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Keith Barlow launched Xenom, the "Decathlon of Fitness", in February 2026. Less than eight months later, it is licensed by CrossFit and Hyrox's founders have invested in it. One newcomer,…

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Aug 2026

HEALTH Vanguard

The longevity network that started in a pub, not a lab

Mo Elzek does not think that, in the coming years, you will be able to pop a magic pill and decide what age you want to be. He does, however,…

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May 2026

TECH Vanguard

Owkin’s Andrea Tassistro on K Pro and the AI drug discovery bottleneck

The AI-drug-discovery sector in 2026 has split into two camps. One camp wants to design new molecules from first principles. The other wants to make existing pharma R&D faster, cheaper…

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May 2026

HEALTH Vanguard

Inside the Enhanced Games training camp: what happens when you optimise everything at once

Several weeks out from the inaugural Enhanced Games, in a five-star longevity resort on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, fifty elite athletes are doing something almost no professional in their…

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Apr 2026

BUSINESS Vanguard

Rick Adams: the Olympic insider leading the Enhanced Games

If you had to design the person you'd want on your side if you were an athlete about to walk into the most scrutinised sporting arenas of the modern era,…

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Apr 2026

HEALTH Vanguard

Life Biosciences Raises $80m To Advance Cell Reset Therapy

Life Biosciences has raised $80 million in a Series D round to fund the clinical development of its lead therapy, ER-100, and expand its broader platform targeting the biology of…

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Apr 2026

BUSINESS Vanguard

The Enhanced Games Are Here. Sport Will Never Be the Same.

Five and a half weeks out from the inaugural Enhanced Games, world records are already being broken. Earlier this month Chilean weightlifter Arley Méndez Pérez snatched 182kg in training at…

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Apr 2026

MIND Vanguard

The race to copy your brain before AI replaces you

Christian Larsen does not hedge when the conversation turns to AI. If a superintelligent AI “species” emerges, one that is faster, more capable and operating at a fundamentally different level…

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Mar 2026

TRAINING Vanguard

What is Xenom, and why it could reshape fitness competition

Xenom has raised $15 million and calls itself the “decathlon of fitness”. That’s the headline but it’s not the most interesting thing about the latest addition to the competitive fitness…

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Mar 2026

BUSINESS Vanguard

Meet the man building the “CES of longevity”

For eight years, Phil Newman has watched the longevity megatrend gather momentum. As founder and CEO of First Longevity and Editor-in-Chief of Longevity Technology, he has had a front row…

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Keith Barlow on raising $15m for Xenom and Hyrox’s backing

The longevity network that started in a pub, not a lab

Owkin’s Andrea Tassistro on K Pro and the AI drug discovery bottleneck

Inside the Enhanced Games training camp: what happens when you optimise everything at once

Rick Adams: the Olympic insider leading the Enhanced Games

Life Biosciences Raises $80m To Advance Cell Reset Therapy

The Enhanced Games Are Here. Sport Will Never Be the Same.

The race to copy your brain before AI replaces you

What is Xenom, and why it could reshape fitness competition

Meet the man building the “CES of longevity”

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