Medicine Software Revenue and Market Share by Applications (2015-2020) 12.2 Drug Discovery Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.3 Precision Medicine Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.4 Others Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020)

Chapter Thirteen: AI Medicine Software Market Forecast by Regions (2020-2026) continued

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List of tablesList of Tables and Figures Table Global AI Medicine Software Market Size Growth Rate by Type (2020-2026) Figure Global AI Medicine Software Market Share by Type in 2019 & 2026 Figure Machine Learning Features Figure Natural Language Processing Features Figure Others Features Table Global AI Medicine Software Market Size Growth by Application (2020-2026) Figure Global AI Medicine Software Market Share by Application in 2019 & 2026 Figure Drug Discovery Description Figure Precision Medicine Description Figure Others Description Figure Global COVID-19 Status Overview Table Influence of COVID-19 Outbreak on AI Medicine Software Industry Development Table SWOT Analysis Figure Porters Five Forces Analysis Figure Global AI Medicine Software Market Size and Growth Rate 2015-2026 Table Industry News Table Industry Policies Figure Value Chain Status of AI Medicine Software Figure Production Process of AI Medicine Software Figure Manufacturing Cost Structure of AI Medicine Software Figure Major Company Analysis (by Business Distribution Base, by Product Type) Table Downstream Major Customer Analysis (by Region) Table Tempus Labs, Inc. Profile Table Tempus Labs, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Flatiron Health, Inc. Profile Table Flatiron Health, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Gene42, Inc. Profile Table Gene42, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Sunquest Information Systems Inc Profile Table Sunquest Information Systems Inc Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table 2bPrecise LLC Profile Table 2bPrecise LLC Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table NantHealth, Inc Profile Table NantHealth, Inc Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table IBM Watson Group Profile Table IBM Watson Group Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Human Longevity, Inc. Profile Table Human Longevity, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table N-of-One, Inc. Profile Table N-of-One, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Translational Software, Inc Profile Table Translational Software, Inc Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table SOPHiA GENETICS SA Profile Table SOPHiA GENETICS SA Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Syapse, Inc. Profile Table Syapse, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table LifeOmic Health, LLC Profile Table LifeOmic Health, LLC Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table PierianDx, Inc Profile Table PierianDx, Inc Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Fabric Genomics Profile Table Fabric Genomics Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Foundation Medicine, Inc. Profile Table Foundation Medicine, Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Koninklijke Philips N.V. Profile Table Koninklijke Philips N.V. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Figure Global AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Global AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) Table Global AI Medicine Software Sales by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Regions in 2015 Table Global AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Regions in 2019 Figure North America AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Europe AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Middle East and Africa AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure South America AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure North America AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) Table North America AI Medicine Software Sales by Countries (2015-2020) Table North America AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure North America AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure North America AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries in 2019 Table North America AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) by Countries (2015-2020) Table North America AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure North America AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure North America AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2019 Figure United States AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Canada AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Mexico AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth (2015-2020) Figure Europe AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) Growth (2015-2020) Table Europe AI Medicine Software Sales by Countries (2015-2020) Table Europe AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Europe AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Europe AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries in 2019 Table Europe AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) by Countries (2015-2020) Table Europe AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Europe AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Europe AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2019 Figure Germany AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure UK AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure France AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Italy AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Spain AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Russia AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) Table Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Sales by Countries (2015-2020) Table Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Sales Market Share by Countries in 2019 Table Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) by Countries (2015-2020) Table Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Asia-Pacific AI Medicine Software Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2019 Figure China AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Japan AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure South Korea AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Australia AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure India AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Southeast Asia AI Medicine Software Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Middle East and Africa AI Medicine Software Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) continued

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Michal Mor hopes that one day, checking metabolism could be as routine as brushing your teeth. The vision is that everyone manages lifestyle based on their unique metabolism, she says. Its this metric that will help us live longer and healthier.

In May, Mor and her twin sister Merav both of them Ironman competitors with doctorates in psychology launched Lumen. The device, they say, helps users track and hack their metabolism. Its a simple concept: Breathe into the small black device, no bigger than an asthma inhaler, and receive a status report on what's called your metabolic flexibility. Then use that information to make lifestyle changes to boost performance and see an uptick in health.

The gadget has arrived among rising clamour from biohackers, intermittent fasting aficionados and rival tech developers (such as ketosis tracker Keyto) that insist the secret to a long, healthy life boils down to one major thing: our metabolism.

Are they right?

Loosely speaking, metabolism refers to the bodily processes that supply us with energy. These collective processes are designed to move primarily between two major states: absorptive (fed) and postabsorptive (fasting). In the former, usually after a meal, the body burns carbohydrates from food and stores excess as glycogen for later use. In the latter, it burns this stored fuel instead. (There is a third state, starvation, but it only occurs where the body is deprived of nutrients for an extended period of time and begins to break down muscle.) Metabolic flexibility is the term used to describe the efficiency and speed with which you move between the two states.

Despite throwing up 42 million search results on Google and acting as the main talking point at biohacking summits the world over, the concept of metabolic flexibility has only been circulating for about two decades. In 1999, endocrinologist David E. Kelley compared the effects of an overnight fast on lean versus obese patients. Leaner people, he found, adapted far more quickly, their bodies promptly switching to a postabsorptive state. Obese patients didnt adapt nearly as fast they were metabolically inflexible.

In the years since Kelley coined the term, its become very sexy, says Eric Ravussin, director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. In fact, its been adopted as a sort of shorthand for optimal health. Red hot chilies, ice-cold showers and endless cups of green tea are just a few of the hacks recommended online by people who argue we can push our metabolism more efficiently between these two states to achieve goals in weight loss, exercise and overall health.

As Kelleys initial discovery would suggest, there is evidence of a link between metabolic flexibility and both weight management and exercise. A 2019 paper published in Cell Metabolism found the bodys ability to switch between fuels in response to the composition of diet was linked to a susceptibility to weight gain. And a review published in the same journal two years earlier highlighted evidence that efficiently matching fuel availability with metabolic machinery could help boost athletic performance.

But Merav Mor, and other advocates, go far beyond metabolic flexibility as a tool for weight loss or shaving a few seconds off a 100-meter sprint. They claim that it can help create a stronger immune system, improve sleep and boost longevity.

The science doesnt back up these broader health claims, though, says Ravussin. Not least because a robust human study would take 100 years, he points out. The only indicators we have of a link between metabolic flexibility and longevity right now are in mice. A 2015 review in Nature Cell Biology confirmed that studies have shown calorie restriction in mice can improve metabolic flexibility and increase lifespan.

It's like any other kind of bright, shiny object, says Susan Roberts, lead scientist of the Energy Metabolism Team at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging. Something new comes into science, and it sounds so attractive we think that maybe it's the solution to everybody's problem. But does metabolic flexibility account for 1 percent of health? 50 percent? 0.01 percent? That, for me, remains the question.

The other question is, what can we do about it?

The creators of Lumen say we all have the capacity to hack metabolic flexibility for optimal health. Its devices provide users with a metabolic level based on the composition of a single breath, or whats known as respiratory quotient (RQ). The idea is that when our metabolism is in a postabsorptive or fasted state, less carbon dioxide is released. Holding your breath for 10 seconds before exhaling into the device, Lumen say, captures this RQ and gives an accurate reading on your current metabolic state.

The premise is that a healthy body is one that relies on fat stores in the morning, says Mor. If the device detects this postabsorptive state first thing, then youre on the right track. If not, Lumen recommends lifestyle changes around sleep, exercise or diet, that help you improve it for next time. Easy.

Or is it?

There are links between lifestyle factors and metabolic performance. Sleep deprivation can damage overall metabolic health, for instance, while regular exercise can help prevent diseases linked to metabolism, such as type 2 diabetes.

But our ability to hack metabolism is limited. Your metabolism is mostly determined by your body composition and your genetic background, says Ravussin. Back in the 90s, Ravussin studied Pima Indians living in Arizona over an eight year period a group with the second highest prevalence of obesity in the world. Genes, he discovered, were crucial.

Even [which] Mor accepts that factors such as age and historic activity levels play into the extent to which you can tinker with metabolism. But theres no question about seeing improvement, she says.

For Roberts, of all the various ways we can boost health, painstakingly tracking metabolism isnt where she would focus efforts now. We need another couple of years of studies and then maybe it'll prove to be important, she says. But at this point, there are more important things. Do you eat junk food? Do you eat late at night? Do you stop eating at 6 p.m. and give your stomach time to recover? These are areas with really good evidence. This is all just a bit premature.

