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Apr 16, 2019
Drug-resistant bugs discovered in animal hospital prompts health warning
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
Pets in a British animal hospital have been found to be harbouring potentially lethal drug-resistant bugs that could be transferred to owners.
Tests by Public Health England (PHE) revealed three cats a dog were colonised by bacteria able to fend off Linezolid, a “last-resort” antibiotic used to treat superbugs such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
No staff or owners are known to have been taken ill as a result, however the agency last night warned veterinary surgeries to enforce proper cleaning practices after this first discovery of its kind.
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Apr 16, 2019
Drug-resistant fungus is sprouting worldwide, and it has health researchers worried
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
Drug-resistant fungi are appearing around the globe, and some are known to cause illness in humans.
Apr 16, 2019
DNA reveals origin of Stonehenge builders
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown.
Researchers in London compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found in Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe.
The Neolithic inhabitants appear to have travelled from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Iberia before winding their way north.
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Apr 16, 2019
90 New Cases of Measles Reported in U.S. as Outbreak Continues Record Pace
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
The number of new measles cases in the United States rose again this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday, bringing the total number to 555 in 2019. This year’s outbreak is on course to be the worst since the country eliminated measles as an endemic disease in 2000.
Health authorities reported 90 additional cases as of April 11, with outbreaks in New York, Washington, California, New Jersey and Michigan, up from 78 the week before. Those cases were largely linked to travelers returning from countries seeing outbreaks of their own, including Israel, Ukraine and the Philippines.
The disease then spread through populations in which large numbers of people are unvaccinated, the C.D.C. said.
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Apr 15, 2019
Paul Greengard, 93, Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist, Is Dead
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Dr. Greengard’s research described how cells react to dopamine, an important chemical messenger in the brain. His work provided the underlying science for many antipsychotic drugs, which modulate the strength of chemical signals in the brain.
“Our work shows the details of how dopamine produces these effects — in other words, what’s wrong in these diseases and what can be done to correct them,” Dr. Greengard said.
Apr 15, 2019
Wound-closing system stretches skin over major injuries
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Apr 15, 2019
Scientists propose putting nanobots in our bodies to create ‘global superbrain’
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, internet, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
A team has proposed using nanobots to create the ‘internet of thoughts’, where instant knowledge could be downloaded just by thinking it.
An international team of scientists led by members of UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular Manufacturing predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, artificial intelligence (AI) and computation will lead this century to the development of a human ‘brain-cloud interface’ (B-CI).
Writing in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the team said that a B-CI would connect neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud computing networks in real time.
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Apr 15, 2019
Magnetic Field Record Set With a Bang: 1,200 Tesla
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
Apr 15, 2019
Diabetes drug may prevent, slow kidney disease, study finds
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Invokana, a drug that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes, may also help thousands of people who require dialysis.
A patient undergoes dialysis at a clinic in Sacramento, California, on Sept. 24, 2018. Rich Pedroncelli / AP file.