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Feb 15, 2023
Zantac’s Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Glaxo says the heartburn drug doesn’t cause tumors. But the company was warned by its own scientists and independent researchers about the potential danger.
Feb 15, 2023
Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Mummified Crocodiles
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Found beneath an ancient dump, the mummies shed light on ancient Egyptian mummification practices and the many lives of a necropolis.
Feb 15, 2023
“Brain-eating” amoeba beaten by old European drug
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
A decades-old drug used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) appears to have saved the life of a man infected by the “brain-eating” amoeba — and his case highlights the tremendous potential of a new type of genetic sequencing technology.
The patient: In 2021, a 54-year-old man was admitted to a Northern California hospital following a seizure. After an MRI revealed a mass in his brain, he was transferred to the UCSF Medical Center, where the mass was biopsied.
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Feb 15, 2023
How to Prevent Almost ALL Disease — The Medlife Crisis Podcast #1
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, economics, life extension, policy
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Feb 15, 2023
Invisibility cloaks are not just possible, but are becoming reality
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: materials, nanotechnology
Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality.
Feb 15, 2023
Surprise as electric fields found to cleave bond homolytically
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Study also uncovers that the reaction rate in a field increases linearly with the solvent dielectric constant.
Feb 15, 2023
Why Ground Fault Protection Matters and Which Scheme For Sensing Ground Faults To Choose
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: habitats
A ground fault normally occurs in one of two ways: by accidental contact of an energized conductor with normally grounded metal, or as a result of an insulation failure of an energized conductor. When an insulation failure occurs, the energized conductor contacts normally non-current-carrying metal, which is bonded to a part of the equipment-grounding conductor.
In a solidly grounded system, the fault current returns to the source primarily along the equipment-grounding conductors, with a small part using parallel paths such as building steel or piping.
Feb 15, 2023
Microsoft’s new ChatGPT AI starts sending ‘unhinged’ messages to people
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Feb 15, 2023
Scientists develop mouse model to study mpox virulence
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, health
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, monkeypox). They developed a mouse model of the disease and used it to demonstrate clear differences in virulence among the major genetic groups (clades) of mpox virus (MPXV).
The research, appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, was led by Bernard Moss, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the Genetic Engineering Section of NIAID’s Laboratory of Viral Diseases.
Historically, mpox, a disease resembling smallpox, was only occasionally transmitted from rodents to non-human primates or people, and was observed primarily in several African countries. Mpox rarely spread from person to person. That pattern changed in 2022 with an outbreak in which person-to-person mpox transmission occurred in more than 100 locations worldwide.