Stem cells, is there anything they can’t do? As you get older your muscles deteriorate. Now scientists are finding improved muscle health after using stem cells. Athletes, the elderly and those with degenerative muscle disease would all benefit from accelerated muscle repair. When skeletal muscles, those connected to the bone, are injured, muscle stem cells…
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Brain Cells Death: We May Know Why It Happens
BRAIN CELL ‘EXECUTIONER’ IDENTIFIED. Common culprit may cause damage in stroke, brain injury, neurodegenerative disease. Despite their different triggers, the same molecular chain of events appears to be responsible for brain cell death from strokes, injuries and even such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have pinpointed the protein at…
Limit to human life may be 115 (ish)
Human life spans may be limited to a maximum of about 115 years, claim US scientists. Their conclusions, published in the journal Nature, were made by analysing decades of data on human longevity. They said a rare few may live longer, but the odds were so poor you’d have to scour 10,000 planet Earths to…
As tech trickles in, medicine is about to hit warp speed
Digital Trends explores the near future trends in medicine and how what technology did to postal mail, CD music, newspapers and video is coming for medicine next. Now, instead of just puzzling over complex medical questions with our limited human brainpower, we’ve begun enlisting the help of machines to analyze vast amounts of data, recognize…
Parabiosis: rejuvention by young blood
Read up on how young blood apparently rejuvenates older blood. While interpretations were often simplified and no, young blood can’t make you live forever, there has been a number of findings over the last decade around the power of blood that have significant implications for human health and the ageing process. More at TheLong+Short here:…
CRISPR: Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever
A great video explaining what CRISPR is and how it will change our existence in the near future.
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…
Fighting the aging process at a cellular level
It was about 400 BC when Hippocrates astutely observed that gluttony and early death seemed to go hand in hand. Too much food appeared to ‘extinguish’ life in much the same way as putting too much wood on a fire smothers its flames. If obesity led to disease and death, he thought, then perhaps restraint…
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…
Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’
A new study increases and strengthens the links that have led scientists to propose the “transposon theory of aging.” Transposons are rogue elements of DNA that break free in aging cells and rewrite themselves elsewhere in the genome, potentially creating lifespan-shortening chaos in the genetic makeups of tissues. As cells get older, prior studies have…