The DNA Behind Longevity: Insights, Innovations, and Tech Icons with Jan Vijg | 218

September 12, 2023

Jan Vijg, a foremost expert on DNA, aging, and the cutting edge of innovation. His lab at  Albert Einstein College of Medicine studies the process of human aging, its causal mechanisms, and how these mechanisms limit the life span of our species. They are particularly interested in the role of genome instability in aging and cancer.

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The Learning With Lowell show is a series for the everyday mammal. In this show we’ll learn about leadership, science, and people building their change into the world. The goal is to dig deeply into people who most of us wouldn’t normally ever get to hear. The Host of the show – Lowell Thompson- is a lifelong autodidact, serial problem solver, and founder of startups.

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Jan Vijg links

https://www.einsteinmed.edu/faculty/11318/jan-vijg/

https://www.vijglab.org/jan

Timestamps

01:00 Greatest Achievements

07:10 AI/ML  Innovation / stagnation

12:30 Profitability and innovation 

17:30 Outliers / Elon Musk / Steve Jobs

21:30 Complexity and innovation

23:40 Science and incremental innovation / CRISPR

24:50 Full Funding affecting research

26:10 Team members needed for his research

29:30 Errors, trust system, and proper research

32:10 Complex parts of Jan’s research / DNA artifacts & mutations

34:15 Advantage of error rate / mutation in dna 

39:10 Cells being naturally immortal / Aging / Longevity

45:00 Centaurians, Nir Barzilai, DNA error rate / animal frequency DNA errors

 46:40 Results of increasing mutation rate to determine affects on longevity and aging

52:30 Research partnerships /projects since 1999

55:05 10 more years of research

56:30 His research and determining diagnostics / spin offs / treatments 

01:01:50 Dieting, aging, life span differences 

01:06:30 Science evolving humans

01:09:30 Eye surgery feeling

01:11:50 Oppenheimer as greatest scientist 

01:12:14 Book Recommendations

01:19:45 India and China science institutions 

01:22:20 Warring state period / world wars

01:23:15 Book release date / Kissenger 

01:27:30 Structures of society 

01:32:20 Modern china, culture, organ harvesting

01:36:30 Ways to stay up to date

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