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Evolve BioSystems Announces Major Strategic Investment from Cargill and Manna Tree to Support Innovative Probiotic That Dramatically Improves Infant…
Posted: February 8, 2021 at 11:33 am
DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Evolve BioSystems announced today that it completed a substantial first close in a $55 million Series D round of funding, led by Cargill, the global food, agricultural, financial and industrial products company and Manna Tree, an investment firm committed to improving human health. The new capital will be used to help the companycontinue commercializing a next generation of probiotic capable of addressing a widespread deficiency in the infant gut microbiome.
"We are thrilled to announce our newest investors as we continue our quest to address this health crisis in newborns," said Timothy Brown, CEO of Evolve BioSystems. "Our research found that more than 90 percent of infants in the U.S. are missing the critical bacteria, Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis (B. infantis), which is widely documented as a key component of the infant gut microbiome. The financial support announced today, which includes strong continued support from our earlier investors, will help continue our mission to make a healthier future for our children during infancy and beyond."
Evolve BioSystems manufactures Evivo, a proprietary groundbreaking probiotic proven to resolve infant gut dysbiosis, or Newborn Gut Deficiency. Evivo is comprised of activated B. infantis EVC001, which studies have shown guides critical development of infants' digestive and immune systems. Evivo restores this missing bacterium to the infant gut microbiome, reducing potentially pathogenic bacteria by 80 percent as well as significantly reducing intestinal inflammation. These pathogens are linked to higher risk of both short- and long-term health issues including colic, diaper rash, eczema, asthma, allergies and Type 1 Diabetes.
"Evivo, Evolve BioSystem's innovative infant probiotic, has been proven to have a dramatic impact on the developing infant gut, and to guide long-term health trajectory. This round of financing will continue to raise consumer and health care practitioner awareness, while supporting continued research and development. We are proud to partner with innovators like Tim and the entire Evolve team who are at the forefront of food and biotechnology" said Gabrielle "Ellie" Rubenstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Manna Tree. "This important investment is at the very core of our mission at Manna Tree - investing in human health."
The health benefits of Evivo are documented through numerous clinical studies and peer-reviewed publications. The investments of Manna Tree and Cargill come on the heels of the most recent breakthrough in the Evolve research, the U.S. Microbiome Survey, recently published in Scientific Reports. The research shows that nine out of ten U.S. infants are suffering from Newborn Gut Deficiency, increasing risk to early infant health and development. The study is the largest to date to benchmark the widespread levels of potential pathogenic bacteria in U.S. infants and the substantial deficiency B. infantis.
"Evolve BioSystem's Evivo has the potential to be a highly distinctive probiotic for infants and we are delighted to work with them to scale its impact," said Chuck Warta, president of Cargill's health technologies business. "Our goal is to help humans live more healthy days right from the start. Together, we can harness our respective expertise and knowledge in nutrition, digestive and immune health to bring next generation ingredient solutions to our customers."
Through its collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Evolve BioSystems is currently involved in a clinical trial at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh to assess the impact of Evivo on infants who have been diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition.
As part of the investment, Cargill and Manna Tree will serve as lead investors and join the company's board of directors. Other Evolve BioSystems investors in this round include Horizons Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Innovation JJDC, Inc., Spruce Capital Partners, Acre Venture Partners and Bow Capital. Evolve was spun-off from the Foods for Health Institute (FFHI) at the University of California, Davis in 2014.
For more information on Evolve BioSystems and Evivo, visit http://www.evolvebiosystems.com or http://www.evivo.com. To learn more about the Evolve BioSystems investors, visit Manna Tree at http://www.mannatreepartners.comandwww.Cargill.com.
About Evolve BioSystems, Inc
Evolve BioSystems, Inc. is a privately held microbiome company dedicated to researching solutions to establish, restore, and maintain a healthy gut microbiome. Evolve is a portfolio company of Cargill, Manna Tree, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Horizons Ventures, the venture division of the Li Ka Shing Foundation. Evolve is a spin-off from the Foods for Health Institute (FFHI) at the University of California, Davis and builds on more than a decade of research into understanding the unique partnership of the infant gut microbiome and breast milk components.
