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What is the context of this research?

In 2013 study, Harvard Medical School's Sinclair Lab caused muscle tissue of 60 year old equivalent mice to resemble 20 years old after one week of injections of NMN! The study is at this link.

At a 2014 event in this video link at 18:22, Dr. Church, describes a gene altering aging reversal in a sample of his own cells. The Church Lab's Personal Genome Project (PGP) also hosts full human genomes and trait data from thousands of volunteers, including Alex and me.

We will determine suitable functional age biomarkers and test technology via research and expert advice from Church, Sinclair and others. We will compare that data to the H-SCAN Test's 12 biomarkers and hardware. I sold it's 1990 technology to doctors worldwide until the inventor retired. See H-SCAN video in Additional Info section.

What is the significance of this project?

Church and Sinclair's belief that reversing aging is inevitable, not speculative, and their credentials as top world scientists are reported in Time and the Boston Globe.

The Church Lab has encouraged us to build a new updated test to succeed the H-SCAN. The test will measure functional biomarkers of the lab's PGP subjects compared to their sequenced genomes and of clinical trial subjects elsewhere, estimating the age at which a person physically functions, enabling researchers to validate measurements from genetic and biochemical aging interventions and reliably compare results across subjects, studies and approaches.



Our research will determine which biomarkers provide reliable indications of aging level and which test technologies can reliably measure the biomarkers at reasonable cost.

What are the goals of the project?

Our goal is preparation of a device requirements document that an engineer can use to create a design for the test prototype.

The document will contain a list of the functional aging biomarkers to be tested, the range of values to be tested, how each biomarker declines with age, why each biomarker was selected, specifications and sources of testing instruments for each biomarker, integration of the instruments in the device, sequence of tests, and requirements for user interface, software calculations, regulatory agencies, exterior design, connectivity, data security, and installation.

This will be accomplished by researching scientific literature and contacting scientists, health practitioners, doctors using the H-SCAN, the H-SCAN inventor, and test instrument providers.