Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of death and disability in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the majority of people who have heart failure or experience their first stroke or heart attack have hypertension. Even a slight increase in your blood pressure can increase your risk for a stroke or heart attack, if it is persistent. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil), indomethacin (Indocin) and piroxicam (Feldene), can increase your blood pressure whether or not you already have hypertension.
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Nov 3, 2019
How we’ll get to Mars — what’s the biggest challenge, money or technology?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, economics, habitats, health, nuclear energy, space travel
“There are a number of critical technologies that have to be assessed and tested before we go to Mars,” he told Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald.
His short-list includes reusable landers, new space suits, mining gear, water and fuel production plants and safe nuclear power sources that could be used to power habitats and equipment on the red planet.
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Nov 3, 2019
Scientists successfully create age-resistant mice with hyper-long telomeres
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have shown that it is possible to extend the life of mice, without using any gene modifying technologies. The finding is the result of a study launched some years ago that aimed to investigate mice with hyper-long telomeres.
Nov 3, 2019
Maltese among group of scientists who have discovered new therapies to combat cancer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
A Maltese scientist working with a group of researchers have found a way to re-activate the human immune system to fight cancer cells that can develop.
Dr. David Saliba is optimistic that their research will pave the way for the development of new therapies to fight cancer.
Together with a group of researchers from the University of Malta and the University of Oxford, Dr. David Saliba has for the last four years researched about how immune system cells communicate with each other, especially when it comes to combating cancer.
Nov 3, 2019
Is Treating Cancer with Odors the Future of Cancer Therapy?
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Every time you inhale through your nose, olfactory receptors in your nasal passages enable your sense of smell to function. These receptors consist of protein complexes that help you detect chemicals floating in the air.
But research now shows that those types of receptors aren’t only found along your breathing passages. They’re all over the body in a wide variety of organs, and they influence what organs like your liver and intestines are doing.
Added to that, cancer cells possess their own collection of olfactory receptors that affect how they function. And those receptors, some researchers believe, might represent one of cancer’s vulnerabilities – and a key to destroying cancers with scents.
Nov 3, 2019
New blood test could spot breast cancer five years before symptoms show
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
The method has been trialled successfully, and could be ready for use in as little as four years.
Nov 3, 2019
Epigenetic resetting of cellular age mediated
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Metabesity 2019: Epigenetic resetting of cellular age mediated by nuclear reprogramming – A new paradigm in overcoming aging and aging-associated diseases.
Featuring Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD, Assistant Professor of Stanford University; Co-Founder of Turn Biotechnologies, USA
For more information, see www.metabesity2019.com
Nov 2, 2019
Meet the pigs that could solve the human organ transplant crisis
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, food, sustainability
On a farm in Bavaria, German researchers are using gene editing to create pigs that could provide organs to save thousands of lives.
Nov 2, 2019
Rotavirus vaccine: A potential new role as an anticancer agent
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
Very interesting.
Numerous vaccines, from flu shots to those those that help thwart chickenpox and measles, are widely used to guard against contagion, but researchers in France are proposing a breakthrough role for rotavirus vaccines: deploying them in cancer treatment.
Scientists from throughout France—Paris, Lyon, Villejuif and beyond—are part of a large research team that has asked a tantalizing question: Can rotavirus vaccines be repurposed to overcome resistance in cancer immunotherapy? The team is focusing on resistance that emerges to the form of cancer treatment known as checkpoint blockade immunotherapy.
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Nov 2, 2019
Discovery may help derail Parkinson’s ‘runaway train’
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, nanotechnology
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a discovery they believe has the potential to put the brakes on the ‘runaway train’ that is Parkinson’s disease.
The team, based at the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU) in the School of Life Sciences, have discovered a new enzyme that inhibits the LRRK2 pathway. Mutations of the LRRK2 gene are the most common cause of genetic Parkinson’s.
Enzymes are molecular machines that regulate the biological processes required to maintain healthy functioning life. They can also be targeted by drugs to increase or decrease the level of certain activity –in this instance the LRRK2 pathway.