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Jan 10, 2016
The health risks of spending a year in outer space
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, business, health, materials, nanotechnology, space
As we explore opportunities in space to colonized or even expand business opportunities in space such as mining, and discovering materials that could be brought back to earth to use; it will be important for scientists and researchers to look at ways in how technologies like CRISPR, nanobots, synthetic implants, etc. can assist in mitigating the impacts on humans in space.
A new report commissioned by NASA highlights many of the risks connected with one of the agency’s major goals: putting more humans in space for longer periods of time.
Jan 10, 2016
Major Mouse Testing To Fast Track Regenerative Medicine
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
The MMTP is testing Senolytics in an ambitious large scale mouse longevity project.
The goal of regenerative medicine is both quantity and quality whilst traditional medicine has provided quantity often at the cost of quality. Regenerative medicine proposes to reduce the frailty and decline of old age by rejuvenating the body and promoting healthy longevity. With advances in technology, research and our understanding of the aging process, this is now becoming a realistic proposition.
Some drugs already tested have been found to increase mouse lifespan such as Metformin 1,2 and Rapamycin 3.These drugs are even now moving into human clinical trials to see if the above benefits translate into people. However, there are many more promising substances that have never been properly tested and we do not know if they could extend healthy lifespan.
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Jan 9, 2016
5 Biotech Predictions for 2016
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Truly a potential bummer for Car-T as a result of the risk in creating immune defiancy disease such as CRS.
A win and loss for marijuana, a big advance in Alzheimer’s disease, and the next big thing are among some of the market-moving things I expect to see happen this year.
Jan 9, 2016
Carl Zimmer explains the CRISPR DNA editing system in 90 seconds
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, business
Carl Zimmer, a science journalist, explains how the revolutionary new genome-editing tool CRISPR works.
Zimmer is a columnist for The New York Times and the author of “A Planet of Viruses.”
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Jan 8, 2016
Scientists Discover New Class of Sound Wave, Could Let Us Inhale Vaccines
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
A new class of sound wave has been developed for the first time in 50 years that could revolutionize the use of stem cells in medical treatments.
This new class can be used as a “supervaccine” that can deliver vaccines and other medicines directly to the lungs in record time.
Jan 8, 2016
The historical assumption has been that, human aging is a natural process, and one that is non optional with regard to medical interventions
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Dr Millers paper here hits the nail on the head for me about aging research and how we can speed it up.
“The time spent by gerontologists debating whether aging is a single process or many would be better devoted to trying to figure out the mechanistic links between the master clock whose existence is strongly suggested by the unitarian argument and the many cell-specific, organ-specific, and organism-wide processes that march in crude synchrony at species-specific rates.”
Yes! This is exactly the attitude to take. Too much debate and argument instead of buckling down and getting the research done to prove or disprove aging hypotheses. Cut to the chase and lets just do it.
Jan 8, 2016
Apple Acquires a Startup That Can Tell Human Emotions From Facial Expressions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Analyzing expressions is an increasingly hot topic among tech companies.
It’s not clear what it plans to do with it yet, but Apple has gobbled up a startup whose technology can read facial expressions.
The tech giant has reportedly acquired Emotient, a San Diego-based company that uses artificial technology to detect emotion from facial expressions, Apple confirmed to The Wall Street Journal. The company’s technology has primarily been used by advertisers, doctors, and retailers, though it’s not clear what Apple AAPL 0.66% plans to do with it.
Jan 8, 2016
Researchers ride new sound wave to health discovery
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, health
Yelling at stem cells.
Acoustics experts have created a new class of sound wave — the first in more than half a century — in a breakthrough they hope could lead to a revolution in stem cell therapy.
The team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, combined two different types of acoustic sound waves called bulk waves and surface waves to create a new hybrid: “surface reflected bulk waves”.
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Jan 7, 2016
Meet the Man With a Thought-Controlled Robotic Arm
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, physics, robotics/AI
Johnny Matheny is the first person to attach a mind-controlled prosthetic limb directly to his skeleton. After losing his arm to cancer in 2008, Johnny signed up for a number of experimental surgeries to prepare himself to use a DARPA-funded prosthetic prototype. The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, allows Johnny to regain almost complete range of motion through the Bluetooth-controlled arm. (Video by Drew Beebe, Brandon Lisy) (Source: Bloomberg)
