Hyperbaric oxygen chambers could stop genetic aging, clinical study suggests
Hyperbaric chambers could be a fountain of youth , the study authors say.
Image credits: Shamir Medical Center
Aging is characterized by the progressive loss of physiological capacity, the new study explains. At the cellular level, two key hallmarks of aging include telomere shortening and cellular senescence (the accumulation of old, malfunctioning cells). Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel wanted to see if this process could be stopped using hyperbaric oxygen chambers.
“Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) utilizes 100% oxygen in an environmental pressure higher than one absolute atmospheres (ATA) to enhance the amount of oxygen dissolved in body’s tissues,” the study reads.
Jan 19, 2021
Researchers at Tel Aviv University successfully install a locust ear into a robot, allowing it to hear and follow instructions.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
What happens when zoologists and a computer chip engineer meet at a Tel Aviv University campus cafe? No, this isn’t a joke – it happened to be a cross-faculty project that ended up combining an insect’s ear with a computer chip with the result inserted into a robot so it can hear and respond to voices.
Zoologists Yossi Yuval and Amir Eili met with engineer Dr. Ben Maoz and talked about whether or not it is possible to build a bio-hybrid system that would integrate a biological system into a robot. The person who picked up the gauntlet was graduate student Idan Fischel, who took the concept and made it work – leading to a recently published paper in the scientific journal