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Mar 25, 2018

Are digital drugs the future of medication?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

A drug with the potential to revolutionise medication has been approved in the US.

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Mar 23, 2018

Blockchain System Aims to Identify Health Problems Using AI

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, health, robotics/AI

According to the company, their diagnostics system has recently been tested and seemed to prove more accurate than real life doctors at spotting conditions in patients.

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Mar 23, 2018

Harvard Rewinds the Biological Clock

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Harvard reminds the biological clock using NAD+ and NaHS!


Investigators at Harvard Medical School have identified the key cellular mechanisms behind vascular aging and its effects on muscle health, and they have successfully reversed the process in animals.

Could reversing the aging of blood vessels hold the key to restoring youthful vitality? If the old adage “you are as old as your arteries” reigns true then the answer is yes, at least in mice.

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Mar 23, 2018

New innovations in cell-free biotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

A Northwestern University-led team has developed a new way to manufacture proteins outside of a cell that could have important implications in therapeutics and biomaterials.

The advance could make possible decentralized manufacturing and distribution processes for that might, in the future, promote better access to costly drugs all over the world.

The team set out to improve the quality of manufactured proteins in vitro, or outside a cell, and found success across a number of fronts.

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Mar 23, 2018

Genetic switch activates transformation of stem cells into heart muscle cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The discovery of a genetic switch that triggers stem cells to turn into heart cells is a major step in finding treatment for damaged hearts.

Researchers from A*STAR and their colleagues in India have been investigating the molecular and genetic processes by which human embryonic differentiate into the body’s many types of cells—in particular, cardiomyocytes, or .

“The effort is underway globally to find ways to differentiate these stem cells into beating functional heart muscle cells so that they can be used for cell-based therapies to treat structural abnormalities,” says Prabha Sampath, from the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology.

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Mar 23, 2018

Superbugs could outstrip cancer in disease-related deaths

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Antibiotic hunter Dr Mark Blaskovich says antibiotic resistance is growing faster than the research and has the potential to bring modern medicine to a halt.

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Mar 23, 2018

Does your kids’ DNA matter more than which school they go to?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

How well your kids do at school depends in part on the DNA you bequeathed them. What’s not clear is what we should do about this.

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Mar 23, 2018

Chip detects Legionnaires’ bacteria in minutes, not days

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

When the water in the rooftop cooling towers of a building’s air conditioning system gets infected with Legionella bacteria, people in the building can get potentially-fatal Legionnaires’ disease. Therefore, it’s important to check that water for the bacteria on a regular basis. A new chip is promised to do it faster than ever.

The typical method of checking for Legionella involves putting a water sample in a Petri dish, then waiting 10 to 14 days to see if any bacterial cultures grow. Unfortunately, populations of Legionella can reach outbreak levels is as short a period as one week. Additionally, if an outbreak has already occurred, then its source needs to be ascertained as fast as possible.

That’s why the new LegioTyper chip was created.

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Mar 23, 2018

Could heat ‘brain switch’ lead to Alzheimer’s treatment?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Research in flies shows that using temperature-sensitive proteins to control neurons could give us greater insight into how the brain works—and what’s going wrong when it doesn’t.

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Mar 23, 2018

Robots Could Replace Surgeons in the Battle Against Cancer

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

Fred Moll started a $50 billion robotics company. Now he has FDA approval for a device a doctor sends into the lungs to detect cancer. His ultimate goal: Get rid of the doctor.

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