Implanted brain electrodes send signals that bypass damaged spinal cord area, using man’s thoughts to stimulate leg movement.
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China faces new Covid wave from XBB variant that could peak at 65 million cases a week
So it is confirmed that the new variant of covid 19 virus is here but the actual spike now is in China. But will most likely spread globally much how previous viruses have done. Be sure to be prepared for another pandemic. Anyway what may be the possible cure would be new bioengineering techniques with crispr to eventually be immune to the virus like I have posted in some genetically engineered cells recently were made. But rest assured this could lead to a global pandemic because the current variant is taxing our current vaccination measures.
The country once had some of the harshest Covid restrictions on the planet, but the response from the government and the public is relatively muted this time.
Quantum scientists accurately measure power levels 1 trillion times lower than usual
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Scientists in Finland have developed a nanodevice that can measure the absolute power of microwave radiation down to the femtowatt level at ultra-low temperatures—a scale trillion times lower than routinely used in verifiable power measurements. The device has the potential to significantly advance microwave measurements in quantum technology.
Quantum science takes place mostly at ultra-low temperatures using devices called dilution refrigerators. The experiments also have to be done at tiny energy levels—down to the energy level of single photons or even less. Researchers have to measure these extremely low energy levels as accurately as possible, which means also accounting for heat—a persistent problem for quantum devices.
To measure heat in quantum experiments, scientists use a special type of thermometer called a bolometer. An exceptionally accurate bolometer was recently developed at Aalto University by a team led by Mikko Möttönen, associate professor of quantum technology at Aalto and VTT, but the device had more uncertainty than they had hoped for. Although it enabled them to observe the relative power level, they couldn’t determine the absolute amount of energy very accurately.
This electrode-based device helps to restore movement after paralysis
Scientists have found a way to restore the brain and spinal cord interface, developing an implantable device that enables paralyzed patient to stand and walk again.
A spinal cord injury (SCI) can be debilitating for some people, making it difficult for them to walk normally again. Some individuals may take weeks to recover their ability to walk after an injury, while others may take months or even suffer from paralysis.
This is mainly due to the SCI hindering communication between the brain and the region of the spinal cord responsible for limb movement.
LIGO starts its fourth round of searching for gravitational waves and black holes
After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has officially resumed its hunt for the signatures of crashing black holes and neutron stars.
“Our LIGO teams have worked through hardship during the past two-plus years to be ready for this moment, and we are indeed ready,” Caltech physicist Albert Lazzarini, the deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, said in a news release.
Lazzarini said the engineering tests leading up to today’s official start of Observing Run 4, or O4, have already revealed a number of candidate events that have been shared with the astronomical community.
MIT’s New CRISPR-Based Gene-Editing Technique Transforms Cancer Mutation Studies
With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.
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Decoding the Aging Process: The Impact of Blood Dilution on Biological Age (Irina Conboy at EARD)
In short blood dilution is very, very good for you.
In this talk, Dr. Irina Conboy discusses the role of repair and regeneration in lifespan and healthspan, contending that these factors, rather than entropy and time progression, truly govern our aging process. She describes the research her team is pursuing, investigating whether improving the efficiency of bodily repair in older individuals could effectively make them younger. She suggests that biological age could potentially be reversed and discusses heterochronic parabiosis and plasma dilution as potential ways to accomplish that. Conboy highlights recent research suggesting that old blood has a greater impact on cellular health and function than young blood. She presents her team’s experimental research on the rejuvenation effects of plasma dilution, demonstrating its significant impact on reducing senescence, neuroinflammation, and promoting neurogenesis in the brains of old mice.
00:00:00 — Importance of repair and regeneration in aging.
00:04:45 — Young blood vs. old blood, heterochronic parabiosis.
00:10:17 — Plasma dilution is key.
00:15:49 — Kiana Aran’s blood heterochronicity on a chip.
00:17:56 — The role of senescence in parabiosis and blood exchange.
00:27:53 — Measurements of biological age.
00:36:57 — Systemic calibration is globally rejuvenative.
00:37:30 — Conclusions.
About the Speaker:
Irina Conboy is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Bioengineering. Her discovery of the rejuvenating effects of young blood through parabiosis in a seminal paper published in Nature in 2005 paved the way for a thriving field of rejuvenation biology. The Conboy lab currently focuses on broad rejuvenation of tissue maintenance and repair, stem cell niche engineering, elucidating the mechanisms underlying muscle stem cell aging, directed organogenesis, and making CRISPR a therapeutic reality.
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Researchers recreate the machine which cleans up the waste inside a cell
Autophagy is the process by which cells break down waste and gunk inside them.
There’s a cleaning process happening in our bodies daily. Derived from Greek, the process is called autophagy, which means self-eating.
It plays a vital role in immunity and host defense. In the human body, self-eating is the process by which our cells break down, remove abnormal proteins and old waste macromolecules and organelles in its cytoplasm, and kill invading microorganisms.
This wireless ultrasound patch can sense deep tissue vital signs
The device can track body signals from tissues as deep as 164 mm for up to twelve hours at a time.
A team of researchers and scientists from the University of California San Diego have developed a stick-on ultrasound patch, also called an ultrasonic system-on-patch (USoP), which a person can wear on the go as the device gives insight on the blood pressure, heart rate, and other physiological signs of the subject wearing it.
As per the press release, the USoP tracks these body signals from tissues as deep as 164 mm for up to twelve hours at a time.
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As per the press release, the USoP tracks these body signals from tissues as deep as 164 mm for up to twelve hours at a time.