About Cargill
Cargill's 155,000 employees across 70 countries work relentlessly to achieve our purpose of nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
We combine 155 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. Side-by-side, we are building a stronger, sustainable future for agriculture. For more information, visitCargill.comand ourNews Center.
About Manna Tree
Manna Tree is a Vail, Colorado-based investment firm committed to improving human health through nutrition. The firm invests in and actively partners with growth-stage companies. We believe the future of health, well-being and longevity is attainable through innovation in food. Manna Tree has $235 million in assets under management, as of September 2020, and has made five investments to date: Vital Farms, Verde Farms, MycoTechnology, Nutriati, and Gotham Greens. http://www.mannatreepartners.com.
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Parasite infections may prevent aging and disease – Medical News Today
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Through centuries of evolution, the human body and its surrounding environments have adapted to improve health and promote longevity. For example, the increasing emphasis on hygiene has been effective in combating parasites that cause disease.
These changes have been crucial, as evidenced by the greater life expectancies and lower disease rates in certain regions of the world. However, these benefits come with trade-offs.
Parasites and humans share a long history of coexistence. It is likely that the human immune function developed in relation to parasitic mechanisms.
The old friends hypothesis states that these parasites were like old friends of the human body that helped improve tolerance and function and that their decline led to a higher prevalence of allergic responses and autoimmune conditions.
This decline may also promote inflammaging, which is a chronic form of inflammation that worsens with progressing age. Inflammaging contributes to several age-related conditions, such as dementia, cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease.
One recent study shows that inflammaging may exacerbate symptoms of COVID-19, as well.
Bruce Zhang and Dr. David Gems, from the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London in the United Kingdom, conducted a review of the existing literature to explore the use of parasite worms as a therapy to reverse conditions linked to inflammaging. This review article appears in the journal eLife.
The authors focused their research on a specific group of parasitic worms called helminths, which include roundworms, tapeworms, and flukes. These parasites live inside host organisms, such as human bodies, and take advantage of their immune responses in order to survive.
These findings also provide a glimpse into the intricacies of the human bodys immune functions.
Scientists associate the decline of helminths with multiple inflammatory conditions that occur earlier in life. These include asthma, eczema, multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and type 1 diabetes.
Current evidence supports the idea that both natural and deliberate infection with helminths can combat these inflammatory conditions.
Indeed, in 1976, researcher J. A. Turton published a report in which he explained that his hookworm infection reduced the severity of his allergies.
A more recent study which Marc Charabati, of the University of Montreal in Canada, led showed that infecting mice with helminths eased their MS symptoms.
Although these findings suggest that restorative helminth therapy may address pre-aging inflammatory conditions, the question of whether or not it can prevent conditions that occur in older age remains.
A key characteristic of inflammaging is a consistent increase in pro-inflammatory proteins in the blood. Multiple experiments have shown that helminth infection can suppress levels of these pro-inflammatory proteins.
In contrast, administering anthelmintic treatments which can kill helminths increased the inflammatory response of these proteins.
Although the direct administration of helminths can be beneficial, it can also cause undesired infections. A viable alternative is to utilize the molecular components of helminth mechanisms.
One experiment, which Jenny Crowe and others at the University of Glasgow in the U.K. conducted, incorporated this concept in a mouse model that ate a high calorie diet. Specifically, the team administered a protein called ES-62, which is an anti-inflammatory molecule derived from roundworm secretion.
They found that ES-62 prevented both the degradation of the gut barrier and the enlargement of fat tissue, which are mechanisms that contribute to inflammaging.
The mice also showed a 12% increase in their median lifespan. This suggests that ES-62 was able to suppress inflammaging and limit health-related age acceleration.
Similar studies have indicated the effectiveness of helminths and helminth-secreted products in protecting against rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes.
There is also some evidence that points to helminth therapy in cancer resistance. A few studies in mice have shown that tapeworms prevented the formation of colon tumors.
However, it is important to note that certain helminths can cause cancer, as well. For example, the trematode parasite Schistosoma haematobium can cause bladder cancer.
Although these studies do not confirm that helminths can directly reduce inflammaging, they do show the ability of helminths to protect against the processes that ultimately lead to it.