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Although traveling to new places and experiencing new adventures is a great way to see the world, it is no secret that there are negative environmental effects of mass tourism. As you begin to think about your next vacation, perhaps look into a lower-impact alternative to mass tourism, which is ecotourism.

Ecotourism is a carefully curated way to see fragile, undisturbed natural areas of nature. By partaking in ecotourism and helping to conserve parts of nature and wildlife, you have the opportunity to witness magnificent, once in a lifetime nature scenes up close and personal.

In efforts to push a safer, more eco-friendly mode of tourism, here are some of the benefits of seeing unique, and oftentimes threatened, natural environments through ecotourism.

Exposure

One of the great perks of taking an ecotourism-focused adventure is that you are exposed to new, less popular aspects of nature. Although traveling to incredibly popular sight-seeing destinations and visiting highly-visible attractions or monuments is exciting, there is so much else to see and explore.

Through ecotourism, you have the chance to see some of the most unique environments and view nature closer than ever. These types of excursions are much more exciting than viewing animals at your local zoo.

You may be able to see wildlife up close and within their wild, natural habitat, which isnt something you are able to experience every day. Ecotourism takes you along vast seascapes, wildlife habitats, and more, to view nature through an environmentally low-impact medium. With that being said, not only do you get to see nature from a new lens, but you also help to conserve many of the animals and habitats that are threatened or unprotected.

One example of ecotourism that aims to expose travelers to an abundance of magic is by experiencing bioluminescence. During the warmer months on the east coast of the U.S., there are many opportunities to see majestic sea life. On the shores of Florida, bioluminescent sea life lights up the dark water, exposing you to a once in a lifetime view of a glowing ocean.

Bioluminescence is a chemical process that permits living sea life to create light within their bodies. When the water is obstructed through wave creation or splashing from humans, the seawater begins to glow bright neon blue. This type of interactive experience exposes you to a side of nature that you may not otherwise get to witness.

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As you partake in ecotourism excursions, you can also receive an abundance of information educating you on topics pertaining to that areas wildlife and natural environments. For instance, you will see nature as it currently stands, as well as learn vital information on how to properly interact with wildlife and preserve these ecosystems.

Observing animals within a zoo environment does not always provide accurate insight into an animals daily life. Much of the animal culture within zoos are artificial. For instance, arctic penguin exhibits are usually not in climate-controlled areas where you can see them play on glaciers. Although zoos do a heap of good by protecting endangered animals, many animals endure stress from not being in the wild or having ample social interactions with other members of their species.

This takes away from witnessing authentic animal behavior within nature. By partaking in ecotourism, you can view animals that havent been displaced and also gather greater insight on how various species have become endangered, as well as how you can help.

As you travel, there is nothing like witnessing animals within their own wild environments where they are fully immersed in their own culture. Through these eco-tourism excursions, you are invited to submerge yourself within an animals environment and experience a small part of their daily lives.

Protection

By interacting with a natural environment through an ecotourism lens, you have the opportunity to leave it better than you found it. As a viewer and wildlife lover, ecotourism provides you with an outlet to minimize the negative impacts of tourism on these natural environments and protect what is left.

For example, you can transition from merely observing to positively interacting with these environments through participatory cleanup.

Alongside the provided education about how to conserve these environments, participatory cleanup is a great way to interact with nature on a personal level, all while ensuring that this environment and its wildlife can thrive. This can be demonstrated by cleaning up trash off the beaches and out of the ocean in efforts to prevent wildlife from dying as a result of human impact.

This acts as a way to protect species who oftentimes cannot differentiate between what is food and what is a plastic straw. By witnessing the impacts of humans on the environment while being in a proper wildlife setting, you can gather a comprehensive perspective and push to protect these habitats with proper knowledge and understanding.

Through exposure and education, we can work to protect wildlife spaces and ensure a better future for wildlife and their respective environments.

Human impact plays a large role in the longevity of the lifespans of wild animals and with your help, you can decrease the negative impacts and allow for a higher quality of life for these animals. As you begin to plan your next excursion, perhaps consider these benefits to ecotourism and push to protect the wildlife of that area. Take this opportunity to educate yourself, and your loved ones, on the many ways that animal harm can be prevented and how we can best conserve these natural areas.

Josh Myers is the owner of Florida Adventurer, a bioluminescence kayaking company. Josh is extremely passionate about ecotourism and the wildlife he interacts with on a daily basis. In order to further educate tourists around ecotourism, Josh ensures that each individual on his tours understands why and how to protect the indigenous animals that they encounter and how to conserve the natural area where he operates.

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Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help mankind address diseases related to ageing, and delay mortality? Gero, a Singaporean company with Russian roots, believes so. To address this biological and technological challenge, Gero has teamed up with the National University of Singapore, conducting experiments involving aged animals, reports East-West Digital News (EWDN).

These works demonstrated mortality delay (life-extension) and functional improvements after a single experimental treatment, says Gero.

Gero believes this new drug could enable patients to recover after a stroke and help cancer patients in their fight against accelerated ageing resulting from chemotherapy. Geros platform is also used to develop drugs in other areas including potential therapies for Covid-19.

Commenting on Gero, Dr. Nir Barzilai said that their research provides answers to the most important practical questions and translates the received knowledge into medical technologies to combat ageing. A professor of medicine and genetics, Dr. Nir Barzilai is director and leading aging researcher at the Einstein-Institute for Aging Research in New York City.

The company has just secured $2.2mn from an investor pool led by Belarusian fund Bulba Ventures. Gero previously raised more than $5mn, including through an undisclosed seed round in May last year, which also involved Bulba.

8 years of R&D Founded in Russia in 2012, Gero initially pursued a larger goal developing a computational technology to facilitate the discovery of small drug molecules.

We identified a series of drug candidates in-house and via partnerships, company founder Peter Fedichev told East-West Digital News.

For example, Fedichevs team identified a small molecule inhibitor of novel HIV targets as well as inhibitors for proteinprotein interactions TLR4 antagonist.

The company created a spinoff dedicated to metabolic reprogramming of neurons in excitotoxicity conditions. Another project to be announced later this year was developed with a leading US university, said Fedichev.

During these years, Gero also studied ways to use AI/ML approaches to tackle ageing.

This field became the exclusive focus of the startup in 2015. Gero gained access to large biobanks, aiming to develop next-gen modeling platforms for anti-aging targets and aging biomarkers identification.

We discovered and tested multiple life-extending interventions based on the predictive capacities of our platform, said Fedichev.

While the most promising therapeutic modalities in this field are currently under development, experiments with mice were prerequisites for future clinical trials. Such experiments were first conducted in France, then at the National University of Singapore at a much larger scale.

A single shot provides the systemic rejuvenation and mortality delay (life- extension), which is a definitive milestone for drug discovery AI, Fedichev told EWDN.

In 2019, the team published a research paper in Nature Research Journal about the application of machine learning techniques to big omics data as a means to discover anti-aging drugs. This became one of the most popular papers in the field of cell and molecular biology, notes Fedichev.

Asias anti-ageing appeal Why didnt Gero pursue its development from Russia? Fedichev points several reasons for moving to Singapore three years ago: First, this is a great place for doing business, and some of our investors were familiar with the jurisdiction. Second, we started a critically-important collaboration with the National University of Singapore. Finally, says Fedichev, it appears that the Singaporean government is ahead of the curve when it comes to ageing. It is very aggressive in tackling the related [health and wellness] challenges. The Singaporean authorities fund cutting-edge projects in this field, and contemplate innovative clinical trial strategies. Thus, Singapore is asserting itself at the forefront of ageing science and biotech developments, believes Fedichev. Asia is going to be hit hard by a silver tsunami, he notes, with 250mn senior citizens by 2025 in China only.

In 2016, researchers from Oxford Economics and AARP estimated the volume of the annual US longevity market alone at $7.1 trillion. They forecast that by 2032 this figure will almost double to $13.5 trillion.

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G.N. Ramachandran. Photo: Current Science, vol. 80, no. 8, April 2001/fair use.

The whole world is reeling under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The safest way out depends on manufacturing an effective vaccine. Many vaccine candidates are currently in different stages of clinical trials. A quick scan of the list suggests over half the candidates are attempting to use the novel coronaviruss spike protein to generate immunity, so getting its structure right is critical.

