Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 1919
Mar 12, 2019
Aging Analytics Agency Photo 2
Posted by Franco Cortese in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, policy
And Vetek Association present their list of the top 60 Longevity Influencers in Israel, whose efforts in science, technology, industry and policy are driving the growth of the Israeli Longevity Landscape.
Link to the Report: https://www.aginganalytics.com/longevity-in-israel
Aaron Ciechanover Anat Ben-Zvi, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist Boaz Misholi Dov Chernichovsky — דב צ’רניחובסקי Ehud Cohen Eyal banin Idan Segev Ilia Stambler Israel Issi Doron Itamar Harel Itamar Raz Jonathan Mandelbaum Michael Neeman Mooly Eden Nir Barzilai MD Rafi Eitan Raphael Gorodetsky Ruth Arnon Uri Alon Valery Krizhanovsky Yael Sorek-benvenisti Yechezkel Barenholz Yosef Gruenbaum.
Mar 12, 2019
Your body has internet—and now it can’t be hacked
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, internet, security
Someone could hack into your pacemaker or insulin pump and potentially kill you, just by intercepting and analyzing wireless signals. This hasn’t happened in real life yet, but researchers have been demonstrating for at least a decade that it’s possible.
Before the first crime happens, Purdue University engineers have tightened security on the “internet of body.” Now, the network you didn’t know you had is only accessible by you and your devices, thanks to technology that keeps communication signals within the body itself.
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Mar 12, 2019
New understanding of sophistication of microbial warfare
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, military
Scientists have known for a century that viruses attack and sometimes kill bacteria, much the way humans come down with the flu. But only recently have they begun to understand the biochemistry that happens as bacteria and virus strive for competitive advantage, with far-reaching implications for medicine and more.
Researchers explain how viruses make a molecular decoy that is used to subvert the CRISPR-Cas bacterial immune system.
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Mar 12, 2019
Light provides control for 3D printing with multiple materials
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, engineering
Mar 12, 2019
Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, food, genetics
NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That’s according to the company making the oil, which says it’s the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.
Calyxt said it can’t reveal its first customer for competitive reasons, but CEO Jim Blome said the oil is “in use and being eaten.”
The Minnesota-based company is hoping the announcement will encourage the food industry’s interest in the oil, which it says has no trans fats and a longer shelf life than other soybean oils. Whether demand builds remains to be seen, but the oil’s transition into the food supply signals gene editing’s potential to alter foods without the controversy of conventional GMOs, or genetically modified organisms.
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Mar 12, 2019
Semiconductor-coated nanoparticles kill bacteria, cancer cells
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
Mar 12, 2019
Aging Analytics Agency Photo
Posted by Franco Cortese in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Press Release for Aging Analytics Agency and Vetek Association’s new 500+ page open-access report on the Longevity Industry in Israel, featuring quotes from Nir Barzilai MD, the founding director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Rafi Eitan, former chairman of the Israel Pensioners’ Party “GIL”, founding minister of the Israel Ministry for Senior Citizens, and the current chairman of Vetek Association, Ilia Stambler, the Chief Science Officer of Vetek Association and Eric Kihlstrom, Director of Aging Analytics Agency and former Interim Director of the £98-million Healthy Ageing Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Link to the Press Release: http://analytics.dkv.global/data/pdf/Longevity-in-Israel/Lon…elease.pdf
Link to the Report: https://www.aginganalytics.com/longevity-in-israel
Mar 12, 2019
How can doctors tell if you wake up during surgery?
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Waking up during surgery – it’s terrifying to think about. But it does happen. There is evidence that around 5 per cent of people may experience so-called anaesthesia awareness at some point on the operating table, though not everyone remembers it.
Living through such an event can be traumatic and painful. So what can be done to prevent it?
Anaesthetists have a few tools that can open a channel of communication while a patient is paralysed by neuromuscular blocking drugs.
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Mar 11, 2019
Genes that evolve from scratch expand protein diversity
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: biotech/medical
A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution led by scientists from the University of Chicago challenges one of the classic assumptions about how new proteins evolve. The research shows that random, noncoding sections of DNA can quickly evolve to produce new proteins. These de novo, or “from scratch,” genes provide a new, unexplored way that proteins evolve and contribute to biodiversity.
“Using a big genome comparison, we show that noncoding sequences can evolve into completely novel proteins. That’s a huge discovery,” said Manyuan Long, PhD, the Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution at UChicago and senior author of the new study.
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