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Inflammation is believed to be a contributing factor to metabolic and chronic diseases across a wide spectrum including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, arthritis, and more. Understanding its roots — and the role that specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) play in switching off the process — is considered a key component to improving healthspan and resilience. Dr. Charles Serhan discovered SPMs. He joins the latest episode of the STEM-Talk podcast to talk about these powerful mediators play in our own bodies. Listen today wherever you enjoy podcasts. https://lnkd.in/eSzkbUQP

This spring, IHMC partnered with California-based nonprofit research institute SRI to take aim at the psychology of cyber attackers to better defend against their efforts. It will be a fascinating effort. https://lnkd.in/e8E4UZmN

Phew. Robotics Camp in Pensacola is a wrap and it was a blast. Our thanks to Heath Parr for leading our sessions, Ursula Schwuttke for leading the effort, Gwen Bryan, Toshi Miyatsu, and Jared Li for sharing their wisdom (and their jokes) with our campers, and our incredible team for making sure check-in, lunch, and all of those details ran smoothly. Most of all, thanks to our campers for bringing your enthusiasm to camp every day. Ocala friends, you are up next! See you there!

“Resistance training is in many ways the true fountain of youth,” says IHMC's Dr. Marcas Bamman said in a newly published interview with The Associated Press. “I like to say the fountain of youth is the water cooler in the gym.” Read more here. https://lnkd.in/enjzi6qN

How did the son of two Bohemian graphic designers become a citizen science advocate who built his knowledge to turn his own health around? It’s a journey worth listening to, and in this episode of STEM-Talk, Dave Feldman shares that story. Feldman is the founder of the Citizen Science Foundation and is known for his research into the ketogenic diet. Dave is a software engineer by training who embraced a ketogenic diet to avoid his progression toward type 2 diabetes. The episode is available now wherever you listen to podcasts. https://lnkd.in/eTj8zg-5

The new $40 million biomedically-based research complex constructed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) will be more than a striking addition to the Pensacola skyline. It will be an accelerant for the pace of discovery that will drive innovations in maximizing the healthspan for everyone from elite military operators and veterans to those with neurodegenerative diseases, musculoskeletal problems, and chronic metabolic conditions. The Healthspan, Resilience and Performance Research Complex is another step in the evolution of the vision that has been the bedrock of IHMC since its founding by Dr. Ken Ford, the Institute’s Chief Executive Officer. “Pushing the boundaries of science to maximize the performance and resilience of human beings has long been a foundational tenet at IHMC,” Ford says. “In our healthspan, resilience and performance research thrust, the vision has always been to work from the molecular level to the whole human. This facility brings that to life.” https://lnkd.in/eAGBfYxB

We officially can call the 2024 Dynamic Walking Conference a wrap! This year was the 20th annual such gathering, a premier gathering of engineers and roboticists working in the realm of robotics, and we were so proud to host everyone. We even managed to squeeze in a little Pensacola Blue Wahoos baseball — what could be better than that!

Our new healthspan, resilience, and performance research complex is looking move-in ready! The day will be here soon enough! We are grateful to our partners DAG Architects Cooper Carry Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc. for helping bring it to fruition.

Welcome back from the long weekend, friends. We just wanted to thank Dr. Stefan Pasiakos for his Pensacola Evening Lecture last week. If you couldn't be with us in person, watch our YouTube channel for the video recap of his talk. Evening Lectures return in the fall with a new slate of guests. We can't wait to see everyone then.

Recently, IHMC hosted an international group of experts tasked with innovation and experimentation in the capabilities for members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). When we say our work is changing the world, we mean it. https://lnkd.in/eCwqG-hd