G.N. Ramachandrans work from the 1960s is notable in this regard. I was first introduced to his influence on structural biology as a graduate student and have always wished he were better known outside this niche field. His work has guided the design of protein-based vaccines and therapeutics touching everyday life. However, his isnt a household name even in India.

Ramachandran began his academic career as a student of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He was soon pulled into the physics department by C.V. Raman, who said, I am admitting Ramachandran into my department as he is a bit too bright to be in yours.

Under Raman, Ramachandran began research into the field of optics and X-ray topography. After graduation, he earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge, in the laboratory of Lawrence Bragg. He focused on X-ray crystallography, a technique used to analyse the structures of proteins.

Around the same time, the American physicist Linus Pauling was conducting groundbreaking work on the nature and structure of proteins. Paulings teaching and writings had a great influence on Ramachandran. So when the latter became a professor of physics at the University of Madras in 1952, he set up an X-ray crystallography laboratory to study biological structures.

Proteins are made of long-chain polymers called polypeptides. There can be one or multiple polypeptide chains that come together to form a protein. The novel coronaviruss spike protein comprises three identical peptide chains. Each chain consists of repeating units called amino acids. The chain folds into intricate shapes or motifs, such as helices and sheets. These shapes are significant; misfolded proteins often give rise to debilitating diseases.

The long orange region in the spike protein is the alpha helix and the pink region is a beta sheet. Mixing and matching of motifs form different protein structures required to ensure the protein performs its function. In this case, the spike proteins overall structure helps to bind with a protein on the surface of cells in the human nose and mouth.

The order of amino acids within a peptide chain dictates how it will fold. Amino acids take their name from the nitrogen-containing molecule (amino) on one end and the carbonyl group (acid) on the other, with a connecting carbon atom in the middle (C). The differences between amino acids come from a third part, called the side chain (R), which attaches to the central carbon atom.

In the mid-20th century, the idea of firing beams of X-rays at molecules to elucidate their structure based on how they diffracted the beams was new. In 1951, Pauling, Robert Corey and Herman Branson published their descriptions of the alpha helix and beta sheet motifs. Ramachandran wanted to continue this work, and chose to study the structure of collagen first.

Collagen is protein found abundantly in the human body: it makes up the bulk of our skin, cartilage and connective tissues. Together with his postdoctoral fellow, Gopinath Kartha, Ramachandran proposed a triple helix structure for collagen also called the Madras helix. However, Alexander Rich and Francis Crick contested this idea because they thought this structure allowed little space between atoms than was compatible with the prevailing understanding of chemistry.

This set Ramachandran and his colleagues C. Ramakrishnan and V. Sasisekharan on the path to further understand and describe the structures of polypeptide chains. They conducted a survey of the crystal structures available to determine how close two atoms could approach, and thus deduce the permissible interatomic distances within a polypeptide chain.

They also found that in a chain, each amino acid can only rotate around two bonds. Based on this they characterised two angles phi (), the angle between the nitrogen atom and the central carbon atom, and psi (), the angle between the carbonyl carbon atom and the central carbon. The figure below shows the two angles.

Now, they could plot all possible combinations of these angles within a given polypeptide sequence against each other, and eliminate any combination that violated the interatomic contact limits. And voila! They managed to reduce a messy biological problem to simple considerations in elementary mathematics.

The resulting Ramachandran plot changed how biochemists studied molecules of interest and unraveled complicated biological processes. Its a plot with phi on one axis and psi on the other. At a glance, the graph revealed islands of possible combinations separated by seas of impossible structures. If a molecules angles pulled it into the sea, biochemists would know it couldnt exist in the body and follow the laws of physical chemistry at the same time.

More broadly, biochemists today can quickly understand which structures are possible and which arent, and compare known and unknown structures in an intuitive manner. The Ramachandran plot has also become an elegant way to introduce students to protein structural biology and help them understand how structure and function are related to each other.

When Ramachandran died in 2001, at the age of 78, the tributes flooded in. One in particular, by Janet Thornton, published in an obituary by Easwara Subramanian, went thus:

I have never met Professor Ramachandran, but his contribution ranks with Paulings discovery of the -helix. It never fails to excite me, when I see the Ramachandran plot and realise how much of the beauty and order of protein structures is encapsulated by this plot. I also think that this major discovery highlights the importance of clear thought and vision that do not always need expensive equipment and huge teams of people.

The plots remarkable longevity is unsurprising given its endless significance in protein structural biology. It is vital that researchers independently validate different biological structures so that others who use those biological objects, like proteins, to develop drugs and vaccines can be sure they know the structure well enough. There exist a variety of algorithms that can check a structures accuracy using updated Ramachandran plots.

When they need to check the structure of an unknown protein, researchers compare data obtained from crystallographic studies and from theoretical calculations. The more the plots match, the more confident scientists can be that their structure is the right one.

Ramachandrans life is a testament to the power of curiosity, intellect and determination. Science education can be biased in favour of assigning credit to individuals, often white men of the West, over groups. In fact, science is an inherently collaborative endeavour, with each generation building on the work of previous ones. So just as we celebrate Ramachandrans life and work, lets also celebrate the lives and work of his students and collaborators who together helped advance the science of protein structural biology such that it has risen to the occasion in our present crisis as well.

Deepika Calidas is a biochemist. Her last position was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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DENVER, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --TLL The Longevity Labs GmbH, an Austrian-based life sciences company, and its wholly-owned, US subsidiary, Longevity Labs Inc., announce the market-launch of sales in the US of its award-winning dietary supplement,spermidineLIFE.spermidineLIFE is the world's first naturally extracted and clinically tested dietary supplement to promote cellular renewal. The active ingredient, spermidine, is considered key to slowing down the cellular aging process.

Until recently, fasting has been considered the most efficient method to trigger the critical cellular renewal process, called "autophagy;" however, European aging scientists have discovered that autophagy is also triggered through a substance found in the human body, called spermidine. As the body ages, spermidine levels decrease, along with the self-renewing power of its cells. In search of a way to offset the effects of decreasing spermidine levels, Longevity Labs developed a method to isolate spermidine from plants (wheat germ) and to make it available to humans as a dietary supplement -spermidineLIFE.

TLL The Longevity Labs GmbH ("TLL") launched its first flagship product,spermidineLIFE in the EU 2019, bringing the first commercially available, safety-tested, lab-verified, spermidine-rich supplement to the global market. Quickly becoming a phenomenon in Austria and Germany, in September 2020, TLL has begun distribution ofspermidineLIFE in the United States, through its subsidiary, Longevity Labs Inc., via its US website atwww.spermidinelife.us.

"We began with a common vision to support healthy aging. Spermidine was completely unknown in Austria but the scientific research, quality of our product and its effectiveness convinced the public.spermidineLIFE was voted one of the top 3 OTC product innovations in Austria in 2019 and interest has only continued to grow worldwide," says Vedran Bijelac, CEO of Longevity Labs Inc and Director of Sales and Marketing of TLL.

"We are proud to be the first scientifically tested and naturally-extracted spermidine supplement," says Daniel Dietz, COO of Longevity Labs Inc. "Not only do we want to present the health benefits of spermidine to the American population, we also want to find additional research partners. We are already working with more than 10 research institutions in Europe but the opportunity to work with top US scientists is very exciting."

spermidineLIFE is naturally extracted from European non-GMO wheat germ using TLL's proprietary extraction process in its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria.spermidineLIFE is lab-tested to ensure consistently rich spermidine content and has been tested for safety and tolerability in humans.

spermidineLIFE is available to consumers via its website via a monthly subscription model starting at $99. The supplement will also be available for one or more monthly package orders starting at $109. Wholesale pricing is available for practitioners.

For additional information or questions, please contactcontact@spermidinelife.com.

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About TLL The Longevity Labs, GmbHTLL The Longevity Labs, GmbH is based in Graz, Austria. With the goal of translating scientific findings into natural solutions for a longer and healthier life, TLL worked with european university research partners to develop its novel productspermidineLIFE, with EU sales launching in 2019 and expanding worldwide. TLL continues to perform best-in-class research on life-extending products and services to bring to the global marketplace. For more information, visitwww.spermidinelife.com(global) orwww.spermidinelife.us(United States).

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A global nightmare put an end toLe Rve, French for The Dream. But the aquatic revue at Wynn Las Vegas had a charmed life for most of its 15 years, provided you could keep up with that ever-shifting quality people associate with their own dreams.

