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Google's project to extend life, Calico, announces $1.5 billion research center

Posted in Business on 4th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Calico will work with big pharma to create and market new drugs for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's

Alzheimers patients to be treated with the blood of under 30s

Posted in Medicine on 23rd Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Alzheimers patients in the US will be given transfusions of young people's blood as part of a promising new treatment thats nowhere near as crazy as it sounds.

Older People Sleep Less. Now We Know Why.

Posted in Science on 21st Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

A new study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and University of Toronto researchers offers, for the first time, a neurological reason for the phenomenon.

Declining intelligence in old age linked to visual processing speed

Posted in Medicine on 8th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Age-related declines in intelligence are strongly related to declines on a very simple task of visual perception speed.

New drug reverses effects of Alzheimers disease in mice

Posted in Science on 7th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

The compound, TC-2153, inhibits the negative effects of a protein called STEP on learning and memory. These cognitive functions are impaired in Alzheimers.