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Oct 14, 2016
Scientists have created a drug that replicates the health benefits of exercise
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, health
Researchers have made the breakthrough of couch potatoes’ dreams with a new drug that mimics some of the most important effects of exercise. Scientists from Deakin University in Melbourne published their findings in Cell Reports earlier this week, showing that overweight mice who were given the drug no longer showed signs of cardiovascular disease.
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Oct 14, 2016
‘We’re growing brains outside of the body’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: neuroscience
Oct 14, 2016
Robots Are Beginning To Learn The Same Way As Humans
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Oct 14, 2016
A Computer That Stores Memories Like Humans Do
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, mathematics, robotics/AI
Oct 14, 2016
Physicists Propose A Way to Make Magnetic Fields That Are Stronger Than Any on Earth
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: nuclear energy, physics
In Brief:
Researchers have proposed an alternative way to generate super-strong magnetic fields that would solve the hindrances keeping us from harnessing the Faraday effect to its full use. More research and experimentation are needed to test the method.
Oct 14, 2016
Scientists propose space nation named ‘Asgardia’ and cosmic shield to protect Earth from asteroids
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: government, law, space
A space nation, independent of countries on Earth, could be founded after a team of engineers, scientists and legal experts put forward proposals for an extra-terrestrial state.
The project, which is led by Russian scientist Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, Chairman of UNESCOs Science of Space committee, aims to create an area in space which is beyond the control of individual nations.
Under current space law, government’s must authorise and supervise space programmes run from their own countries even if they are commercial.
Oct 14, 2016
Rare group of children are IMMUNE to AIDS, scientists reveal
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
A rare group of children is immune to AIDS, scientists believe.
The 170 boys and girls in South Africa are known as ‘non-progressors’.
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Oct 14, 2016
A new treatment appears to have erased HIV from a patient’s blood
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, health
The first of 50 patients to complete a trial for a new HIV treatment in the UK is showing no signs of the virus in his blood.
The initial signs are very promising, but it’s too soon to say it’s a cure just yet: the HIV may return, doctors warn, and the presence of anti-HIV drugs in the man’s body mean it’s difficult to tell whether traces of the virus are actually gone for good.
That said, the team behind the trial – run by five British universities and the UK’s National Health Service – says we could be on the brink of defeating HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) for real.
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Oct 14, 2016
Engineering a Better Body and the End of Disease
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, computing, engineering, health, mobile phones, neuroscience, policy
There are two kinds of people in Washington, DC, says entrepreneur Dean Kamen. There are the policy experts, whom he calls cynics. And there are the scientists, whom he deems optimists.
Kamen, speaking at the White House Frontiers Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, places himself in the latter camp. Unlike policy wonks and politicians who see diseases like Alzheimer’s or ALS as unstoppable scourges, Kamen points out that previously terrifying diseases were all toppled by medical innovation. The plague, polio, smallpox — all were civilization-threatening epidemics until experimental scientists discovered new ways to combat them.
If that sounds like the kind of disruption that the tech industry has unleashed across the rest of the world, that’s no accident. Kamen, the founder of DEKA, a medical R&D company, says that the same trends that have empowered our computers and phones and communication networks will soon power a revolution in health care. He says that medical innovation follows a predictable cycle. First we feel powerless before a disease. Then we seek ways of treating it. Then we attempt to cure it.
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