Granted, you dont expect a lot of solid footing in a water show, where the audience surrounded the high-divers and the acrobatics staged in and above a pool. And only in Las Vegas would we already have one.

When it opened in 2005,Le Rvewas initially dismissed as a bungled knock-off of Cirque du SoleilsO. But on it ran, rarely sitting still as it worked to distance itself. The hotel was always announcing some new addition or revision, with a lot of chefs in the kitchen. And some of the most specific decisions, down to the music and costumes, were made by the chef who had a whole company to oversee: hotel namesake Steve Wynn.

August 14 brought the news thatLe Rvewould remain closed even after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, ending another old-Vegas anomaly: The show was 100 percent owned by Wynn Resorts, and its cast and crew were hotel employees. That didnt mean much to ticket-buyers, unless they stepped back to notice that nearly every other theater space in town was leased to independent producers who took on most of the risk. But its also a likely explanation for why the hotel chose not to wait out the pandemic.

Brian Burke was the shows artistic director for six years, and is now a producer on NBCsAmericas Got Talent. He says that compared to California, Nevada officials havent done a good job of coordinating a reopening plan with its entertainment industry. You cant buy a show ticket, but you can sit down in the restaurant next to theLe Rvetheater and have dinner, he notes. If a show isnt even allowed to test whether it could, say, run three times a day for a one-third capacity house, Nobody can sustain paying people for that long.

It takes a good memory now to recall times so good the Strip could havetwomultimillion-dollar aquatic shows, and the biggest challenge was trying to make them stand apart from one another.Le Rvewasnt supposed to be a direct competitor ofO. It evolved from plans for a short outdoor water show to be staged several times a day, and the original $12 million budget was a fraction of Cirques. But it evolved into more of what people expected it to be, a schizophrenic mix of what was then expected of Cirque-era Vegas, and the restless ambition of Steve Wynn and former Cirque director Franco Dragone.

People were dumping money down the street atKA(the Cirque show that cost at least $165 million), and Franco wanted to make a human-based show, Burke recalls. But Wynn pumped at least another $25 million more into makingLe Rvelighter and brighter. His obsession some would call it micromanaging with the aquacade hearkened back to an earlier, pre-corporate era of Las Vegas, when properties were defined by their entertainment and the colorful figures in charge of it.

Wynn and Dragone had already transformed the Strip with CirquesMystereandO, but their relationship was, well, complicated, and for a time Dragone was out of the picture altogether. I prefer Cezanne, and he loves Matisse, Dragone once explained.

Changes came early and often, starting with a quick and drastic overhaul in the week after Dragone shocked some patrons of a charity premiere by showing them pregnant women doing belly flops and fishing nets dredging up eerie reminders of another global catastrophe the previous years giant tsunami. (I am not the same man I was in 98, Dragone explained. I have seen 9/11. I have seen the Iraq war, Katrina. Yes,Le Rveis darker, but why not?). And it was still being tweaked by yet another creative hand, Broadway director Philip McKinley, almost up to the week in February 2018 when Wynn resigned as chairman of his company amid accusations of sexual misconduct.

The friction sort of became the gold in a way, Burke says now. Those guys are dreamers, theyre big thinkers, and I feel the influence of working with them.

Le Rvewas sure sexier than its Cirque counterpart, once it settled into a storyline focused on the erotic longings of a beautiful dreamer, as the old song goes. "It's very hard to take the Cirque references out," Wynn noted in late 2007, as he explored new corners of pop culture by recruiting Maksim Chmerkovskiy, ofDancing with the Stars, to add ballroom dancing to the aquatic mix.

Everyone was there as a collective, and even though it was run by a corporate entity, it was intimate, personal, hands-on, Burke says. It was a family environment, and everyone really believed in it. Everybody didnt become a number. And thats why people have such passion about the fact that it closed.

The price of longevity is becoming just another fixture on the Strips landscape, one that locals tend to forget until visitors came to town. But, unlike the faded showgirl opusJubilee, no one no one imaginedLe Rvewould close after only 15 years.Jubileewas another rare hotel-owned production, and its closing was said to owe less to the waning appeal of showgirls than the desire to get all those cast and crew members off the hotel payroll. It wouldnt be wild speculation to wonder if, once the pandemic is over, an outside producer maybe even one named Dragone would turn the spigots back on and stage a new show on the water.

My ultimate hope would be that the pandemic ends, and Franco and I would be the ones to get to do the newLe Rve, Burke says. We dont just want to go in like a vulture, but its like a piece of your soul and your heart is there.

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According to Professor Liddle, this study used stem cells derived from human umbilical vein and human fat that were re-programmed to generate human islet-like organoids (HILOs).

Pancreatic islets are regions in the pancreas responsible for the production of hormones and insulin.

Pancreatic islets contain multiple cell types, not just insulin-producing beta cells. The research team created three-dimensional HILOs that not only include beta-like cells (the cells that produce, store and release insulin in the islets of the pancreas), but also other supporting cell types found in normal islets, said Professor Liddle.

Under the microscope, and using gene sequencing analysis, we are able to show that the three-dimensional HILOs are very similar to human islets. When the HILOs are transplanted into diabetic mice, they secrete insulin when blood glucose levels are high, just as normal islets would.

While human pancreatic islet transplantation has been a major advancement in treating severe cases of type 1 diabetes, the availability, quality and limited cellular longevity of this approach limits its application.

Pancreatic islet transplantation currently involves implanting insulin-producing islet cells from a deceased human donor into the liver of a person with type 1 diabetes. When successful, the procedure can control blood glucose levels, reduce the frequency and severity of hypoglycaemic episodes and potentially eliminate the need for regular insulin injections. A number of transplants are usually needed, and immunosuppressant drugs to prevent the immune system from attacking the transplanted cells are also required.

While the procedure is now funded by the Australian Government, pancreatic islet transplantation is currently limited to people with severely unstable type 1 diabetes, particularly those for whom insulin therapy alone is not effective and who experience recurrent and severe hypoglycaemic episodes.

Professor Philip OConnell is Executive Director at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research and pioneered pancreatic islet transplantation in Australia. Almost 20-years ago, he led Australias first pancreatic islet transplantation trials at Westmead Hospital and The Westmead Institute for Medical Research. Today, he continues his research, aiming to improve this procedure and develop islet transplantation as a mainstream treatment for type 1 diabetes.

Professor OConnell, who was not involved in this research study, said, Pancreatic islet transplantation has saved hundreds of lives around the globe however, it has its limitations. For example, pancreatic islets are taken from deceased donors, and the wait for donor islets can be lengthy. Once donor islets are obtained, not all are suitable for transplantation.

This research indicates the potential to alleviate some of these issues. Stem cells derived from readily available human tissues can be expanded then re-programmed into potentially unlimited numbers of islets that are suitable for transplantation.

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Specific dietary changes, like including natural supplements, can help in enhancing sexual energy in women. Aphrodisiacs are the foods, drinks, or drugs that help increase female libido. Cannabis is another such natural aphrodisiac that can help increase womens libido. Cannabis can also help in reducing the pain during penetration experienced by some women.

According to a study, women who ate cannabis experienced two times higher sex drives, with satisfactory orgasms than those with irregular cannabis usage. Cannabis interacts with endocannabinoids in the body, which help regulate sexual function. Women can use cannabis as an aphrodisiac in many ways. Earlier, people used to take it in the form of a beverage, but today, there are many different consumption methods. Women can also use cannabis as lubricants, helping in reducing pain during sex.

Mental health disorders affect both men and women, but theyre more severe in women. Various factors like career, family responsibility, and abuse are significant causes of mental issues in women. The most common mental illness in women is depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, often challenging to diagnose.

According to an article, cannabis has antidepressant traits that help decrease anxiety and depression in women. The depletion of serotonin in the brain leads to depression. However, taking cannabis in low doses helps release serotonin, which causes anti-depressant effects. This can help in alleviating stress and anxiety, as well as assisting in doing day-to-day activities.

These are some of the benefits of cannabis for women. Research states that one should always use cannabis from low doses to reap the right health benefits. Buy cannabis products from reputed shops that will provide authentic cannabis products. Make sure to check the THC and CBD content in the product to understand the dosage. You may need to think twice if you have any medical condition or are taking any medication. If you fall into either of these groups, make sure to consult a health professional before starting cannabis.

