At birth, a child can inherit mutations of the mitochondria from his or her mother. Some women are genetically predisposed to pass on these mutations, giving rise to potentially fatal disorders that affect organs with high energy demand, like the heart and brain. A new gene therapy technique offers treatment for this problematic inheritance using…
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Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustees will attend The Economist conference Ageing Societies 2016 on 29-30th November in London. Biogerontology Research Foundation UK executives and trustees Dmitry Kaminskiy and Alex Zhavoronkov will attend panel discussions at the Aging Societies conference 2016, organized by The Economist, in London, United Kingdom on November 29-30th 2016. The upcoming Aging Societies…
Australian hospital opens a center for 3d biofabrication of organs
A biofabrication institute will image, model and manufacture 3D patient-specific tissues under the one roof, it was announced at Herston on Monday. Two floors at the Herston Health Precinct would be converted into a space where researchers, engineers, doctors, nurses and scientists could collaborate on how 3D tissues could improve a patient’s quality of life,…
Artificial Intelligence Will Redesign Healthcare
AI is coming, and AI in healthcare is inevitable. A good roundup of where we are and where we are heading: AI in healthcare and medicine could organize patient routes or treatment plans better, and also provide physicians with literally all the information they need to make a good decision. And do not think it…
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative commits to investing $3 billion to cure diseases
The philanthropic initiative founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will spend $3 billion over the next decade in an effort to cure and manage all human diseases. The Chan Zuckerberg’s latest effort will begin with a $600 million investment in a project called Biohub, an independent research center located at…
Microsoft will ‘solve’ cancer within 10 years by ‘reprogramming’ diseased cells
Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science to crack the code of diseased cells so they can be reprogrammed back to a healthy state. In a dramatic change of direction for the technology giant, the company has assembled a “small army” of the world’s best…
Robot operates inside eye in world first
Surgeons have used a robot to operate inside the eye and restore sight – in a world first. A team at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital used the device, controlled via a joystick, to remove a membrane one hundredth of a millimetre thick. Prof MacLaren said: “There is no doubt in my mind that we have…
Interscatter communication enables first-ever implanted devices, smart contact lenses, credit cards that ‘talk’ Wi-Fi
University of Washington researchers have introduced a new way of communicating that allows devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards and smaller wearable electronics to talk to everyday devices such as smartphones and watches. This new “interscatter communication” works by converting Bluetooth signals into Wi-Fi transmissions over the air. Using only reflections, an…
World’s first ‘nanofish’ could be used as guided drug missiles
Engineers have created metallic nanofish that are inspired by the swimming style of real fish, and could be used to carry drugs to specific sites of the body. The nanofish are 100 times smaller than grains of sand, and are constructed from gold and nickel segments linked by silver hinges. The two outer gold segments…