Zhang and Dr. Gems raise important questions regarding helminth therapy research. These include: What are optimal ages to apply such therapy to reduce inflammaging? Would helminth therapy act only in a preventive fashion (typical of anti-aging treatments), or could it reverse existing disease symptoms?
They also state the necessity of understanding the pathways that shape anti-inflammaging properties.
As Dr. Gems says, In the wake of successes during the last century in eliminating the evils of helminth infections, the time now seems propitious to explore further their possible benefits, particularly for our aging population strange though this may sound.
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Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Report 2020 by Key Players, Types, Applications, Countries, Market Size, Forecast to 2026 (Based…
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Overview for Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Helps in providing scope and definitions, Key Findings, Growth Drivers, and Various Dynamics.
Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Data and Acquisition Research Study with Trends and Opportunities 2019-2024The study of Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy market is a compilation of the market of Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy 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 Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy 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 Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy 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 Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy market covered in Chapter 4:Acorda TherapeuticsUnity BiotechnologyAntoxereneCelgeneCohbarSenex BiotechnologyHuman Longevity Inc.T.A. SciencesAgex TherapeuticsRecursion PharmaceuticalsCalico Life SciencesSpotlight BiosciencePowervision Inc.Sierra Sciences LlcRestorbioInsilico MedicineOisin BiotechnologySenolytic TherapeuticsProteostasis Therapeutics Inc.Prana Biotechnology Ltd.Cleara Biotech
In Chapter 11 and 13.3, on the basis of types, the Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy market from 2015 to 2026 is primarily split into:Senolytic Drug TherapyGene TherapyImmunotherapyOthers
In Chapter 12 and 13.4, on the basis of applications, the Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy market from 2015 to 2026 covers:LongevitySenescence InhibitionCardiovascular DiseasesNeural Degenerative DiseasesOphthalmology DisordersCancer
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)BrazilArgentinaColumbiaChileOthersRegional scope can be customized
For a global outreach, the Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy 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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Chapter One: Report Overview
Chapter Two: Global Market Growth Trends
Chapter Three: Value Chain of Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market
Chapter Four: Players Profiles
Chapter Five: Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Analysis by Regions
Chapter Six: North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Analysis by Countries
Chapter Seven: Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Analysis by Countries
Chapter Eight: Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Analysis by Countries
Chapter Nine: Middle East and Africa Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Analysis by Countries
Chapter Ten: South America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Analysis by Countries
Chapter Eleven: Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Segment by Types
Chapter Twelve: Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Segment by Applications 12.1 Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Applications (2015-2020) 12.1.1 Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Market Share by Applications (2015-2020) 12.1.2 Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue and Market Share by Applications (2015-2020) 12.2 Longevity Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.3 Senescence Inhibition Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.4 Cardiovascular Diseases Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.5 Neural Degenerative Diseases Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.6 Ophthalmology Disorders Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020) 12.7 Cancer Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2015-2020)
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List of tablesList of Tables and Figures Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Size Growth Rate by Type (2020-2026) Figure Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Share by Type in 2019 & 2026 Figure Senolytic Drug Therapy Features Figure Gene Therapy Features Figure Immunotherapy Features Figure Others Features Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Size Growth by Application (2020-2026) Figure Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Share by Application in 2019 & 2026 Figure Longevity Description Figure Senescence Inhibition Description Figure Cardiovascular Diseases Description Figure Neural Degenerative Diseases Description Figure Ophthalmology Disorders Description Figure Cancer Description Figure Global COVID-19 Status Overview Table Influence of COVID-19 Outbreak on Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Industry Development Table SWOT Analysis Figure Porters Five Forces Analysis Figure Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Market Size and Growth Rate 2015-2026 Table Industry News Table Industry Policies Figure Value Chain Status of Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Figure Production Process of Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Figure Manufacturing Cost Structure of Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Figure Major Company Analysis (by Business Distribution Base, by Product Type) Table Downstream Major Customer Analysis (by Region) Table Acorda Therapeutics Profile Table Acorda Therapeutics Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Unity Biotechnology Profile Table Unity Biotechnology Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Antoxerene Profile Table Antoxerene Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Celgene Profile Table Celgene Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Cohbar Profile Table Cohbar Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Senex Biotechnology Profile Table Senex Biotechnology Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Human Longevity Inc. Profile Table Human Longevity Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table T.A. Sciences Profile Table T.A. Sciences Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Agex Therapeutics Profile Table Agex Therapeutics Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Recursion Pharmaceuticals Profile Table Recursion Pharmaceuticals Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Calico Life Sciences Profile Table Calico Life Sciences Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Spotlight Bioscience Profile Table Spotlight Bioscience Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Powervision Inc. Profile Table Powervision Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Sierra Sciences Llc Profile Table Sierra Sciences Llc Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Restorbio Profile Table Restorbio Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Insilico Medicine Profile Table Insilico Medicine Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Oisin Biotechnology Profile Table Oisin Biotechnology Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Senolytic Therapeutics Profile Table Senolytic Therapeutics Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Proteostasis Therapeutics Inc. Profile Table Proteostasis Therapeutics Inc. