Oct 24, 2019
First drug that can slow Alzheimer’s dementia
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Drug company says it will seek permission in the US to start marketing the potentially ‘life-changing’ new drug.
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Oct 24, 2019
New drug forces flu virus into ‘error catastrophe,’ overwhelming it with mutations
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Plemper says additional toxicity tests in animals have not thrown up any red flags, and the first trials of EIDD-2801 in humans are likely to start next spring. Pavia says the new drug could eventually be used in combination with other drugs to stave off resistance, a strategy already in use for HIV and hepatitis B treatments.
Oct 24, 2019
Poor toilet hygiene behind E. coli superbug spread
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, food
People not washing their hands after going to the toilet, rather than undercooked meat, is behind the spread of a key strain of E. coli.
Experts looked at thousands of blood, faecal and food samples.
They found human-to-human transmission was responsible — “faecal particles from one person reaching the mouth of another”.
Oct 23, 2019
Amazon buys healthcare start-up Health Navigator
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, health
Marketing always starts with Demand (Reuters) — http://Amazon.com/ Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.
(Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.
The deal comes after the company acquired online pharmacy PillPack last year, pitting itself against drugstore chains, drug distributors and pharmacy benefit managers. (reut.rs/31DSU8k)
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Oct 23, 2019
Heat camera at tourist attraction spots woman’s breast cancer
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, electronics
A trip to a tourist attraction in Scotland turned out to be a life-changing moment for one woman after a thermal camera detected she had breast cancer.
Bal Gill, 41, was looking back over images from her trip to Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, in Edinburgh, when she noticed a heat patch over her breast.
Oct 23, 2019
Dr. Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD — Cartilage Regeneration — Duke University — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry, DNA, genetics, health, life extension, posthumanism, science
Oct 23, 2019
Dr. Josh Mitteldorf — DataBETA Project — Population Scale Longevity Clinical Trials — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience, posthumanism, science, transhumanism
Oct 22, 2019
New CRISPR editing tool could potentially fix 89% of genetic defects
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Oct 22, 2019
Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Oct 22, 2019
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
Posted by Sean Cusack in categories: biotech/medical, law
Okay, Science time.
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