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Jan 21, 2020

The FDA Just Expanded Access to MDMA as a Therapy for PTSD

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Under the FDA’s Expanded Access program, more folks can legally get access to medical-grade MDMA for psychotherapy.

Jan 21, 2020

Killer T-Cell Discovery Could Mean ‘Universal’ Cancer Treatment

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A new type of killer T-cell could serve as “one-size-fits-all” cancer therapy.

Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales discovered a different kind of T-cell receptor (TCR)—one that recognizes and kills most human cancer cells while ignoring healthy ones.

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Jan 21, 2020

Record-breaking terahertz laser beam

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security

Terahertz radiation is used for security checks at airports, for medical examinations and also for quality checks in industry. However, radiation in the terahertz range is extremely difficult to generate. Scientists at TU Wien have now succeeded in developing a terahertz radiation source that breaks several records: it is extremely efficient, and its spectrum is very broad—it generates different wavelengths from the entire terahertz range. This opens up the possibility of creating short radiation pulses with extremely high radiation intensity. The new terahertz technology has now been presented in the journal Nature Communications.

The “Terahertz Gap” Between Lasers and Antennas

“Terahertz has very useful properties,” says Claudia Gollner from the Institute of Photonics at TU Wien. “It can easily penetrate many materials, but unlike X-rays, it is harmless because it is not ionizing radiation.”

Jan 21, 2020

Experts Were Wrong: Chinese Virus Is Spreading Between Humans

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This means it will significantly harder to contain.

Jan 21, 2020

First U.S. case of potentially deadly Chinese coronavirus confirmed in Washington state

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

The man, in his 30s, is in stable condition at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash. Officials said they are monitoring him there out of an abundance of caution, not because he is seriously ill. The man arrived in the United States last week, before federal health officials began screening travelers from the central Chinese city of Wuhan at Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York’s John F. Kennedy international airports, the first such effort since the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

Jan 21, 2020

Flu vaccine reduces tumor growth (in mice) according to a new study

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Read more.

Jan 21, 2020

Discovery of new T-cell raises prospect of ‘universal’ cancer therapy

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https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/1749599-discovery-of-new…r-therapy.


Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a new type of killer T-cell that offers hope of a “one-size-fits-all” cancer therapy.

T-cell therapies for cancer — where immune cells are removed, modified and returned to the patient’s blood to seek and destroy cancer cells — are the latest paradigm in cancer treatments.

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Jan 21, 2020

AgeX Therapeutics anticipates a ‘revolution’ in aging in next 10 years

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGAane9QVc

AgeX Therapeutics Inc (NYSEAMERICAN: AGE) CEO Michael West sat down with Proactive’s Christine Corrado at the Biotech Showcase 2020 in San Francisco. The Alameda, California biotechnology company is developing a cell therapy treatment for metabolic disorders such as Type 2 diabetes.

Jan 20, 2020

CRISPR-edited chickens made resistant to a common virus

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

CRISPR gene editing has created chickens that resist a common virus. It may be possible to use the same technique to make poultry resistant to bird flu too.

Jan 20, 2020

Could Scientists ‘Hack’ the Zika Virus to Kill Brain Cancer?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, neuroscience

Could Zika be used as a cancer treatment?