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Prana Biotechnology Ltd. Profile Table Prana Biotechnology Ltd. Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Table Cleara Biotech Profile Table Cleara Biotech Production, Value, Price, Gross Margin 2015-2020 Figure Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Regions (2015-2020) Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Regions in 2015 Table Global Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Regions in 2019 Figure North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Middle East and Africa Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure South America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) Table North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales by Countries (2015-2020) Table North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries in 2019 Table North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) by Countries (2015-2020) Table North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure North America Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2019 Figure United States Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Canada Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Mexico Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth (2015-2020) Figure Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) Growth (2015-2020) Table Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales by Countries (2015-2020) Table Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries in 2019 Table Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) by Countries (2015-2020) Table Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Europe Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2019 Figure Germany Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure UK Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure France Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Italy Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Spain Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Russia Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) Table Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales by Countries (2015-2020) Table Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales Market Share by Countries in 2019 Table Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) by Countries (2015-2020) Table Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries (2015-2020) Figure Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2015 Figure Asia-Pacific Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2019 Figure China Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Japan Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure South Korea Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Australia Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure India Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Southeast Asia Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Sales and Growth Rate (2015-2020) Figure Middle East and Africa Longevity and Anti-senescence Therapy Revenue ($) and Growth (2015-2020) continued
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Sweat Director Magnus von Horn on Cinema, Social Media, and the Promise of Poland – Variety
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Playing at Gteborg and Rotterdam this past week, Magnus von Horns sophomore feature Sweat has collected plaudits and prizes ever since it launched as part of the Cannes Festivals 2020 official selection last summer.
Since June, the Polish language film which offers an up-tempo character study of a twentysomething fitness influencer has collected festival hardware across the globe, claiming prizes in Chicago, Macau, Gdynia, and Trieste. On Saturday, the Goteborg-born filmmaker was awarded the Church of Sweden Film Prize ahead of his films hometown premiere later that evening.
WhenVarietyspoke with Lodz-based von Horn, he explained how his acclaimed film could only have been made outside of his native country.
Would this project be different were it set elsewhere?
The film would be very different were it set in Sweden. Poland is a great arena for this character. It doesnt have a general consensus as to how things should be; things can be politically incorrect or chauvinistic while others are the exact opposite. Theres such a mix of points of views; its so polarized politically, with so many fights about everything at the moment. [The only through line is] the capitalism that was so embraced after communism, which has created a mole system and mole people that love to feed off fast food TV and culture.
If you look at the world of influencers in Poland, as opposed to Sweden, the differences are night and day in terms of what works on social media and what an influencer does. Theres a big difference, and I dont think [the main character] Sylwia would work in Sweden.
Whys that?
Shes the perfect person to love and hate. Shes so easy to hate, and you need to be dedicated to love her. I think many people go and look for this dedication; they want to belong to something. There are many of these influencers in Poland, and one in particular has a huge following. Shes so hated and so loved that nobody is left without a reaction. [She leaves no room for apathy] and thats why shes so popular. She wouldnt be as popular if she werent hated!
I like the judgments. because I had them myself when I started working on the project. For a long time I thought [these influencers] were narcissists, but then, Im unable to post like them because Im scared of being judged. And I think thats more narcissistic than their behavior.
How would you describe the films emotional register, and its perspective on social media?
Its more about loneliness than fitness. Whats interesting in a fitness motivator is the emotional content she uses on her social media accounts, not the training routines.
