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Feb 10, 2018
Is Anti-Aging Technology Creating A Life Worth Living?
Posted by Dave Holt in categories: biotech/medical, education, life extension, philosophy
Eliminating disease is an admirable ambition but it seems it’s the lack of education, environment and lifestyle that is really holding people back and causing them to lose interest in life.
Is anti-aging technology and increasing the human mortality rates helping to create a more fulfilled, life worth living. Let’s look at this question…
Feb 10, 2018
Second Sight touts 1st-in-human Orion cortical implant
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Second Sight Medical (NSDQ: EYES) today announced the first trial implantation of its Orion cortical visual prosthesis system and updated on implantations of its Argus device and enrollment in an upcoming study.
The first implantation procedure was performed late last month by Dr. Nader Pouratian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the Sylmar, Calif.-based company said, as part of an FDA-cleared feasibility trial it won approval to launch last November.
The Orion cortical visual prosthesis system is designed to convert images captured by a miniature video camera, mounted on a patient’s glasses, into a series of electrical pulses which are transmitted wirelessly to an array of electrodes on the surface of the individual’s visual cortex.
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Feb 9, 2018
First 3D imaging of excited quantum dots
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics, solar power, sustainability
Quantum dots are rapidly taking center stage in emerging applications and research developments, from enhanced LCD TVs and thin-film solar cells, to high-speed data transfer and fluorescent labeling in biomedical applications.
Feb 9, 2018
Dentists May Soon Regenerate Teeth Using GSK3 Antagonists
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
What if I told you that we could regenerate our teeth? Well, that may soon be a possibility thanks to new research showing that teeth can be encouraged to regrow. Rather than drilling holes into teeth and plugging them with artificial fillers, dentists in the near future may be able to rebuild your teeth with a new technique.
Stimulating stem cells
Professor Paul Sharpe, a scientist based at King’s College in London, and his team have found a way to do just this in mice. They published a study last year that described this new approach[1].
Feb 9, 2018
Major Psychiatric Disorders Have More In Common Than We Thought, Study Finds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
Major psychiatric disorders like autism, schizophrenia and bipolar appear to have more in common than we thought they did. A new study finds that they have important similarities at a molecular level.
And understanding the molecular basis of major disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and bipolar is hopeful, because it could help in developing better treatments for them.
These psychiatric disorders are diagnosed by how a patient behaves. There are no clear signs on a brain “that you can see with your eyes or most microscopic techniques,” says Dan Geschwind, a professor of neurogenetics at UCLA. His team’s findings were published in Science this week.
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Feb 9, 2018
3D printable tools to study astronaut health
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, life extension, space
If humans are destined for deep space, they need to understand the space environment changes health, including aging and antibiotic resistance.
A new NASA project could help. It aims to develop technology used to study “omics”—fields of microbiology that are important to human health. Omics includes research into genomes, microbiomes and proteomes.
The Omics in Space project is being led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The project was recently funded by NASA’s Translational Research Institute for Space Health four years of study. Over that time, NASA hopes to develop 3D printable designs for instruments on the International Space Station (ISS), that can handle liquids like blood samples without spilling in microgravity. These tools could enable astronauts to analyze biological samples without sending them back to Earth.
Feb 9, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Reader’s Digest — Signs Your Body Is Aging Faster Than You Are
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biological, biotech/medical, business, chemistry, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, innovation
Feb 8, 2018
Five major psychiatric diseases have overlapping patterns of genetic activity, new study shows
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
Autism, schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and alcoholism have similar molecular signatures in the brain.