Brain Science and BioTech
Learning about Human Longevity from Rockfish
From plastic surgery to skincare regimens to diet changes, humans go to great lengths to delay the aging process. However, the key to longevity may lie in an unexpected place - the bottom of the ocean. Rockfish, which [...]
How AI’s Role will Change in 2023 and Beyond
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown from a fantasy of a futuristic world to the impressive reality of now. Though AI has the power to use data to change an environment with mind-blowing speed, there are also some caveats [...]
CRISPR Technology’s Future Impact on Human Longevity
Chasing hope after years of treatment, two long-term cancer patients found the experimental gene editing process. Katie Pope Kopp and Victor Bartolome volunteered for trials testing how “genetic scissors” could fight the disease inside their DNA. Kopp and [...]
The Future of Blockchain Technology
Everywhere you look, blockchain is grabbing headlines. From sudden cryptocurrency highs and lows to announcements of increasing federal oversight, it has made waves across economic sectors and become frequent dinner table talk. Nobel Prize laureates, former political leaders, [...]
What Long-Lived Animals Tell Us About Human Longevity
At the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, burrowed in the deep murk without any hint of a brain, live quahogs could change Alzheimer's research. Some turtles, crocodiles, and salamanders demonstrate remarkably low aging rates that might help [...]
The Technology Behind Deep Sea Exploration
It's a common refrain: despite covering 71 percent of Earth, less than 20 percent of the ocean has been mapped or explored by humankind. Much of it hasn't even been seen! Thousands of feet deep and teeming with [...]