When I started following fitness motivators on Snapchat and Instagram, I found 95% of them not so interesting, but the other 5% of the time I came across some deep emotional honesty, which really fascinated me. I was fascinated to find that in the jungle of everyday Instagram content. I liked that I needed to watch the 95% of bullshit to get to the 5% of gold it made the gold all the shinier. That emotional honesty I found on social media was better than what I watched in fiction cinema.
The film has a very particular visual aesthetic, really playing up the bright lights and artifice in a way thats somewhat uncommon for an intimate character study.
It has the faade of something thats very shallow, but what happened is very profound. I think that contrast creates a discomfort that I like very much. For me it was important to embrace everything that comes with the world of this fitness motivator, and everything in the environment she moves in. To not look at a shopping mall as ugly but to embrace it and love it with all the colors and music that comes with the world. Theres no point trying to remake that world with different kinds of visuals, trying to make it more tasteful or something.
How does that tie in to your larger aims as a filmmaker?
I think its really strong when you have characters that you feel very far away from at first glance, and suddenly theres a moment that connects you. Thats what cinema is. You sit with people both next to you and onscreen you wouldnt normally sit next to and you watch something intimate. You get a chance to get closer to the unknown, to something you probably wouldnt get close to otherwise.
Films shouldnt offer a full stop. They should [end] with a comma, and then you have to bring them with you once you finish watching. Otherwise, I dont see the point.
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Cutting-edge science seeking treatment for aging itself is one good thing to come out of deadly pandemic – Regina Leader-Post
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In fact, some scientists are calling COVID the worlds newest disease of aging, joining traditional culprits like cancer, heart ailments and Alzheimers.
More intriguingly, and hopefully, Farrelly and others say the pandemic is a compelling reason to double down on a fascinating new domain of medical research. Its goal, rather than finding cures for individual diseases, is to treat the aging process itself.
Old age makes humans vulnerable to a range of killers, now including the novel coronavirus. Finding a way to slow down or reverse the aging process will protect people not just from traditional foes like diabetes and hypertension, but infectious diseases such as COVID-19, the thinking goes.
Its a very hot area, said Steven Austad, a biologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. And COVID-19, he said, is focusing attention on it.
I think of it as 21st century medicine, as opposed to 20th century medicine, in which there were these silos of people who treat your heart, people who treat your lungs, people who treat your brain, Austad said. (Now) theyve started talking to each other.
Targeting aging, argues Farrelly, ought to be the major public health goal of the 21st century.
Nobody has run away from aging by dieting and exercising ... To change the paradigm, we need to look at pharmaceuticals
What anti-aging scientists are pursuing is not the lifestyle fixes long proven to lessen disease risk, like regular exercise and a healthy diet. Instead, theyre searching for drugs and dietary supplements that could actually tweak human biology to better withstand the ravages of time.
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COVID-19 the new disease of growing old, hastening the work of anti-aging scientists – National Post
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Our success in delaying death in late life made us vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality. Photo by Carlos Osorio/Reuters
Underlying the research are some cold, hard facts about human biology. Evolution, it seems, has ensured humans live healthily long enough to reproduce and look after their offspring until they become independent.
That translates into an average biological warranty period of about 70 years, the time before which the body begins to undermine itself, increasing the risk of disease and frailty, says Farrelly. So as weve learned to at least manage diseases of old-age and get people to live longer, the result is often years of illness and disability at the end of life, he said.
But thats not to say that growing old and weak in the way we expect is written in stone.
Theres no law of physics or law of the universe that says that aging has to occur, said Austad. Living organisms are almost definable by their ability to repair themselves Aging is the ultimate failure of repair. (But) that doesnt mean its not possible to intervene in the system.
Such intervention would not necessarily extend lifespans, but ideally make the later years healthier and more productive, a major advance in itself.
That would change the nature of human existence incredibly, said Austad. If you had another 10 to 20 years of healthy life to look forward to, that might influence almost everything you did when you went to school, when you had kids, how many careers you had.
Rapamycin may be the most promising of possible anti-aging treatments.
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International Space Station will be visible in the sky above Pennsylvania this week – PhillyVoice.com
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Pennsylvania residents will have an opportunity to see the International Space Station as it glides above the state this week, but those who wish to catch it will have to combine timing and location with a little luck from the weather.
