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Nov 23, 2019

Protect Brain Function with Sage Extract

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A sage extract has been clinically shown to increase memory performance in older adults by 60%. Measures of attention improved 2.5-fold within hours of ingestion.

By Michael Downey

Nov 23, 2019

Cancer, Iron & HIF — The Vitamin C Connection (Part 2)

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Cancer cells love iron and HIF1a. Ferrous heme is life supporting while ferric heme is cytotoxic. Vit C is the protector and modulator of iron metabolism.

Nov 23, 2019

Starving cancer away | Sophia Lunt | TEDxMSU

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Just like our healthy cells, malignant cancer cells need energy to survive. Dr. Sophia Lunt explains how she intends to cut off cancer cells’ survival potential, and pioneer a new way of halting their growth.

Dr. Sophia Lunt began her training in metabolism at Princeton University, where she received her Ph.D. studying the metabolic consequences of the antibiotic drug trimethoprim. As a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, she focused on cancer metabolism, and was awarded the CDMRP PRCRP Visionary Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Department of Defense to support her research. She currently runs a research lab focused on cancer metabolism at Michigan State University.

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Nov 23, 2019

A Crispr Milestone Hints at a Future of Cures — and Oversight Concerns

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics

Just seven years after scientists announced the first use of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing technology on human cells, researchers shared new evidence this week that Crispr can be used to cure two serious genetic disorders.

On Tuesday, NPR reported that a patient in Nashville had seen a dramatic decline in her symptoms of sickle cell disease after receiving a single gene therapy treatment in July. Sickle cell, which can lead to inflammation, debilitating pain, and life-threatening circulatory problems, affects millions of people around the world.

That same day, the biotech companies behind the sickle-cell treatment, Crispr Therapeutics and Vertex, also shared promising results from their first attempt to cure a case of beta thalassemia, another genetic disorder that affects blood proteins. Nine months after receiving the experimental treatment, a patient in Germany with beta thalassemia has almost no signs of the disorder.

Nov 22, 2019

Cancer the Forbidden Cures Full Documentary

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSU54Uv6qSA&feature=share

Cancer is a growing worldwide epidemic, with staggering statistics: 20,000 people dying of cancer every day; 1 person out of 3 will be faced with cancer at one point in their life; and 1 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year.

Nov 22, 2019

AI Is Learning Quantum Mechanics to Design New Molecules

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics, robotics/AI

If it works, it could help doctors create new pharmaceuticals from scratch.

Nov 22, 2019

Integrating Science And Religion To Uncover New Ideas And Truths

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, quantum physics, science

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sister Ilia Delio PhD. OSF, a Franciscan Sister (Order of St Francis of Washington, DC) who holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University.

Ira Pastor Comments:

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Nov 22, 2019

Some European doctors think Chinese medicine should come with a health warning

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Herbs to increase breast milk supply and heal the spleen. Traditional remedies which promise to cure insomnia and acne. Secret cancer treatments that have been ignored or suppressed by Western medicine.

Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have a long history of making outsized claims, not least in the case of fertility and virility, where demand for tiger penis and rhino horn has devastated wild populations.

Quackery and false claims exist in all branches of medicine, but doctors in Europe are concerned that unverified claims made under the guise of TCM are being spread worldwide by social media, inadvertently aided by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Nov 22, 2019

Chinese scientists programme stem cells to ‘fight and destroy’ cancer

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Team from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health say technique was successful in treatment of mice.

Nov 22, 2019

Promising new antibiotic discovered in worm gut microbiome

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We’re currently in dire need of new weapons against infectious bacteria, especially those in a tough-to-kill class known as gram-negative bacteria. Now, researchers at Northeastern University have discovered just that, hiding in the gut of a tiny, soil-dwelling, parasitic worm. Tests on mice have so far proved promising.

For decades we’ve had the upper hand over bacteria, clearing out many infections fairly easily with antibiotics. But extensive use has led to an arms race between us and bacteria. As they evolve resistance to our best drugs, we develop new ones and use those until the bugs become resistant to those too.

But this cycle is starting to break down, and not in our favor. Developing new drugs is time and cost-intensive process, and bacteria are evolving resistances faster than we can keep up. There are now “superbugs” that are resistant to all known drugs. The situation is getting so bad that a recent report warned that superbugs could kill up to 10 million people a year by 2050, casting us back into the “dark ages of medicine.”