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Directed by: Gina Prince-BythewoodStarring: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harry MellingAvailable on NetflixRated R, 125 minutes

The war in Afghanistan is already the longest military conflict in American history, but human memories are short, and its hard to comprehend 19 years of continuous war. Halfway through The Old Guard, an action thriller with a supernatural twist, whose two hours are otherwise full of gunfights and fistfights and swordfights and double-crosses and for-the-greater-good clichs, a young woman quietly puts the wars terrible longevity into focus. The young woman, Nile, explains that her father was killed in action when she was 11; she herself is now a U.S. Marine, fighting in the same war.

Charlize Theron and KiKiLayne star in The Old Guard. (Courtesy photo)

However, she wont be killed in action; as she has just discovered, shes immortal. The Old Guard is a literal title, referring to a band of immortal supersoldiers, some of whom are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. Led by Andy (Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road), the groups existence is a perfect secret, their deeds throughout history, from the Crusades to the Civil War, going without notice. This is by design; in previous eras, members of their ranks have been accused of witchcraft and tortured to insanity, so while their lonely way of life is hard, its better than the alternative.

The biggest threat facing the Old Guard these days comes in the form of Big Pharma, specifically a twitchy young CEO, Steven Merrick (Harry Melling, Harry Potter). Helped by a former CIA agent, Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Children of Men), Merrick sends paramilitary squads to ensnare the immortals, hoping to experiment on their bodies and maybe make a few cool billions by synthesizing their genetic material. Sensing the danger theyre in, Andy urges the group to lie low.

Then Nile (KiKi Layne, If Beale Street Could Talk) comes along. New to immortality and unable to comprehend her situation, Nile has questions, but the answers she needs are answers Andy cant give her. When she asks why this small group has been granted immortality, the others cant say with any certainty. When they plot revenge on Copley, Nile stops to ask why others have to die. The next youngest member of the group is over two hundred years old; with a fresh young face in their ranks, the Old Guard is forced, for the first time in centuries, to reckon with the unique advantage they have over mortals.

These moral and philosophical questions arent uninteresting, but what impact these questions have is flattened and diluted by the scripts constant stream of bland dialogue. Are you praying? God doesnt exist, Andy scoffs at Nile on the same day theyve met; This is about science, not profits, Copley pleads impotently when Merrick reveals his true intentions; We dont have all the answers, but we do have purpose, Andy philosophizes in a rambling monologue. The Old Guard is full of lines like these, lines meant to evoke simultaneously the gravitas of superhero movies and the conviction of a political speech. But with understated performances from nearly every member of the cast, these musings, offered in the movies quieter scenes, are unconvincing.

Luckily, quiet scenes are relatively rare; this is an action movie, after all, and a well-designed one at that. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) crafts blistering fight scenes that show off a wide variety of fighting styles, developing characters through wordless choreography. Action movies with high body counts often make us roll our eyes at the absurd scale of their carnage, but The Old Guard homes in on the act of killing, reminding us that death is deeply personal.

What makes The Old Guard linger, though, is the subtle parallel it draws between history and the zeitgeist of this fraught moment in time. Despite its dull dialogue, the movie still articulates an analogy between the eternal violence that haunts Andy and the violence Nile has known throughout her much shorter life. There are historical patterns, the waves that rise and fall over centuries, and then there are the patterns we observe within the smaller span of our lifetimes. Nile may have only ever known wartime, but she still balks when Andy warns her of everlasting cycles of violence. The Old Guard is a violent movie in the tradition of other violent movies, but it challenges us to imagine what it would take to break out of our old habits.

Danny Eisenberg grew up in Harvard and has been reviewing movies for the Harvard Press since 2010. He lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

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In the United States, 45% of businesses dont make it past five years. 65% dont make it past ten years. Yet everyone who ever starts a business backs themselves to beat the odds. Optimism can be blind and naivety can be bliss, but is it possible to predict if a business will become a roaring success or a damp squib of a failure?

7 signs your business will succeed

The trajectory is only partly defined by the idea, the rest is in the execution of the idea. The quality of the execution is shaped by the doers. The leader and the designers and the marketers. The rest is up to market forces and ability to adapt. Heres how to know if your business will succeed.

Start a business because theres a need for what you sell. Consider yourself a success only when you have paying customers. Being propped up by grants or investment but securing no customers is a giant band-aid just waiting to be ripped off. When pressed for an answer, do people say yes?

Projections and forecasts arent real, neither are polite nods of encouragement or speculative expressions of interest. Only fully settled revenue is a real indication of demand and therefore survival.

If customers are buying, are they coming back for more? Are they bringing their friends and telling the world? The value of word-of-mouth is that every new customer is worth five. It sends your marketing cost-per-acquisition way down and leads to that beautiful hockey stick line of growth.

Its easy to sell something to someone once. Repeat custom and referral are the real tests of quality and longevity. Products that are meh and experiences that dont delight wont be talked about. The space will be filled with small talk and whatevers in the news. Iterate and improve until youre remarkable.

What does the future hold? No one knows exactly, but you can take an educated guess. Exploring trends in technology, human behaviour, politics and population can uncover future scenarios for the way well live. How does your business stack up in each one?

When self-driving cars are mainstream, who will be in the running? When weve had enough of global warming, which companies will be left in the past? When were all living until were 150, who will represent the future?

But even short-term developments can render a promising business worthless. Relying on another platforms API or a legislation loophole is like building a house on a foundation of sand. Forging a company prepared for the long term can guarantee outlasting the competition and being an ultimate success.

When youre at capacity, what gives? Costs continue to rise, the same number of hours are in each day, but youre running about like a headless chicken charging exactly the same. Something has to break, and itll probably be you.

Businesses that succeed remove bottlenecks. They draft in help; they strengthen processes and they automate what they can. They innovate to drive down costs and they build a solid reputation to put upward pressure on prices. Bigger margins equal security and room to invest in further scale.

7 signs your business will succeed

Trophy cabinets filled with silverware represent achievement. A healthy bank balance and a happy team signal success. But imagine if, for every challenge we overcame, we received a similar token. A certificate to everyone who survived a recession, a medal to those who overcame an incident or grew past an obstacle.

Wed likely remember them much easier, recall what was learned, and never make the same mistake again. Learning from mistakes is just as much a success indicator as lengthy runs of victory. It builds resilience and knowledge and a solid foundation. Which lessons are etched in your memory and are you only making new mistakes?

Good news travels fast. If youre onto something good, people will copy you. No one wants to imitate failure, so it can only be a good sign. Let them try. Others being in your market will help to validate it. Having longevity in the field will serve you well.

Let the newbies think its easy and dont let them distract you off course. Obsessing over what theyre doing will direct your energy to the wrong place. Fascination with another company only makes them seem more prevalent. It keeps you both playing small, leads you down the wrong path and ignores the bigger picture. Imitators are good, imitation is not.

The biggest indication of a business succeeding is the people within it being committed to doing so. Being prepared for a bumpy ride and ready to enjoy it. Relishing the opportunity to implement new ideas and see them through to completion. If youre putting everything you have into something making it, how can it not? If youre going to make something a success no matter what it takes, it surely will.

You can sense conviction in someones demeanour. You can detect commitment from their stories. Wandering eyes and conflicting priorities dont equal longevity and profit, but fully committing leads to the stars aligning and everything, somehow, falling into place.

Whilst there are no dead certs, these seven indicators will get you pretty close to knowing. Whether or not your business succeeds is in your complete control.

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisRepublican COVID-19 outbreak rocks the 2020 race VP debate to install plexiglass between Pence and Harris Growing White House coronavirus infections highlight debate safety concerns MORE (D-Calif.) ison the cover for Elle magazines November issue, in which the senator participates in a broad interview spanning racial inequality, her upbringing and President TrumpDonald John TrumpState Department revokes visa of Giuliani-linked Ukrainian ally: report White House Gift Shop selling 'Trump Defeats COVID' commemorative coin Biden says he should not have called Trump a clown in first debate MORE.

In her interview with journalist Ashley Ford, Harris starts off by discussing her experience attending a civil rights march in Oakland, Calif., where she was born, as a child. At the time, Harris had been in a stroller with her parents, both activists who immigrated from Jamaica and India, and had fallen out at one point.

Eventually, Harris said her parents, who had continued marching afterward, noticed her absence and returned to get her.

My mother tells the story about how Im fussing, and shes like, Baby, what do you want? What do you need? And I just looked at her and I said, Fweedom, she said.

During her childhood, Harris, who also previously served as a former prosecutor and later as attorney general of California before becoming the second Black woman and first South Asian-American to become U.S. senator in 2017, said there was no question that you had to dedicate yourself to fighting for justice on some level or another.

