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Jan 30, 2024

Regenerative nanochip restores ANY tissue with 98% success and clinical trials start next year

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, engineering, life extension, nanotechnology, neuroscience

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Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient’s own body. This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or restore function of aging tissue, including organs, blood vessels and nerve cells.

“By using our novel nanochip technology, injured or compromised organs can be replaced. We have shown that skin is a fertile land where we can grow the elements of any organ that is declining,” said Dr. Chandan Sen, director of Ohio State’s Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Based Therapies, who co-led the study with L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering with Ohio State’s College of Engineering in collaboration with Ohio State’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center.

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Jan 29, 2024

Quantifying Inflammation in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, mathematics, neuroscience

“Smartly incorporating ChatGPT into education could actually benefit students and teachers.” Big Think.


Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.

Jan 29, 2024

Neuralink Announces First Brain Chip Implant in Humans

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has successfully implanted its brain-computer interface in a human.

Jan 29, 2024

Signs of ‘transmissible’ Alzheimer’s seen in people who received growth hormone

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Evidence that amyloid-beta particles are infectious and cause dementia in rare cases involving people who got growth hormone from cadavers.

Aβ is described as “prion like”…a seed can lead to more Aβ


The findings support a controversial hypothesis that proteins related to the neurodegenerative disease can be ‘seeded’ in the brain through material taken from cadavers.

Jan 29, 2024

How Older Brains Perceive Color Differently

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Findings show that older people’s pupils constricted less in response to color chroma, particularly for green and magenta hues, suggesting a decline in color sensitivity with age.

Jan 29, 2024

How does chronic stress harm the gut? New clues emerge

Posted by in categories: chemistry, neuroscience

Signals originating in the brain make their way to gut nerve cells, leading to a release of inflammatory chemicals.

Mental stress has long been linked to flare-ups of gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).


A bacterium in the intestines of stressed mice interferes with cells that protect against pathogens.

Jan 29, 2024

SARS-CoV-2 can Infect Dopamine Neurons causing Senescence

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, health, neuroscience

A new study reported that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, can infect dopamine neurons in the brain and trigger senescence—when a cell loses the ability to grow and divide. The researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggest that further research on this finding may shed light on the neurological symptoms associated with long COVID, such as brain fog, lethargy, and depression.

The findings, published in Cell Stem Cell on Jan. 17, show that dopamine neurons infected with SARS-CoV-2 stop working and send out chemical signals that cause inflammation. Normally, these neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in feelings of pleasure, motivation, memory, sleep, and movement. Damage to these neurons is also connected to Parkinson’s disease.

“This project started out to investigate how various types of cells in different organs respond to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We tested lung cells, heart cells, pancreatic beta cells, but the senescence pathway is only activated in dopamine neurons,” said senior author Dr. Shuibing Chen, director of the Center for Genomic Health, the Kilts Family Professor Surgery and a member of the Hartman Institute for Therapeutic Organ Regeneration at Weill Cornell Medicine. “This was a completely unexpected result.”

Jan 29, 2024

70 years of MKUltra, the CIA ‘mind-control’ program that inspired ‘Stranger Things’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, government, life extension, neuroscience

MKUltra is not referenced explicitly on Stranger Things — the popular Netflix show — but the series seems to be inspired by the controversial CIA program. In the show, a government laboratory is conducting illegal experiments on a young girl and other persons, torturing them, and harnessing their special abilities for their own purposes. This is similar to the goals of the CIA human experimentation project, which was started 70 years ago.

Controversial and unethical experiments were conducted on human subjects by the Agency for the MKUltra project, including the use of mind control techniques and the administration of drugs such as LSD and other chemicals. Electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture were also part of the non-consensual experiments, which were created because the CIA was convinced that communists had discovered a way to control human minds. Its activities — which were hidden and classified before their files being destroyed after an investigation — remain a subject of concern and investigation to this day.

MKUltra was a CIA program involving the research and development of chemical and biological agents. According to official documents, it was “concerned with the research and development of chemical, biological and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.”

Jan 28, 2024

Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach: Collective Intelligence

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Michael Levin and Joscha Bach discuss cognitive science and mind in the context morphogenesis. Sponsors: — Drink Trade: https://www.drinktrade.com/everything

Jan 28, 2024

Neuroscience Says 1 Simple Habit Boosts Brain Connectivity, Learning, and Memory

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Recent neuroscience research helps explain why, when it comes to learning and remembering, writing by hand is better than typing with a keyboard.