The ISS circles the Earth in low orbit approximately every 93 minutes, but certain times of the year offer better opportunities to see it depending on the location.
Each week, Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston determines sighting opportunities for over 6,700 locations worldwide. They provide precise viewing information online at their Spot the Station site.
Pennsylvania residents will have a number of chances in the coming days, with certain dates and conditions best-suited for some locations over others. The overcast weather brought on by this week's nor'easter doesn't help matters, but clear skies are expected in Philadelphia on Thursday, for example, and will offer a good window to seek out the ISS in the sky.
The chart below includes suggestsopportunities to see the space stationfrom Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site in Queen Village, one of several recommended spots in the city included on the Spot the Station site.
In the chart above, Max Height refers to the height of the space station from the horizon in the night sky.
"The horizon is at zero degrees, and directly overhead is ninety degrees," NASA says. "If you hold your fist at arm's length and place your fist resting on the horizon, the top will be about 10 degrees."
To reach the Max Height, you can stack your fists to add by 10 and reach a general height for the peak point of the ISS's path, as explained in the video below.
The ISS has been in orbit for just over 22 years and has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years and three months. The station is collaboration between the five participating space agencies of the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada.
To find ideal viewing times, head over to the Spot the Station site and customize your location.
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Spacewalking astronauts will install new cameras and wrap up space station power upgrades today. Watch it live! – Space.com
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On Monday (Feb. 1) two NASA astronauts will set out for their second spacewalk together to tackle battery and camera upgrades at the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, who arrived at the space station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft in November and completed their first spacewalk together on Wednesday (Jan. 27), are scheduled to exit the station through the Quest airlock at 7:05 a.m. EST (1205 GMT) and will spend about 6.5 hours working in the vacuum of space.
NASA TV will provide live coverage of the spacewalk preparations beginning at 5:30 a.m. EST (1030 GMT). You can watch it live here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, or directly via the agency's website.
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Hopkins and Glover will tackle a variety of tasks during this spacewalk, including the installation of a new high-definition camera on the Destiny laboratory and the replacement of another camera on the station's starboard truss. The spacewalkers will also install one last lithium-ion battery to wrap up a big space station power upgrade that began in 2017.
After Hopkins and Glover emerge from the Quest airlock, the spacewalkers' first task will be to head over the the space station's Port-4 (P4) truss structure, where they will install an adapter plate for the new lithium-ion battery. The battery was installed at the P4 truss in advance by the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm, NASA officials wrote in an ISS blog.
With the battery work complete, the astronauts will head over to the other side of the orbiting laboratory to replace high-definition cameras on the starboard truss. The spacewalkers will also route some ethernet cables at the starboard truss before heading over to the Japanese Kibo laboratory to install a "wrist vision" camera on Kibo's 33-foot (10 meters) robotic arm.
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Monday's spacewalk will be the fourth spacewalk of Hopkins' career and the second for Glover. Hopkins will be designated as extravehicular crew member 1 (EV-1), which means he will wear the spacesuit with red stripes and will be the first to exit the airlock. As EV-2, Glover will wear the plain white suit with no stripes.
NASA is planning two more spacewalks "in the near future," the agency said in a statement. After Monday's spacewalk, the next spacewalk will see Glover and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins prepare the space station for new solar arrays that will be installed at the station later this year. Then for the fourth spacewalk of 2021, Rubins will head out with Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to "continue upgrading station components," NASA said in the statement.
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Do Facebook, Twitter and YouTube censor conservatives? Claims ‘not supported by the facts,’ new research says – USA TODAY
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Despite repeatedcharges of anti-conservative bias from former President Donald Trump and other GOP critics, Facebook, Twitter and Googles YouTube are not slanted against right-leaning users, a new report out of New York University found.
Like previous research, False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives, concludes thatrather than censoring conservatives, social media platforms amplify their voices.
Republicans, or more broadly conservatives, have been spreading a form of disinformation on how they're treated on social media. They complain theyre censored and suppressed but, not only is there not evidence to support that, what evidence exists actually cuts in the other direction, said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, which released the report Monday.
