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[kwinji @kwinji_]

January.

Thank you.

[Abimbola @Bimbochan]

With Collen Kebinatshipi’s 43.44, three Africans are officially in the top six on the all-time 400m list🥳🥳🥳

[TMZ @TMZ]

⭐ Bone Thugs-N-Harmony received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today!

[kwinji @kwinji_]

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[Mmegi @MmegiOnline]

JustIn: World champion Collen Kebinatshipi stormed to victory in the men’s 400m final in Paris this evening, crossing the line in 43.54 seconds. South Africa’s Zakithi Nene settled for second in 43.89, while USA’s Chris Bailey came third in 44.06

[Spectra @lospectra_]

21 years old 41 years old

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

YouTuber Yes Theory tracked down a man who has lived isolated from the modern world deep in the Amazon for more than 39 years and got the rare opportunity to interview him about his life 😳👀🔥

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: UK PRIME MINISTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS

[Autosport @autosport]

Sending our best wishes to Jeremy Clarkson after the former Top Gear host revealed he is battling an aggressive form of cancer 🙏

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

World's Most Valuable Companies—

1. Nvidia ($5.07T)
• Revenue - $215.9 billion
• Net Income - $120.1 billion

2. Alphabet ($4.55T)
• Revenue - $402.8 billion
• Net Income - $132.2 billion

3. Apple ($4.38T)
• Revenue - $416.2 billion
• Net Income - $112.0 billion

4. Microsoft ($2.92T)
• Revenue - $281.7 billion
• Net Income - $101.8 billion

5. SpaceX ($2.78T)
• Revenue - $18.7 billion
• Net Loss - $4.9 billion

Note: most recent annual figures (Macrotrends)

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Diamond prices hit century low

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

Jack Sparrow really survived every kind of villain.

[Peché Africa 🇿🇦 @pmcafrica]

MySol MySol MySol ...My Sol

[ESPN @espn]

Through every heartbreak. Through every season.

This one’s for the Day Ones 💙🧡

[Google Earth @googleearth]

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. https://t.co/hQP0No142P

We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...

Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Finance, Sales, Marketing, IT

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Elon Musk to become world’s first trillionaire

[Tristan Tate @TateTheTalisman]

Two future billionaires looking at the third.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

Two days ago, something happened that most of the world still doesn't know about.

A human being received the first therapy in history designed to reverse cellular aging inside their body. Not slow it down. Not manage the symptoms. Actually reset the biological clock at the cellular level.

@lifebiosciences — co-founded by Harvard geneticist @davidasinclair — announced on June 9 that the first patient was dosed in their Phase 1 clinical trial of ER-100.

Let me explain what this actually is, because the implications extend far beyond the eye they're treating.
Your DNA is mostly intact throughout your life. Think of it as hardware. What degrades is the epigenome — the layer of chemical instructions that tells your genes what to do and when. Over decades, those instructions get corrupted. Genes that should be active go silent. Genes that should be silent activate. Cells lose their identity and function. We call this aging.

ER-100 uses three transcription factors — OCT4, SOX2, and KLF4 — to perform a partial epigenetic reset. These are the same factors that can reprogram any adult cell back into a stem cell. But they're not going that far. They're doing just enough to make damaged cells function like younger versions of themselves — without losing their identity.

The delivery is elegant. A one-time injection into the eye. An oral pill acts as an on/off switch — doctors control exactly how long the reprogramming lasts. If anything goes wrong, they turn it off.

This didn't come from nowhere.

In 2020, Sinclair's team restored vision in old mice and mice with glaucoma using this approach. The paper made the cover of Nature. They moved to monkeys with optic nerve damage — and successfully restored function with no major safety issues. Now, two days ago: the first human.

The trial is targeting glaucoma and NAION — a sudden "stroke of the eye" that causes devastating vision loss. Current treatments for both can only slow progression. Nothing reverses the damage. This therapy aims to regenerate damaged optic nerve cells by making them young again.

As a cardiologist, here's why this keeps me up at night — in the best possible way.

The eye is a safe, measurable starting point. But the platform technology isn't limited to the eye. If partial epigenetic reprogramming works safely in optic nerve cells, the same approach could theoretically be adapted for the brain, the spinal cord, the heart, the liver, the kidneys — any organ where cells lose function with age.

We're not testing whether we can treat one disease. We're testing whether we can treat aging itself as a reversible biological process.

For my entire career, cardiology has been magnificent at managing the downstream consequences of aging: high blood pressure, plaque buildup, heart failure, arrhythmias, stiffened arteries. We prescribe statins, antihypertensives, anticoagulants, and devices to manage what time does to the cardiovascular system. We're getting better every year.

But what if the cells themselves could be reset? What if the cardiac muscle cells that lose contractile function with age could be epigenetically restored? What if the endothelial cells lining sixty thousand miles of blood vessels could be made to behave like they did decades earlier?

That's not in a trial yet. But the foundational technology just entered a human body for the first time. And the companies racing in this space — Life Biosciences, Altos Labs, NewLimit — are backed by billions of dollars and some of the best scientists alive.

Essential caveats — because I'm a physician, not a hype man.

This is Phase 1. Roughly 18 patients. The primary goal is safety: does this cause harm? Is it tolerable? Efficacy data will come later. Many promising therapies have failed in the gap between animal models and human reality. Gene therapy carries risks — immune reactions, off-target effects, unintended cellular behavior. The oral on/off switch is a critical safety feature, but this is still the earliest possible stage of testing.

No one is reversing aging tomorrow. No one is living to 200 next year.

But a line was crossed two days ago that cannot be uncrossed.

For the first time in human history, someone received a therapy specifically designed to make damaged cells young again inside a living person. From impossible in theory to proven in mice to tested in monkeys to injected into a human being — in six years.

I've spent twenty years treating the consequences of aging. I've held hearts that were failing because time had degraded the cells beyond recovery. I've watched patients lose vision, cognition, mobility, and independence — and told them there was nothing I could do to reverse what time had taken.

This week, the conversation began to change.

Gene editing to permanently lower cholesterol. Personalized mRNA vaccines to hunt cancer. GLP-1 drugs rewiring metabolism, reducing depression, and cutting cancer metastasis. And now — partial cellular reprogramming to reverse aging at the epigenetic level.
I said months ago on this platform that our children may live past 100 — not frail, but strong and vibrant.

The evidence keeps building that this isn't optimism.
It's a timeline.

[Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉) @m_goes_distance]

you have no idea how much better it is getting

just this week:

- a child was successfully implanted after embryo screening for IQ in the 99.99th percentile. the default human is already being upgraded
- the first ever reverse-aging drug was injected into a human. Life Biosciences by @davidasinclair , so it begins
- Sinclair also announced plans to test an oral reprogramming pill in the $101M XPRIZE. whole-body rejuvenation. a pill you swallow
- Retro Biosciences raised new funding at a $1.8B valuation
- @newlimit announced its first medicines headed to the clinic. Brian Armstrong's $3.1B longevity bet is moving from lab to human
- Junevity published PNAS research validating transcription factor modulation can reverse cellular aging. first-in-human trials starting H2 2026
- retatrutide phase 3 confirmed 70 pounds lost on average. no plateau. bariatric surgery territory from a weekly injection

this is just week one of June 2026

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[OLAYIMIKA 🖤 @Fhigo_]

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