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Big Ideas

Breakthrough Biohacks

What are the next buzzword ingredients and treatments linked to longevity lifestyles? We highlight the pathways and biohacks maximising longevity a...

Health : Wellness : Longevity

Big Ideas

Future Five 2025: Longevity

With global spending on wellness spiralling upwards, we spotlight the need to eradicate the historic gender health gap while addressing trends such...

Health : Wellness : Science

News

The Liminal Space launches fictional Cell Yourself healthcare product

Creative agency The Liminal Space has introduced Cell Yourself, a public engagement project designed to demystify stem cell science and open a conv...

Health : Fertility : Science

News

Alife Health and Inception Fertility partner to enhance IVF success with AI

Alife Health, an AI-driven healthcare firm, has announced a strategic partnership with Inception Fertility, North America’s largest fertility servi...

Health : Science : Technology

Macro Trends

The Synthocene Era: Merging Human and Machine Intelligence

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Society

Viewpoints

Longevity Skincare

Fjör founder Natalie Enslöw and scientific lead Mats Clarsund tell LS:N Global about Fjör, a medi-beauty line inspired by wound healing science and...

Beauty : Skincare : Fjör

News

Stat: Edelman Trust Barometer 2024 reveals trust paradox amid rapid innovation

The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, a survey of 32,000 respondents across 28 countries conducted in November 2023, has highlighted a perplexing socie...

Trust : Finance : Brands

News

The Trend: Longevity Lifestyles

In June, we released our annual macrotrend report on beauty, health and wellness, delving into the evolving notion of longevity – embracing the ide...

Beauty : Health : Wellness

Macro Trends

Longevity Lifestyles

The health, beauty and wellbeing sectors are embracing longevity as consumers awaken to the possibility of living not only longer, but healthier li...

Health : Wellness : Beauty

Viewpoints

Longevity Comes of Age

Longevity has entered its accredited era and its pioneer Aubrey de Grey envisions a future where the survival of ageing populations will depend on ...

Longevity : Health : Wellness

News

Plastic-eating microbes in the Arctic could be a recycling breakthrough

A study published in May 2023 in Frontiers in Microbiology has unveiled cold-weather microbes in the Arctic and the Alps that can break down certai...

Sustainability : Design : Technology

Viewpoints

The Neuroaesthetic Age

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross argue in Your Brain on Art that the science behind art can help us to reinvigorate the spaces around us with new kinds ...

Design : Health & Wellness : Art

Micro Trends

Clean Medicine

We’ve seen the rise of concepts including ‘clean food’ and ‘clean beauty’, but now comes a new class of clean. Say hello to ‘clean medicine’.

Health : Wellness : Medicine

Micro Trends

Next-Gen R&D Labs

A new generation of R&D labs are emerging to meet consumers’ expectations on product quality and efficacy, while supporting underserved communities.

Beauty : Manufacturing : Science

News

LYMA launches duo of new products to turbocharge its at-home laser

Wellness and technology company LYMA has launched Oxygen Mist and Oxygen Glide to accompany its pioneering at-home laser device.

Beauty : Health And Wellness : Technology

News

The Trend: Accredited Beauty

Our beauty, health & wellness macrotrend in 2022 explores how scientific evidence is driving the healthification of the beauty industry.

Beauty : Wellness : Health

News

Industry leaders highlight key opportunities for wellness business

From industry veterans to early adopters, there is a place for everyone at the Global Wellness Summit. This year, the event held over 70 keynotes, ...

Health : Wellness : Technology

Viewpoints

Biotech can Drive Beauty beyond Plant-based Ingredient-sourcing

Jasmina Aganovic, CEO of Arcaea, explains how biotechnology can help source and develop more ethical and intelligent ingredients.

Beauty : Science : Technology

News

The building blocks of life are now freely available online

A year on from the initial open-source launch of AlphaFold, DeepMind’s AI system to predict the 3D structure of proteins, the company is releas...

Media & Entertainment : Technology : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

Chameleon Cosmetics

As our digital identities shape-shift, so too will our beauty regimes, as innovators invent cutting-edge formulas that react to temperature, light ...

Beauty : Identity : Make-up

Viewpoints

How Fungi will Colour the Future of Cosmetics

Fungi has the potential to transform cosmetics and skincare, from bio-positive pigments to functional UV-blocking properties.

Beauty : Sustainability : Material Futures

Macro Trends

Accredited Beauty

As consumers seek proof points on product quality, efficacy and sustainability, scientific evidence will drive the healthification of the beauty in...

Beauty : Health : Wellness

News

A quality mark for kinder-to-skin products

Kind to Biome is a new quality mark and test that ensures skincare products and ingredients are gentle on the microbiome as a baseline standard.

Beauty : Health And Wellness : Skincare

Micro Trends

Re-engineering Indulgence

Treat foods are being redeveloped – and redefined – by biotech brands who are using science to create better foods without foregoing flavour and pl...

Food : Drink : Technology