Bo and I discuss some of the leading candidates for extending both human lifespan and “health-span”, including metformin, nicotinamide riboside & nicotinamide mononucleotide, and caloric restriction. We also chat about some of the companies working in this area, as well as novel business models that may or may not be a strategy to enable rigorous research of something as difficult to study as human lifespan.
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Bo and I discuss some of the leading candidates for extending both human lifespan and “health-span”, including metformin, nicotinamide riboside & nicotinamide mononucleotide, and caloric restriction. We also chat about some of the companies working in this area, as well as novel business models that may or may not be a strategy to enable rigorous research of something as difficult to study as human lifespan.
NeuroByte - Neurons talking like viruses, & is your mind's eye blind?
Wired to be Weird
34 minutes 31 seconds
7 years ago
NeuroByte - Neurons talking like viruses, & is your mind's eye blind?
Bo and I discuss two science stories from the recent past. One is a discovery that neurons are capable of trading genetic material to one another directly - meaning, that one neuron can express a gene, transcribe it into RNA, and then send it to another neuron in which that gene wasn't expressed. Second, we discuss a possible condition termed "aphantasia", which describes a population of people who are entirely incapable of visualizing an imagined image.
Wired to be Weird
Bo and I discuss some of the leading candidates for extending both human lifespan and “health-span”, including metformin, nicotinamide riboside & nicotinamide mononucleotide, and caloric restriction. We also chat about some of the companies working in this area, as well as novel business models that may or may not be a strategy to enable rigorous research of something as difficult to study as human lifespan.
