A Paradigm Shift in Aging Research?

It has been known for some time that young blood plasma can confer beneficial effects on various organs in mice, although the mechanisms and implications remained unclear. A recent breakthrough experiment is attracting more attention to this area of research: rats treated with a plasma mixture known as E5 subsequently had their effective biological age measured by epigenetic clocks, involving 593 tissue samples. The result was a halving of the epigenetic ages of blood, heart, and liver tissue, and a lesser reduction (still statistically significant) in the epigenetic age of the hypothalamus. This has been heralded as the single most dramatic age-reversal experiment in mammals to date.

On Saturday 18th September, the lead designer of these experiments, Dr Harold Katcher, will join London Futurists to present his analysis of the findings, his own distinctive theories of aging, and his expectation for future research and applications. He will also be answering questions about his new book, "The Illusion of Knowledge: The paradigm shift in aging research that shows the way to human rejuvenation", https://www.amazon.co.uk/Illusion-Knowledge-paradigm-research-rejuvenation-ebook/dp/B09C7JNB64/

** Please note that, due to scheduling issues, this event is starting one hour later, that is at 5pm UK time, than most other London Futurists webinars. **

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This event will be hosted on Zoom. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t8FlwdbKTyGlyl7mtohp5Q

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Dr. Harold Katcher is one of the discoverers of the human breast cancer gene (BRCA1), and has thousands of citations in the scientific literature, with publications ranging from protein structure to bacteriology, biotechnology, bioinformatics and biochemistry. He was the Academic Director for Natural Sciences for the Asian Division of the University of Maryland Global Campus, and nowadays is Chief Scientific Officer at Yuvan Research Inc., which is working on the development of rejuvenation treatments. See https://www.ntzplural.com/harold-katcher-launches-book

Dr Katcher's book is being published by NTZ, a publishing house specialized in the rejuvenation field: https://www.ntzplural.com/

For more details of the experiments with E5, see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.07.082917v1.full.pdf

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The webinar will start broadcasting at 5pm UK time on Sat 18th September. To find this time in other timezones, see https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210918T160000&p1=136

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As the discussion proceeds, attendees will be welcome to raise questions and vote to prioritise questions raised by others.

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