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The report lands as a unifying argument is taking shape that major forces in American society big media, big government, big business are muzzling conservatives. That argument intensified after the major social media platforms suspended Trump out of fear he would incite violence following the U.S. Capitol attack.
There is a broad campaign going on from the right to argue that theyre being silenced or cast aside, and that spirit is what is helping to feed the extremism that we are seeing in our country right now, Barrett said. We cant just allow that to be a debating point. Its not legitimate. Its not supported by the facts.
Many groups across the political spectrum feel their opinions and perspectives are under siege whensocial media platforms moderate content, researchers say, but its difficult to make the case that these platforms are biased against any one group since the platforms disclose so little about how they decide what content is allowed and what is not.
Facebook, Twitter and Googles YouTube are not slanted against right-leaning users, a new report says.(Photo: LIONEL BONAVENTURE, AFP/Getty Images)
For their part, Facebook and Twitter say their platforms strike a balance between promoting free expression and removing hate, abuse and misinformation. They acknowledge making enforcement errors but insist their policies are applied fairly to everyone.
Conservative author Denise McAllister does not see it that way. And shes called on the social media platforms to stop moderating speech altogether.
This is a platform, right? You don't need to act like mama Twitter or mama Facebook. Just let people say what they are going to say, whether its true, false, whatever, she recently told USA TODAY. You have to just trust the people as individuals and not to try to impose power because you are going to do it inconsistently.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last week that Facebook would no longer recommend political and civic groups to users and would downplay politics in people's News Feeds.
A recent poll shows that majorities in both parties think political censorship is likely occurring on social media, but that belief is most prevalent on the political right.
Nine in 10 Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party say its at least somewhat likely that social media platforms censor political viewpoints they find objectionable, up slightly from 85% in 2018, according to an August report from the Pew Research Center.
CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg appears on a monitor as he testifies remotely during a congressional hearing to discuss reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act .(Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS, POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The perception that social media platforms censor conservatives is regularly circulated by Fox News hosts, GOP lawmakers in congressional hearings and online pundits. That, in turn, has intensified GOP calls to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields social media companies from legal liability for what their users post and gives platforms immunity when moderating objectionable content.
Bipartisan support to restrain the vast power held by a handful of large corporations grew during the Trump administration and shows no signs of ebbing as Democrats retake the White House.
Social media platforms have been judged harshly by both parties for how they policed content over the past year, from the COVID-19 pandemic to election-related misinformation and disinformation.
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Democrats, including Biden, say the social media platforms dont restrict or remove enough harmful content, particularly hate speech, extremism, hoaxes and falsehoods. They have called on companies to play a bigger and more responsible role in curating public debate.
Those on the right say these platforms have too much latitude to restrict and remove content and target conservatives based on their political beliefs.
Those grievances boiled over when Facebook, Twitter and YouTube suspended Trumps accounts, citing the risk that he would use his social media megaphone to incite more violence before the end of his term.
After being permanently suspended from Twitter, Trump accused the company of banning free speech in cahoots with the Democrats and Radical Left.
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To avoid online censorship, government must force Big Tech to be more transparent, expert says – Yahoo Sports
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Censorship online by Big Tech is a bad idea, in large part because its a distraction from the problem of how social media companies promote, spread and amplify harmful information, according to author Peter Pomerantsev.
Its ridiculous to think that you can regulate the billions of things people say every day, or that we should, or that its even feasible. So I dont think thats the way forward, Pomerantsev said in an interview on The Long Game, a Yahoo News podcast. Therell be a way to get out of the whole tricky thing of taking one comment down or leaving it up.
The way out, he said, is through forcing the tech companies to be transparent about how they are manipulating the spread of information, and holding them accountable to prevent public harms.
Pomerantsev is a Russian-born journalist now based in London whose parents were hounded by the KGB secret police in Soviet Russia. His book This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality argues that phrases like freedom of expression have been hacked by authoritarian leaders and governments like Vladimir Putin in Russia and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.
Authoritarians use freedom of speech as an excuse to spread massive amounts of disinformation at the click of a button, while employing online mobs and troll farms to drown out and intimidate critical voices and obscure truth. This constitutes a sort of censorship through noise, Pomerantsev and two others wrote in a recent article for the London School of Economics Institute of Global Affairs, where he is a visiting senior fellow.
