DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
LET A PILL DO THE EXERCISE FOR YOU
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- Called ExPlas, it involves the blood plasma of young adults who exercise regularly. Here's what we know:
- A Norwegian scientific team is injecting blood plasma from healthy, young, exercising adults into people aged 50 to 75 years old with early-stage Alzheimer's Disease
- Their hope is not to just help non-exercising young people but also the elderly and those with disabilities
- A survey of 100 countries found that 33% of people don't exercise
- An exercise pill or injection could replicate the beneficial results of exercise
- Exercise is known to release beneficial hormones
- The key to the pill or injection is what hormones should comprise it
- By injecting the blood plasma of healthy, young exercisers, the Norwegian team is transferring all of the beneficial hormones
- Many experts believe that this group of Norwegian scientists are bringing us close to an effective exercise pill.
JEFF BEZOS' ALL-FEMALE SPACE MISSION
- In a world first, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos is fielding an all-female space flight crew in early 2024 with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez leading the space mission. Here's what we know:
- This is the first space mission comprised entirely of women
- Bezos fiancée Laurn Sanchez is a journalist, former LA news anchor and a licensed helicopter pilot
- Sanchez will lead the space flight set for early 2024
- 5 other women will join her
- The Blue Origin space capsule they will travel in to the edges of space is autonomous and reusable
- Blue Origin was founded by Bezos to pioneer an era of commercialized space travel, including by space "tourists"
- Bezos was aboard the first crewed Blue Origin mission to the edges of space on July 20, 2021
- Sanchez has no experience as an astronaut but will be fully trained for the upcoming mission
- She is the founder of Black Ops Aviation, a female-owned aerial film and production company
- NASA, as part of its Artemis mission to the Moon in 2025, will also have female astronauts on board.
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