That the measure of you is so much bigger than you; its the impact you have, its what you do in service to others, Harris, whose godmother, Mary Lewis, also helped establish San Francisco State University's Black studies department, continued. And thats how I was raised. I was raised that it is not about charity and benevolence, its about your duty. No ones going to congratulate you for itits what youre supposed to do.

Ford also pressed the senator on her meaning of justice in the interview, to which, Harris responded: "Its about freedom, its about equality, its about dignity. When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, its not because I grant it to you. Its because you fought for it because it is your right.

This is not about benevolence or charity; it is about every human beings God-given right. What do we collectively do to fight for that? Thats what justice represents to meits about empowerment of the people, said Harris, who is also the first Black woman and Indian American to run as vice president on a major party presidential ticket.

As protests against racism and police brutality continue in parts of the country fromspring, summer and into fall following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans, Harris vowed in the interviewtokeepsupportingthe brilliance of the Black Lives Matter movement.

What I hope and pray is that we can get to a point where, through what are undoubtedly difficult conversations, we confront the real history of America, Harris said. Doing it in a way that is motivated by love, but also is fully honest.

Harris credited optimism during the interview as the fuel driving every fight she has been in and said her motivation comes from believing in what can be unburdened by what has been.

John LewisJohn LewisHow to fight the onslaught of election disinformation The House's stake in filibuster reform Hillicon Valley: Productivity, fatigue, cybersecurity emerge as top concerns amid pandemic | Facebook critics launch alternative oversight board | Google to temporarily bar election ads after polls close MORE, the dearly departed, like many others shed blood on that bridge. Because he really believed in what could be. It will often feel like [we are only] against something, but the motivation that carries us through, with any longevity, is knowing what were fighting for, the senator told the magazine.

She also spoke briefly about Trump during the interview while discussing the night she was elected senator in California years back.

In every one of my elections, part of our routine is we do a small friends-and-family dinner before we go to the campaign night celebration, she told the magazine.

When it became clearer that night that Trump was going to win the election, Harris recalled a conversation she had with her godson.

My godson, Alexander, who was seven years old at the time, came up to me, crying, and said, Auntie Kamala, theyre not going to let that man win, are they? And you know the babies in your life I held him, she said.

I mean, it still brings me pain to remember how he felt, and what it made me feel, which is that I needed to protect this child. I had one way, in my mind, I thought the evening would go. And then there was the way it turned out. And so by the time I took the stage, I had ripped up my notes, and all I had was Alexander in my heart. And I took the podium and I said, I intend to fight. I intend to fight, she said.

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The word went around about Cian Healy, back in 2007, that there was a young lad in the Leinster set-up that had pretty much lifted ALL the weights. He was bulling about his peers, in training, and his coaches felt he would get more out of sessions with the senior squad.

Healy was 19 when he made his senior Leinster debut and he added 13 more appearances the following season, 2007/08, before nailing down the No.1 jersey in 2009 as he helped his province to their first ever European Cup. There was talk of him being a possible bolter for the Lions Tour to South Africa but he missed out on that fun and had to wait until Australia came to Croke Park, later that year, to make his Test debut.

"The whole occasion," recalls Healy of his debut, "just class to be playing in Croker. There were so many big names in our team which kind of shocked me a bit. I was young and cocky and confident in myself, and I got a bit of slagging for it. But some of that confidence goes a long way.

"I remember Paulie [O'Connell] tapped me down a ball from a kick-off and that was my one outstanding memory of that game, I got a bit of a run off it."

He got a bit of a run in the Test XV too as, over the next five years, he started 46 of his 48 Test appearances, excelled at the 2011 World Cup, made the 2013 Lions squad and won his first Six Nations title in 2014.

2015 was the year where that run was brought to a jarring halt. He had already dealt with bad hamstring and ankle injuries, in the previous years, but he went in for neck surgery not long after the 2015 Six Nations. The Clontarf prop was left without the use of his right arm due to nerve damage and, he once recalled, his retirement and insurance papers were all signed and ready to send off before that year's World Cup.

He began to get feeling and sensation back in his arm, though, and he held off on ending his career at the age of 27. Now, days away from what will be his 100th Test appearance for Ireland, Healy spoke about his journey back from the brink.

"Eventually, it was broken down into so many stages. The first stage of that was be a functional human again and open the door with the keys, and stuff like that.

"Each time I became capable of something Id work on another new standard that I could work on, something else more achievable. Id build through them and keep progressing though those goals to get into the international team again. And then get to the standard of the international team. Then it was a constant drive for fitness and getting my standards up because rugby keeps moving on."

Asked what was the secret to his longevity, Healy was quick to pay credit to the team of people around him at his province, and support from those close to him.

"I've relied on a lot and rehab coaches and physios to bring me back from the brink," Cian Healy says. "They do it day in and day out for other players, and everyone requires these people at some stage to drag them back from injuries or tough places. So a lot of it stems from that.

"And a bit of a drive, personally. Im not that type of person to settle down too easily and roll over, so a bit of that as well."

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Global Adrenomyeloneuropathy Treatment Market Research Report 2020

Chapter 1 Adrenomyeloneuropathy Treatment Market Overview

Chapter 2 Global Economic Impact on Industry

Chapter 3 Global Market Competition by Manufacturers

Chapter 4 Global Production, Revenue (Value) by Region

Chapter 5 Global Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by Regions

Chapter 6 Global Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type

Chapter 7 Global Market Analysis by Application

Chapter 8 Manufacturing Cost Analysis

Chapter 9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers

Chapter 10 Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders

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When it comes to healthy eating, one size does not fit all. Japanese cooking, with its emphasis on rice, fish, and vegetables, may not be the best diet for everyone, but it is marvelously suited to the physiology of the Japanese, writes physician and writer Okuda Masako.

The popularity of Japanese cuisine has soared in recent decades, and one reason is undoubtedly its healthful image. The average lifespan of the Japanese people climbed rapidly after World War II. By around 1980, Japan had the highest life expectancy of any country in the world, and it still ranks near the top. (The worlds oldest living person is also a Japanese woman.) Amid a slew of investigations into the secrets of Japanese longevity, attention quickly centered on the benefits of washoku, traditional Japanese cooking.

My research and experience have taught me that the optimal diet depends on a variety of hereditary and environmental factors. But there is no denying that washoku has contributed to the health and longevity of the Japanese people. Let us begin by examining how.

In terms of health and long life, the biggest physiological factor the Japanese have going for them is a low risk of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis occurs when fats and other substances build up along the walls of arteries, restricting or even blocking blood flow. In the brain, such a blockage is known as a cerebral infarction (stroke); in the heart, it is called a myocardial infarction (heart attack). The incidence of myocardial infarction in Japan is among the lowest in the world.

Scientists believe that both genetics and diet play a role in protecting Japanese arteries. One factor is a high level of good cholesterol, or HDL (high-density lipoproteins), in the blood. In a 2008 study, Japanese HDL levels were found to be roughly 10% higher than those of white Americans on average. Another reason is that fish is a big part of the traditional Japanese diet, and fish contains EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), two polyunsaturated fatty acids that help prevent hardening of the arteries. Since ancient times, the Japanese have been eating oily fish like mackerel, sardines, yellowtail tuna, and eel, which are abundant off the coast of Japan and are rich in EPA and DHA. In a 2015 study, the average concentration of DHA in Japanese maternal milk was determined to be up to six times that found in Western countries and about twice that found in China.

A second major contributor to Japanese health is the gut microbiota, the many and varied microorganisms living in the intestinal tract. A 2016 analysis of the intestinal microbiota of subjects from 12 countries found that the Japanese had the highest counts of beneficial bifidobacteria. (Interestingly, the gut microbiome of the Chinese subjects was closer to that of the Western subjects studied.) This can probably be attributed to the high fiber content of the traditional Japanese diet, with its emphasis on grains and vegetables. Dietary fiber provides a good nutritional environment for beneficial microbes and helps cleanse the gut of the harmful substances that unhealthy bacteria produce. Since it takes a generation or more to permanently alter the gut microbiota, todays Japanese probably owe their intestinal health to the dietary habits of their parents and grandparents.

All of this might lead one to the conclusion that eating washoku will automatically make one healthier. Unfortunately, it is not quite so simple. In general, the traditional diets that developed in various parts of the world were optimally adapted to the local environment and the needs of the native population. The physiology of the native population, in return, adapted to the diet.

