The Rush to Reassure Us that the Longevity Industry is Not Working on Longevity
When various talking heads unite to tell us that the longevity industry isn't actually working to extend human life span, and it is all about letting you die at the usual time with less arthritis and pain, I'm not entirely sure who they think needs to be reassured in this way. The character of the powers that be, in the English language world anyway, appears to be that they are terrified of all possible change, and project that fear onto the populace. Their propaganda follows that apparent view. Under the hood, from person to person, who knows why they think it is necessary to toe the current party line that work on the me...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 24, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
5 Years Later the United States Is Still Paying for Its TPP Blunder
Colin GrabowLast month —January 23 to be exact —marked the five-year anniversary of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. The country has been paying for it ever since.Comprised of the United States and eleven other Pacific Rim countries —including economic heavyweight Japan—the TPP was found by a 2016Cato analysis to result in net trade liberalization. A study by the U.S. International Trade Commission calculated a real U.S. GDP increase of$42.7 billion through 2032 as a result of TPP membership while a Peterson Institute for Internati...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
This (Steel) Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time
Scott LincicomeYesterday, the Biden administrationannounced anagreement with Japan to lift some of the U.S. “national security” tariffs on Japanese steel products that the Trump administration imposed in 2018 pursuant toSection 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. As with a similar European deal announced last Fall (see ourwriteup here) and implemented in January, the U.S.-Japan deal has been lauded as “ending” Trump’s steel tariffs and “mending ties with a major ally, ” but a closer examination reveals it to share many, if not more, of the EU agreement’s shortcomings and to continue President Trump...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
The State Of Exoskeletons In 2022
Science fiction has for long fantasised about ways to augment fragile humans’ power and endurance through mechanical means. In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s abilities are enhanced via a combat jacket. Humans in Avatar board the AMP suit to tread the deadly environment on Pandora. Such depictions of exoskeletons – or wearable mechanical structures that attach to joints to assist and/or enhance strength and endurance for motion – have left the realm of science fiction and have become part of our reality.
Back in 2014, a paraplegic man suited in a robotic exoskeleton made the symbolic kick-off for the Worl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Robotics exoskeleton exoskeleton technology Source Type: blogs
Do emojis represent the whole gamut of human emotion?
By Matthew Warren
Emojis have become part of our everyday communication online, allowing us to succinctly communicate how we’re feeling in a way that written language cannot. Psychologists are even beginning to use emojis in research, to allow children or other participants to respond without the need for traditional questionnaires.
But is the library of emojis that is available to us truly representative of the range of emotions that we feel? A new study in Scientific Reports suggests that, broadly, it is — but that there are some important gaps too.
Many psychologists have moved away from the idea t...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Facebook Faces Twitter Source Type: blogs
Otsuka and Virtual Reality start-up Jolly Good sign $43M deal to promote Social Skills Training (SST) therapies, helping schizophrenia patients first
Jolly Good and Teijin Pharma Form a Partnership to Develop VR Digital Therapeutics for Depression
Otsuka signs on Jolly Good for $43M mental health VR deal (Fierce Biotech):
The duo will build out software—hosted on Jolly Good’s VR goggles and connected tablet devices, and backed by Otsuka’s expertise in developing neurological therapeutics—that takes a social skills training (SST) approach to treating mental illness. SST is a behavioral therapy in which patients with anxiety, mood and personality disorders, among other conditions, are taught on a step-by-step basis how to navigate specific social interactions.
The...
Source: SharpBrains - February 2, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation behavioral-therapy Jolly Good mental illness neurological therapeutics Otsuka pharmaceutical schizophrenia social skills training Source Type: blogs
When Does Research Become a Fixation?