But countering autocrats doesnt have to mean removing the posts of ordinary people or taking them off their preferred social media platforms, he said, which has become a growing concern among many Republicans.
We thought that for a long time, the federal government is infuriating, Tucker Carlson said on Fox News Wednesday. The bigger threat to your family turned out to be huge publicly held corporations, particularly the tech monopolies.
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In fact, focus on censorship and cancel culture actually distracts from solving the problem of disinformation and all the chaos and confusion and real-world harm it brings with it in a way that preserves free speech, Pomerantsev said.
A lot of the virality is amplified artificially. Thats kind of how a lot of these platforms were designed, he said. That kind of artificial amplification I think really has to end.
Fake amplification everything from gaming algorithms and search engine optimization through to amplification through coordinated inauthentic activity I think that probably has to end if the internet is going to be a just reflection of society and not this kind of weird funhouse mirror that distorts everything, Pomerantsev said.
One of the first steps toward reducing disinformation is algorithm transparency: revealing how the social media and Big Tech companies engineer which information rises to the top and is seen by large numbers of people. Google, Facebook and TikTok have all taken some recent steps in this direction, Axios reported this week, but it was voluntary and most experts think this issue needs to be overseen by government regulators.
When Trumps people would say, Google pushes conservative views right down, liberal news up, we dont know because Google has not shown anyone its formulas that shape search results, Pomerantsev said. Thats ridiculous.
Carlson addressed the same root cause on his show. Twitter refuses to release data on who it bans, he said.
Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., sent letters to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in late January urging the companies to address the fundamental design features of their social networks that facilitate the spread of extreme, radicalizing content to their users. The letters were co-signed by 38 other House Democrats.
The lawmakers drew a straight line between the focus of social media companies on maximizing user engagement and the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by Trump supporters who believed the former presidents lies about the 2020 election.
The rioters who attacked the Capitol earlier this month were radicalized in part in digital echo chambers that these platforms designed, built, and maintained, and that the platforms are partially responsible for undermining our shared sense of objective reality, for intensifying fringe political beliefs, for facilitating connections between extremists, leading some of them to commit real-world, physical violence, Malinowski and Eshoo wrote.
The lawmakers cited a Wall Street Journal investigation from last May that revealed Facebook knew in 2018 that its algorithms sometimes radicalized its users, but did not take action to reduce this because it would reduce profits. Our algorithms exploit the human brains attraction to divisiveness, a presentation created internally said, noting that the company was serving more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention and increase time on the platform.
Malinowski and Eshoo have proposed a change to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act a law targeted for reform by conservatives as well that would hold tech companies accountable for content they proactively promote for business reasons, if doing so leads to specific offline harms.
Malinowski said in a hearing this week that this is a solution that Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on. We can believe that the biggest problem is on the right, on the far right or on the far left it doesnt matter. We can debate that. Whichever of those things you believe you should be for this, because the mechanism works the same way. It pushes people on the left further left. It pushes people on the right further right, until they reach an extreme.
Pomerantsev pointed to the United Kingdoms approach, which says in his words that companies have to think about the harms they cause, and those harms could be around public health or some forms of personal abuse.
And the question is what are the companies doing almost like in a health and safety kind of regime to mitigate that? So are their algorithms making it too easy for people to bully others or to harass them? Pomerantsev said. Are the way their systems are designed making it too easy to spread this information thats dangerous to peoples health?
The British have said there needs to be a regulator thats making a judgment about whether theyre doing enough around those issues, and are working to set up a system in which Ofcom, its communications regulator, could issue fines if the companies are found at fault.
The tech companies have lobbied the British government against giving Ofcom punitive regulatory powers.
But as Pomerantsev wrote in his book and expounded on in his interview with Yahoo News, the Big Tech companies have acquired so much information about their users which is most people that there is a real question about whether they are infringing upon freedom of thought.
To some degree our private thoughts, creative impulses, and senses of self are shaped by information forces greater than ourselves, he wrote in This Is Not Propaganda.
Are they actually invading your freedom of thought? Are they actually crossing the line of you, and then using it against you? he said. What is that line of our unconscious that deserves to be protected?
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