Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 2190
Nov 1, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Eat This, Not That! — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, chemistry, DNA, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience, science, transhumanism
Oct 31, 2018
Dr. Antonei Csoka at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2018 — Aging as Meta-Disease
Posted by Cathy Miller in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Good information 💜.
Dr. Antonei Csoka of Howard University discusses the concept of aging as meta-disease and about the hierarchy of some of the Hallmarks of Aging. He also discusses some of the philosophical and metaphysical underpinnings for the goal of overcoming age-related disease.
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Oct 31, 2018
Scientists Find Link Between Parkinson’s Disease and the Appendix
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Scientists have found further evidence that the gut, or more specifically the appendix, might play a role in the development of Parkinson’s disease.
The international team of scientists reviewed two datasets, including a large registry from Sweden, and found that removal of the appendix was associated with a decreased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. They also found that the human appendix contains clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein in a form associated with the disease. There’s more work to be done, and the authors are not advocating that people preemptively remove their appendixes, but they hope that the research could provide a pathway towards treatment.
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Oct 31, 2018
New spinal cord therapy helps patients walk again
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Oct 31, 2018
Neutralizing RNS May Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in category: biotech/medical
Neutralising reactive nitrogen species to make immunotherapy more effective.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame discovered that amino acid nitration can inhibit the activation of T cells employed in immunotherapy against cancer and that suppression of reactive nitrogen species (RNS) responsible for nitration can significantly boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy [1].
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Oct 31, 2018
A Potential New Path to Increasing NAD+
Posted by Steve Hill in category: biotech/medical
Oct 31, 2018
Cellular kill code discovery may help extinguish cancers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Research has discovered that inside every cell in the human body is a kill code designed to trigger self-destruction if it senses a cell is turning cancerous. Across two studies the scientists homed in on the code underlying this mechanism and believe it may lead to a new kind of cancer treatment.
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Oct 30, 2018
190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, business, computing, education, engineering, health
If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses.
In the past six years or so, over 800 universities have created more than 10,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve been keeping track of these MOOCs the entire time over at Class Central, ever since they rose to prominence.
In the past four months alone, 190 universities have announced 600 such free online courses. I’ve compiled a list of them and categorized them according to the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science.
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Oct 30, 2018
Discovery of cancer ‘kill code’ could inspire new treatments
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: biotech/medical
I have always said the trick with being diagnosed with cancer is living long enough to see newer and better therapies coming out to help you outlive your own diagnosis:
Scientists at Northwestern University have discovered a “kill code” in every cell of the body that’s triggered by chemotherapy and that causes cancerous cells to self-destruct. What’s more, they’ve learned enough about the code that they’ve figured out how to trigger it without chemo—a finding that they believe could lead to new therapies.
The discovery, reported in the journals Nature Communications and eLife, is a code that’s found in both large and small ribonucleic acids (RNAs). The researchers also have early evidence that the small RNAs, called microRNAs, can be introduced into cells to trigger the kill switch.
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