There are obvious physical differences between Japanese people and Westerners. But the differences go beyond hair texture and eye color. There are also disparities in musculature, body fat, and body temperature, as well as various factors that affect digestion and metabolism of alcohol: hormone and enzyme secretion, the shape of the stomach, the composition of the gut flora, and so forth. Race is not just skin-deep.

The Japanese stomach is adapted to consumption of grain.

Figure 1 illustrates the stomach shapes typically found in Japanese people on the one hand and people of Westerners extraction on the other. The differences are the result of disparities in the traditional diet.

The Japanese have long relied on rice and other grains as their dietary staple. Grains are a good source of energy, but whole grains in particular take time to digest because of their high fiber content. The Japanese stomach is vertically elongated so as to store, mix, and break down such food before it continues on into the intestines. The intestines, in turn, are rich in the kinds of bacteria that help digest and extract nutrition from starchy foods.

By contrast, the traditional European diet, with its emphasis on meat and dairy products, is considerably higher in protein and fat. Since protein and fat are digested primarily in the intestines, the food needs to move more rapidly from the stomach to the gut. The digestive system evolved to deal with these demands. For example, a large quantity of stomach acid is produced so that the stomach can process the food quickly; comparatively thicker stomach muscles then push it smoothly into the intestines.Plenty of enzymes and other fluids are secreted to aid the digestion of fat and protein inside the intestines.

It has long been known that the ability of adults to digest milk varies by ethnicity and region. The bodys capacity to digest the lactose in milk hinges on continued production of the enzyme lactase. The map in figure 2 shows the global distribution of lactose-intolerant adults in various parts of the world, with higher concentrations indicated by darker shades. While most people in the British Isles and Scandinavia digest milk easily, close to 90% of adults in Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Japan) have trouble with it.

Darker shades indicate regions with higher rates of adult lactose intolerance.

Such differences in physiology can translate into serious health problems when people adopt different diets and lifestyles. One example involves vitamin D, which is essential to bone health, among other things. Vitamin D is produced inside the body when the skin is exposed to the suns ultraviolet rays, but it can also be obtained from dietary sources like oily fish. It has been suggested that Africans, who evolved in a part of the world where year-round UV exposure is high, may be less well equipped to absorb vitamin D from dietary sources, and this may be why African Americans tend to have relatively low vitamin-D levels. Some experts have warned that African Americans need to adjust their diets to avoid health problems resulting from vitamin D insufficiency. The optimum diet for any person depends on genetic makeup, as well as lifestyle and environment.

Genetics also influences the way our bodies accumulate fat. One characteristic of the Japanese constitution is the tendency to accumulate visceral adipose tissue, or fat inside the abdominal cavity, as opposed to the subcutaneous fat that collects under the skin. Unfortunately, visceral fat is the more worrisome kind.

Cross-sections showing the distribution of abdominal fat in representative Japanese (left) and Westerners (right) subjects.

This is a fairly recent phenomenon, mind you. In earlier times, obesity was relatively rare in Japan, and the incidence of chronic diseases associated with visceral fatincluding type 2 diabetes, along with other diseases like breast cancer and colon cancerwas correspondingly low. That began to change in the 1960s to 1980s, as the Japanese diet became increasingly westernized, leading to higher fat consumption and lower intake of fiber. And with more people doing deskwork and leading sedentary lifestyles, lack of exercise contributed to the rise of obesity and the accumulation of visceral fat. The result has been a significant increase in disease, raising concerns for the future.

Extensive studies have revealed that a traditional Japanese dietlow in meat and dairy products, high in soybeans and fish, and high in fiber from grains, vegetables, and seaweedis tied to very low accumulation of visceral fat. In other words, washoku is ideally suited to the physiological traits of the Japanese people, protecting them from their innate tendency to accumulate visceral fat. Without knowing the science, our forebears managed to develop, preserve, and pass down a dietary culture perfectly adapted to our own metabolism.

Washoku has other health benefits as well. Soybeans, green and yellow vegetables, and small fish eaten whole all help to build strong bones. Lifelong consumption of soy foods also contributes to the relativelylow incidence in Japan of diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer, all ailments linked closely to visceral fat levels, as compared with the West

One notable weakness of the Japanese diet as it has developed in the past two or three centuries is the overwhelming preference for polished rice. For the health-conscious, I would recommend brown rice, which has seven times the dietary fiber of white rice and contains substances that help the body burn visceral fat.

In recent years, science has made considerable progress in identifying genetic differences among ethnic groups. In 2016, a Japanese team of researchers released the first Japanese reference genome panel (JRG v1), a whole-genome assembly representing the genes of a typical healthy Japanese. Comparison with the human reference genome has revealed millions of single-nucleotide differences, many of which doubtless reflect significant differences in nutrition physiology. We need to abandon the one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition and consider what diet works best for each ethnic group.

Nowadays, the Japanese people are able to enjoy delicious cooking from every part of the world. That is a splendid thing, as long as we keep in mind that washoku is the bedrock of our much-admired health and longevity.

(Originally written in Japanese. Banner photo: Dairy and meat products figure heavily in the Western diet, while the traditional Japanese diet has much to offer in the area of human health. Pixta.)

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CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Carlsbad, Californiabased NEUROHACKER COLLECTIVE achieves # 412 on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of "Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America." This recognition comes as the supplement company reports three-year revenue growth of 1119.9% percent.

Neurohacker Collective was founded in 2015 with the mission of advancing human quality of life by creating best in class well-being products using a unique research and development methodology premised on complex systems science. This innovative scientific approach focuses on supporting the body's ability to self-regulate. The company began with a focus on optimizing human cognition with its Qualia Mind nootropic products. They've since launched a rapidly expanding and successful product lineup across categories in the trillion-dollar wellness marketplace, supporting health needs such as longevity, energy, and sleep.

The Inc. 5000 ranks the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segmentits independent small businesses. Companies such as Microsoft, Intuit, Patagonia, Zappos and many other Fortune 1000 giants gained early national exposure by achieving inclusion in the annual Inc. rankings. The 2020 rankings show Neurohacker Collective among the top-5 fastest-growing companies in America specializing in supplemental nutrition products.

Not only have the 2020 Inc. 5000 companies performed well within their markets, but the list as a whole shows staggering growth. Those included have achieved a blistering three-year average growth rate of over 500 percent, and a median rate of 165 percent. The Inc. 5000's aggregate revenue was $209 billion in 2019, accounting for over 1 million jobs in the past three years.

2020's Inc. 5000 features company profiles and an interactive database that sorts ranked companies by industry, region, and other criteria. It can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000. Neurohacker Collective will be featured in the September issue of Inc., available on newsstands August 12th, along with the other members of 2020's Inc. 5000.

"Ranking 412 in the 2020 Inc. 5000 list is a great achievement for all our team's hard work. We are truly thankful for our community and investors who are as passionate as we are about our Qualia products." -James Schmachtenberger, CEO

In the near future, Neurohacker Collective will develop solutions for mood, pain, skin health, immune function, fitness performance, hormone balancing, and cardiovascular health.

About NeurohackerNeurohacker Collective was founded in 2015 with the mission to advance human quality life by creating best in class well-being products. Neurohacker Collective's products are radically different because they employ a unique methodology to research and development based on complex systems science. This scientific approach focuses on supporting the body's ability to self-regulate. The company began focusing on cognitive products with the launch of Qualia Mind and has released products to support longevity, energy, and sleep in the last year. Learn more about their scientific approach here.

About Inc. MediaThe world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc.

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Mice given alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG) supplements were reported to be healthier as they aged, and female mice lived longer than those not given the supplement, according to the researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

The big thing about this is that its safety profile is so good, says the University of North Dakota aging researcher Holly Brown-Borg, who was not involved with the study. It has potential and should be explored further, for sure.

AKG is naturally made in both mice and human bodies, and it is already considered to be safe by regulators. It is part of the metabolic cycle that cells use to make energy from food; sometimes it is used to treat osteoporosis and kidney disease, along with some bodybuilders to bulk up.

In 2014 researchers discovered that this molecule may have an anti-ageing possibility when a study published in Nature reported that it helped to extend the lifespan of C. elegans by more than 50%; and other studies showed it improving lifespan in fruit flies.