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself —a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have.I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately.It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get enough of them. They’re my personal Pandora’s Box. I opened the beautiful, ornately engraved box, saw the plentiful wonders inside, and now I can’t shut the lid. Is this anADHD obsession, or a newfound joy? I can’t tell, which is why I’m troubled. Have you seen myGoodreads timeline? I r...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Writing Source Type: blogs
Only 46 Percent of Employment ‐Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2020
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so ‐called employment‐based green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant workers must use employment‐based green cards. Family‐based immigration is the norm across the developed world. Japan is the onlyOECD country that has more immigrant workers than immigrant family members, but the difference is larger in the United States that other countries. Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family mem...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Choice Could Depoliticize Battles over Schools
David BoazThe Washington Postreports—yetagain—that conservative parent/activists are running for and often winning seats on local school boards in order to change school policies on virtual learning, masks, and the kinds of books in school libraries. Regardless of what one thinks about the specific policy changes that school board candida tes may propose, the whole issue illustrates the problem of public schooling: that there must be one solution for a whole school district, a whole state, or even the whole country. Over the years parents, taxpayers, and other voters havedisagreed over many things: evoluti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
The Premier Who Helped Change U.S.-Japan Relations
A Japanese politician who played an important part in the history of U.S.-Japan relations died recently, and chances are you ' ve never heard of him. Kaifu Toshiki was Japan ' s prime minister from 1989 to 1991, a critical time in U.S.-Japan relations as the world was transitioning from the Cold War to the fog that lay beyond. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 24, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 24th 2022
In conclusion, senolytic drugs have shown promising results in the elimination of senescent cells and in alleviating various diseases in animal models. However, in patients, there is a paucity in data on the efficacy and safety of senotherapeutics from clinical trials, including systemic effects and side-effects. In this regard it is important to assess the specificity of senolytics in killing targeted senescent cells and their cytotoxic effects, to identify reliable markers for intervention responses, to elucidate interactions with comorbidities and other drugs, and to standardise administration protocols.
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
North Korea Hints at Return of Long ‐Range Missile, Nuclear Weapon Testing
Eric GomezThis year is shaping up to be a very active one for North Korea ’s missile program. Kim Jong Un’s regime has already conducted four ballistic missile tests so far this year, including two tests of a new, maneuverable warhead that North Korea called a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). All of the missiles tested in 2022 thus far, and most tests conducted since the breakdown of nuclear diplomacy in February 2019, were of relatively short ‐range systems. This trend could change, however, due torecent guidance from North Korea ’s politburo.The politburo report instructs the country ’s nationa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Let the Sun Set on Solar Tariffs
ConclusionThe best decision by President Biden would be to refuse to extend these solar tariffs —one ofmany examples of how freeing trade can help counter climate change. Yet what may well prevent Biden from making the best decision are the politics involved and, especially, the prospect of being accused of favoring China and abandoning U.S. labor unions. But surely Joe Biden should have realized by now that, in any trade decision he makes that relates to China and regardless of what he actually does, the president will be accused by his political opponents of kowtowing to the Chinese government. And if his goal is to ex...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus, Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
Altos Labs Officially Launches with $3 Billion in Funding to Tackle In Vivo Reprogramming
Altos Labs was formed to develop in vivo reprogramming into a viable class of therapies to treat aging. Reprogramming occurs during embryonic development, and the discovery of the Yamanaka factors allows this process to be enacted in any cell. To date this has largely been used in the development of induced pluripotent stem cells, a source of cells for research and therapy. The other effects of reprogramming are coming to be just as interesting, however: a resetting of the epigenetic marks characteristic of cells in old tissues, and a restoration of mitochondrial function. Studies in mice show that partial reprogramming, r...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Shape-Shifting Microbot to Repair Bones
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden and Okayama University in Japan developed a shape-shifting microrobot that can self-create a bone-like material under the right conditions. The electroactive material responds to low voltage electric current and changes its volume and shape, allowing the researchers to pre-program specific movements and guiding the resulting architecture. The technology could be useful in stimulating bone healing, particularly in problematic fractures. The researchers envisage that the soft material could maneuver itself into a fracture, expand and then mineralize and harden, providing a scaff...
Source: Medgadget - January 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Orthopedic Surgery Source Type: blogs
