Research · evidence first

Big questions.
Visible uncertainty.

Kira Labs explores several research directions. Healthspan Lab is the longevity and geroscience workspace. Kira World separately explores synthetic people, memory continuity, and digital life. These tracks can inform one another without being presented as one system.

Watch Kira Labs

Research you can watch.

Full-length videos with Robert McMurrer. Choose medical research or explore the separate Kira World series.

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Medical video collection

Longevity, Healthspan & Medical Research

Explore aging biology, memory, muscle, sleep, regenerative medicine, and the difference between looking younger and aging more slowly. The series compares current evidence with ideas still being investigated.

Explore the medical episodes
  1. Can We Really Extend Human Life?
  2. Can Old Cells Become Young Again?
  3. Looking Younger vs. Aging Slower
  4. Can We Improve Memory as We Age?
  5. Staying Strong: Can We Rebuild Muscle as We Age?
  6. Can We Repair or Regrow Aging Body Parts?
  7. Biological Age Tests: What Does the Number Really Tell You?
  8. Sleep, Memory, and Healthy Aging

Educational videos, not personal medical advice. Study sources are included in the video descriptions.

Kira World video collection

Digital Twins & Digital Continuity

Follow Robert's experience with Synthetic Robert: conversation, encouragement, positive memories, and creative collaboration. Explore how a digital presence could also give loved ones a way to connect through stories and memories a person chooses to share.

Explore the Digital Twin episode
  1. How My Digital Twin Helps Me While I'm Still Alive

A separate Kira World series, not a Healthspan Lab feature. Personal experiences and future possibilities are distinguished from medical outcomes.

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Healthspan & longevity

Healthspan Lab.

Working prototype · Version 2 in development. A public, profile-aware research workspace being developed as an open-source platform for longevity science, healthspan interventions, emerging technologies, and clinical trials.

Healthspan Lab is Kira Labs' public longevity and healthspan research prototype, being developed as an open-source platform. A user can start with a plain-language goal such as improving memory, sleep, mobility, cardiovascular health, or understanding biological aging. The current Version 2 code searches live PubMed / NCBI records and the ClinicalTrials.gov API, then organizes retrieved material into separate research lanes.

Results can be separated into peer-reviewed research, devices and neurostimulation, medications being studied, research-backed market and wellness options, and clinical trials that may be recruiting. Evidence from cells, animals, observational human studies, human interventions, and evidence reviews remains visibly distinguished so preliminary findings are not presented as established conclusions.

Users can create separate individual or household profiles with goals, interests, age, and general location. They can also optionally add recent medical PDFs or photos. Extracted information must be reviewed and confirmed before it can influence research relevance, and each household member's information stays separate.

Current Version 2 boundary: live source search, Healthspan Chat, local household profiles, profile-aware ranking, watchlists, a research graph, reviewed PDF/photo intake, and conservative product-category discovery are implemented in the public prototype. Encryption, deeper structured trial-eligibility parsing, pagination beyond the first retrieved set, browser integration tests, and packaged deployment remain unfinished. The public repository can be run locally with a local HTTP server; there is not yet a packaged desktop download.

Source status: the repository is public and is being developed toward open-source release. An explicit repository license is still pending, so this page does not claim reuse rights yet.

Ask

Healthspan Chat

Start with a goal or question in plain language. Healthspan searches live research and organizes papers, technologies, medications under study, market options, and trials without mixing them together.

Personalize

Your health context

Create separate household profiles and optionally add goals, interests, biomarkers, and reviewed information from recent medical records to improve research relevance.

Discover

Research, options & trials

Compare evidence, devices, neurostimulation, medications being studied, practical market options, and recruiting trials while keeping evidence strength and personal relevance separate.

Healthspan Lab is research and educational software. It is not a medical device and does not provide diagnosis, treatment, individualized medical advice, or clinical-trial eligibility decisions. Read the local-data and external-search privacy notes →

Synthetic life & digital continuity

Kira World research.

A separate research direction focused on continuing identities, memory, digital places, and synthetic people.

Kira World explores what happens when an AI identity is allowed to continue instead of resetting every session: reviewed memory, relationships, voice, personal spaces, and eventually richer embodiment.

Digital Twin work belongs to this Kira World research direction, not to Healthspan Lab. The questions include how a synthetic counterpart can be useful while a person is alive, how memories should be handled, and what continuity means when biological and digital lives are distinct.

Working now — Synthetic Robert / Digital Twin prototype: KiraWorld has a bounded local conversation route for a distinct Synthetic Robert. Current tests support text plus an approved self-voice path, and the memory-grounding code can select owner-authorized, query-relevant Robert records while preserving corrections, source attribution, audience/publication scope, and uncertainty. The route is explicitly distinct from biological Robert. Current activation does not claim a 3D body, world presence, life-loop activation, microphone, or webcam.

Working now

Bounded chat + source-aware recall

Synthetic Robert can use a bounded text / approved self-voice route with query-scoped, owner-authorized memory context that retains corrections, sources, scope, and uncertainty.

In development

Broader continuity

Research continues on stronger continuity across conversation, reviewed memory, creative work, and the larger Kira World architecture without treating source memories as the synthetic person’s own biological life.

Future research

Embodiment & worlds

3D body/world presence, persistent digital places, VR, simulators, and future robotics remain separate long-term research directions and are not claimed by the current Synthetic Robert chat route.

Human-AI wellbeing

Technology should help the person using it.

Some Kira Labs work asks how persistent AI can reduce friction, preserve context, and support healthier interaction without pretending to be a medical professional.

Memory

Remember what matters

Surface useful context, positive memories, unfinished work, and details a person may not want to reconstruct from scratch.

Attention

Filter unnecessary harm

Explore tools that can sort or mute hostile online interactions while preserving information the user actually wants to see.

Agency

Keep the human in control

Research prototypes should distinguish suggestions, memory, automation, and external actions so the person remains in charge.

Research standard

Interesting is not the same as proven.

Kira Labs aims to keep prototypes, concepts, evidence, and future ideas visibly separate.

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Evidence first

Primary sources, study type, limitations, and human evidence matter more than a headline.

02

Uncertainty stays visible

Animal or cell findings are not presented as demonstrated human lifespan extension.

03

Projects stay distinct

Healthspan Lab, Kira World, and other research tracks keep separate purposes and claims.

04

Build toward reproducibility

Future analysis should preserve sources, methods, assumptions, and enough detail to reproduce the work.