Category Archives: Human Longevity

Omid Farokhzad on transforming drug delivery through nano-medicine
Omid Farokhzad, Associate Professor, Brigham and Women #39;s Hospital, Harvard Medical School In an interview with Omid Farokhzad he provides answers to the following questions: What are the key messages of your workshop? How do you see the future of nanomedicine develop and how might this impact the future of longevity? What did you learn at the conference and how did it inspire you? Farokhzad spoke at the Swiss Re conference The future of human longevity: focusing on you cgd.swissre.com A recording of his keynote is available at cgd.swissre.comFrom:swissretvViews:2 1ratingsTime:03:41More inScience Technology

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Elias Mossialos on health policy and innovating for longevity
Elias Mossialos, Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics In an interview with Elias Mossialos he provides answers to the following questions: What are the key messages of your presentation? How do you see the future of health systems and policy, and how might this impact the future of longevity? What did you learn at the conference and how did it inspire you? Elias Mossialos spoke at the Swiss Re conference The future of human longevity: focusing on you cgd.swissre.com A recording of his keynote is available at cgd.swissre.comFrom:swissretvViews:4 1ratingsTime:03:09More inScience Technology

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James Heywood on what is health and how we can learn what it means
James Heywood, Co-Founder and Chairman, PatientsLikeMe In an interview with James Heywood he provides answers to the following questions: What are the key messages of your presentation? How do you see the future of online self-reported patient data collection and how might this impact the future of longevity? What did you learn at the conference and how did it inspire you? James Heywood spoke at the Swiss Re conference The future of human longevity: focusing on you cgd.swissre.com A recording of his keynote is available at cgd.swissre.comFrom:swissretvViews:3 1ratingsTime:03:01More inScience Technology

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Nick Wood on translating genetics into neurological disease and management
Nick Wood, Professor in Clinical Neurology and Neurogenetics, University of London, Director Institute of Human Genetics and Health In an interview with Nick Wood he provides answers to the following questions: What are the key messages of your presentation? How do you see the future of treatment of neurological diseases develop and how might this impact the future of longevity? What did you learn at the conference and how did it inspire you? Nick Wood spoke at the Swiss Re conference The future of human longevity: focusing on you cgd.swissre.com A recording of his keynote is available at cgd.swissre.comFrom:swissretvViews:2 1ratingsTime:01:39More inScience Technology

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Experts on key drivers of human longevity
The following experts provide their views on what they think are the key drivers for future human longevity: - Helen Chung, Head of Health Policy Research, Life Health R D, Swiss Re - James Heywood, Co-Founder and Chairman, PatientsLikeMe - Elias Mossialos, Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics - Nick Wood, Professor in Clinical Neurology and Neurogenetics, University of London, Director Institute of Human Genetics and Health - Omid Farokhzad, Associate Professor, Brigham and Women #39;s Hospital, Harvard Medical School - Daniel Ryan, Head Life Health R D, Swiss Re The experts spoke at the Swiss Re conference The future of human longevity: focusing on you cgd.swissre.comFrom:swissretvViews:12 1ratingsTime:03:48More inScience Technology

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Bern Shen on how technology reduces some risk and increases others
Bern Shen, Chief Medical Officer, HealthCrowd In an interview with Bern Shen he provides answers to the following questions: What are the key messages of your workshop? How do you see the future of health-related technologies develop and how might they impact the future of longevity? What did you learn at the conference and how did it inspire you? Bern Shen spoke at the Swiss Re conference The future of human longevity: focusing on you cgd.swissre.com A recording of his keynote is available at cgd.swissre.comFrom:swissretvViews:1 1ratingsTime:01:43More inScience Technology

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Single Premium Life Insurance with Living Benefits
brokersalliance.com Steve and Michael go through a redox of single premium life in the late 80s and brings the conversation into the twenty first century with living benefits and simplified issue. Living Benefits -- Morbidity riders embedded on a mortality chassis appears to be in contradiction in actuarial insurance construction, but this hybrid product can have several options such as catastrophic, terminal illness, critical illness and long term care. Simplified Issue -- Full and traditional underwriting in the senior market can disqualify a large segment of the senior population, but with the inclusion of simplified issue with morbidly products, the market has been expanded with a few knock health items. The Senior Market -- The baby boomers will soon be the largest segment of the senior market. The life expectancy for the boomer generation will more than likely continue to extend human longevity and lifestyle viability. But with those new frontiers comes more exposure to morbidity events. Steve Savant is a national insurance columnist, financial color commentator and host of the daily Internet talk show, The Business Insurance Zone. Insurance columnist and financial color commentator Steve Savant interviews special guest Michael Simpson, Senior Market AdvisorFrom:BrokersAllianceViews:2 0ratingsTime:15:03More inEducation

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Human Longevity
How people were actually able to break lifespan records with low stress, exercise, and a healthy diet.From:Hunter WhiteViews:2 0ratingsTime:03:38More inPeople Blogs

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2012) Why do we get older? When do we die and why? Is there a life without aging? For centuries, science has been fascinated by these questions. Now researchers from Kiel (Germany) have examined why the polyp Hydra is immortal -- and unexpectedly discovered a link to aging in humans.

The study carried out by Kiel University together with the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Hydra -- mysteriously immortal

The tiny freshwater polyp Hydra does not show any signs of aging and is potentially immortal. There is a rather simple biological explanation for this: these animals exclusively reproduce by budding rather than by mating. A prerequisite for such vegetative-only reproduction is that each polyp contains stem cells capable of continuous proliferation. Without these stem cells, the animals could not reproduce any more. Due to its immortality, Hydra has been the subject of many studies regarding aging processes for several years.

Aging in humans

When people get older, more and more of their stem cells lose the ability to proliferate and thus to form new cells. aging tissue cannot regenerate any more, which is why for example muscles decline. Elderly people tend to feel weaker because their heart muscles are affected by this aging process as well. If it were possible to influence these aging processes, humans could feel physically better for much longer. Studying animal tissue such as those of Hydra -- an animal full of active stem cells during all its life -- may deliver valuable insight into stem cell aging as such.

Human longevity gene discovered in Hydra

"Surprisingly, our search for the gene that causes Hydra to be immortal led us to the so-called FoxO gene," says Anna-Marei Bhm, PhD student and first author of the study. The FoxO gene exists in all animals and humans and has been known for years. However, until now it was not known why human stem cells become fewer and inactive with increasing age, which biochemical mechanisms are involved and if FoxO played a role in aging. In order to find the gene, the research group isolated Hydra's stem cells and then screened all of their genes.

Immortality mechanism of Hydra revealed

The Kiel research team examined FoxO in several genetically modified polyps: Hydra with normal FoxO, with inactive FoxO and with enhanced FoxO. The scientists were able to show that animals without FoxO possess significantly fewer stem cells. Interestingly, the immune system in animals with inactive FoxO also changes drastically. "Drastic changes of the immune system similar to those observed in Hydra are also known from elderly humans," explains Philip Rosenstiel of the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology at UKSH, whose research group contributed to the study.

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Religion and Indefinite Life Extension
Mr. Stolyarov discusses the future of religious worldviews in a society where human longevity increases indefinitely and death is no longer perceived as inevitable. Mr. Stolyarov argues that religions evolve, too, and - to survive - they will need to adapt to the reality of far longer human lifespans.From:GStolyarovIIViews:378 24ratingsTime:17:47More inEducation

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