AKG levels will gradually decline with age, as such the researchers are looking for ways to restore levels to those seen in younger years. In this study published in Cell Metabolism 18-month-old mice, which is the equivalent of around 55 human years, were given AKG as 2% of their daily feed until they died or for up to 21 months, recording all changes.

Within a few months: They looked much blacker, shinier, and younger than control mice, says Azar Asadi Shahmirzadi, a postdoc at the Buck Institute who did the experiments as a graduate student. Animals in the AKG group also scored on average 40% better on tests of frailty as measured by 31 physiological attributes including walking gait, grip strength hearing, and hair colour. Additionally, female mice in the AKG group lived a median of 8-20% longer than the controls. It was noted that the mice in the AKG group did not perform better in tests for heart function or treadmill endurance, and they did not test for cognitive improvement.

Female mice in the AKG group were found to produce higher levels of a molecule that fights inflammation. Although these effects on health and longevity were smaller for AKG than for some other anti-ageing compounds, some of the other compounds have had safety issues, for example, rapamycin can suppress the immune system and may promote diabetes.

The researchers plan to test AKG in human volunteers in the near future, possibly in a group of people between the ages of 45-65 to investigate whether the molecule will improve ageing-related biomarkers such as inflammation, arterial hardening, and chemical signatures on DNA that are associated with ageing.

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Even without a second wave of infections, Covid-19 has done brutal damage to businesses such as restaurants, pubs, travel and tourism firms and those in the arts, entertainment and culture sectorsthe businesses that exist because we are (or were) social beings.

Share prices across these sectors are down by up to 60 per cent since early March. By high summer, 48 per cent of arts, entertainment and recreation businesses and 22 per cent of accommodation and food service companies were closed with no concrete plans to reopen, according to the ONS. As government life-support is switched off, weaker players will disappear.

Millions of jobs, as well as all hopes of returning to a normal social life, now depend on reviving businesses that live or die on human interaction. Tackling this challenge will be especially hard because Covid-19 is most dangerous for those we increasingly rely on to sustain these sectors: older consumers.

The International Longevity Centre published a report last year, Maximising the Longevity Dividend, highlighting huge projected growth in the spending power of consumers aged 50-plus over coming decades. This will happen, the ILC said, because the number of older people is rising, but also because their wealth is increasing. People aged 50-plus accounted for 30 per cent of total earnings in 2018, the ILC reported, which would rise to 40 per cent by 2040. Older people would account for 63 per cent of consumer spending by then. Most importantly, the ILC said: People aged 50 and over are shifting their spending towards non-essential purchases such as leisure. The top three growing sectors for older consumers are recreation and culture; transport; and household goods and services.

There are signs Covid-19 has reversed that trend. According to YouGov polling carried out as pubs were reopening, around 55 per cent of people aged 50-plus would not venture back until later this year at the earliest, and around 10 per cent said they never would. If they are as good as their word, the hit to leisure spending will be large, even allowing for areas that prosperbicycle sales, perhaps, and other outdoor pursuits.

And if the cash-strapped government ends the triple lock on annual state pension increases of at least 2.5 per cent, the impact on our struggling leisure sector could be greater still.

For investors, the message is clear. Keep an eye on how behaviour among older consumers is evolving: it will shape returns. And all of us should remember that quite apart from any moral obligation, keeping older people safe is hugely in our collective economic interests.

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With COVID-19 coronavirus concerns leading officials to enforce new social distancing and conduct rules, Shippensburg Universitys Greek life chapters must find a new way to stay alive.

Greek life members had a tough time dealing with the pandemic as the campus closed during the middle of spring recruitment last semester.

With human interaction being cut down, chapters have found ways to keep in contact and keep up with chapters needs. Alpha Sigma Tau member Brooke Hopkins said.

Hopkins said Zoom has provided a way for the sisters to remain connected.

The Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council (IFC) came to the decision to have both Zoom and in-person meetings for fall recruitment in order to safely gain new membership.

Fall recruitment is considered informal, meaning an undergraduate student may choose which sorority or fraternity event they want to attend. For many Greek life members, fall recruitment is considered more relaxed than the formal spring recruitment process.

A major part of the recruitment process is connecting and bonding with the new recruits. Many Greek chapters fear that they will not be able to properly connect with potential new members due to online meetings and social distancing. Like other student groups, Greek life chapters must limit the number of members present during in-person meetings.

Since we have a much more limited time scale with the new members, we have all been focusing on how to have the best possible conversations and how to really get to know the potential new members before giving outbids, Panhellenic Council Recruitment Chair Emily Drennan said.

The Panhellenic Council started its recruitment last Thursday by advertising on social media and providing a sign-up link in each chapters Instagram bio. The sign-up survey will show the number of potential members who prefer online sessions or in-person meetings and events. The responses will help chapter officials to plan recruitment events for the fall.

SU Greek life officials suspended all social functions other than recruitment until further notice to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to ensure that sororities and fraternities can continue to remain active and enroll new members.

We understand that this decision will not come easy to many, but we are asking you all to put the longevity and health of our chapters above the social culture that we have become accustomed to, IFC officials said in a statement.

All recruitment events must be held on campus this semester with all Greek chapters and potential new members wearing a mask and also must abide by the social distancing protocols.

With coronavirus concerns, sororities and fraternities are anxious on the number of new recruits they might gain. Drennan said she hopes each sorority will have a healthy sized new member class, but it is too early to tell.

The total that was set for this semester was 38,so many chapters have the potential to get about 10 new members. However, we will have to wait and see if that is possible this semester with everything going on, Drennan said.

Despite recruitment concerns, Greek Life will not allow fall informal freshman recruitment this semester. The Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council will not break the rules nor SUs policy of including students without a GPA.

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The Hulk is one of the most popular superheroes in the world, and hes been around for a long time.

As a result of this longevity, the Marvel Cinematic Universes Hulk has gone through many transformations throughout his years on screen. For example, Bruce Banner used to be played by Edward Norton, and now hes played by Mark Ruffalo. The Hulks changes have been more than skin deep, too, as Banner has been slowly learning about how to control the Hulk.

That said, in the comics, the Hulk changes even more, and some Marvel fans are convinced that in the movies, hell become similar to his comic book counterpart.

The Hulk has always been a classic case of Jekyll and Hyde, where Banner is just a regular guy but hell turn into the Hulk whenever hes angry. In the beginning of Banners story, hes just trying to figure out why this is happening to him.

However, by the time that he shows up in the first Avengers movie, Banner revealed to the team that he can transform into the Hulk whenever he wants, since hes always angry.

Banner continues to gain more control of the Hulk as the Marvel movies progress. InAge of Ultron, Scarlett Johanssons Black Widow says a lullaby that calms him down and allows him to transform back into his human form.

In the most recent Marvel movies, Banner has complete control of the Hulk, and hes able to be a regular person while in his Hulk form.

As a result, some Marvel fans on Reddit think that the Hulk has done transforming in the movies. By becoming Professor Hulk, as hes called, Banner has been able to completely control that side of him.

This would seem to be the natural end to the Hulks story, since controlling the Hulk was always the thing that Banner has strived for.

Like one fan said, Professor Hulk is the endpoint of Ruffalo. Other fans agreed, and one fan said, I think theyll drop the character for awhile.

Some fans speculate that Marvel is introducing She-Hulk on her Disney+ show as a way of passing the torch between the Hulk and She-Hulk.

That said, some fans disagree with this idea.Endgame was the endgame for many Marvel characters. Iron Man and Black Widow both died inEndgame, and Captain America retired and passed his shield off to the Falcon. Fans think that if Marvel was done with the Hulk, Marvel wouldve ended his story atEndgametoo, but Marvel didnt.

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In the comics, the Hulk is able to absorb radiation to become stronger. This has led to some interesting stories, and they could potentially be where the Marvel movies will take the character.

For example, many fans on Reddit think that the Hulk will eventually transform into Worldbreaker Hulk. Worldbreaker Hulk is one of the most powerful characters in Marvel history, and, like his name implies, hes so strong that he can destroy entire planets.

The Marvel movies has somewhat hinted at adapting this storyline, but Marvel came short of actually adapting Worldbreaker Hulk.

And then theres Maestro, which is another possible direction that Marvel can take the Hulk. In the comics, the Hulk absorbs so much radiation that he becomes Maestro. Hes still as strong and as tough as the Hulk is, but Maestro gained new powers after his transformation, and they include a few psychic abilities.

These were the two most popular theories, but there are more options. Either way, many Marvel fans are still hopeful that Ruffalos Hulk will show up again in the MCU.

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