Tag: Health
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“Can we rejuvenate an organism?” No one knows for sure, but Juan Carlos Belmonte is getting close. In a fascinating talk at the All-In Summit, Belmonte explains how he’s using cellular reprogramming to reverse aging in mice and, perhaps one day, us. Why We Age After age 40, the likelihood…
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I work for myself. That means no juicy bigco health insurance. But I’ve found another way — a Christian health share. Since 2018, I’ve been using a service called Medishare. Medishare is a collective of people that share each other’s medical bills. Health shares will usually exempt you from any…
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I’m 38 years old. Of all my friends, only one has a child, a little boy. So if I had to lay a bet, I’d say our generation is going to use a lot of IVF. A fascinating startup called Alife might make that process a lot easier. How AI…
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I read the deal memo and ran the numbers. Everything looked great. But was this company really legit? There was only one way to find out. The Mystery Shopper Method This afternoon, I dug into a promising telehealth startup. I liked it from the investor perspective — now I wanted…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! No one wants to get old. But how can we stop and even reverse aging? Perhaps a Dream Team of the world’s greatest scientists. And a whole lot of money. Well, that just became a reality. For those of us who follow venture capital, the news…
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A fascinating new device could one provide the elusive male contraceptive: German design graduate Rebecca Weiss has won a James Dyson Award for a male contraceptive device called Coso, which uses ultrasound waves to temporarily halt sperm regeneration. Weiss’s Coso device is designed to be a reversible contraceptive solution. To…
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In southern China near the border with Laos, there is a mine. To this day, it is heavily guarded by the Chinese government. Any journalist who tries to visit is detained. Inside the mine: the possible origin of the COVID pandemic. Scientists identified the animal that first transmitted the original…
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At 5 a.m. on Saturday, Aparna Bansal’s cellphone rang. “Can you come now?” said a man from the New Delhi hospital where her 76-year-old father is being treated for Covid-19. The instructions were clear, she said: Bring oxygen or take your father away. Her husband lines up at 4 a.m.…
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+ COVID+ Coronavirus, COVID Vaccine, COVID-19, Crisis, Health, India, Medicine, Mumbai, Pandemic, Sars-cov-2+
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Harvard researchers have invented a mask that can test the wearer for COVID: Researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have figured out how to integrate a freeze-dried diagnostic Covid-19 test into a face mask. The test reacts with exhaled particles and gives a diagnosis in 90…
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