We all know man-made chemicals are damaging ecosystems across the planet. But could certain chemicals also be negatively affecting human fertility?
Dr Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the author of Count Down, predicts that current trends could not continue much longer without threatening human survival.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira. Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh.
Was the addition of mitochondria a first step in the formation of complex cells or one of the last? A new study of bacteria tries to answer this contentious question in evolutionary biology.
Dr Johnston is also Founding CEO and Chairman of the Board Of Directors of Calviri (https://calviri.com/).
The Center for Innovations in Medicine and Dr. Johnston’s current work focuses on innovative solutions to fundamental problems in bio-medicine, and their organization brings together a unique group of interdisciplinary scientists to identify, analyze, and come up with inventive solutions for significant un-met medical needs.
Current major translational sciences and technology development projects of Dr. Johnston include 1) Cancer Eradication: with a focus on developing a universal, preventative cancer vaccine, and 2) Health Futures: with an aim of producing a diagnostic system that allows continuous monitoring of the health status of healthy people — helping in the revolution to pre-symptomatic medicine.
1. Cancer is the disease of information processing which I described in the article in. 1986.
2. This “computer software ” consists of the network of mutated genes and in most. patients these genes are not inherited as mutated. The mutations occur during. patient’s life. The ” software” instructs the body to make billions of malignant cells.
3. This software should be removed from patient’s body. As long as it stays in the. body the cancer will come back.
4. This is the reason why standard of care can’t cure advanced cancer with surgery. radiation and chemotherapy, while they decrease tumor size they can’t remove mutated genes.
5. Antineoplastons have a chance to do it because based on laboratory studies they.
At the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, in Canada, researchers have developed a stem-cell-based therapy that is regenerating spinal cords in laboratory animals and may become available for human clinical trials.
Blocking inhibitory molecules that cause neuronal cells to degenerate, and inhibit stem cell transplants may prove a breakthrough therapy.
Summary: Seizures originate from an excess of excitatory over inhibitory neural activity in confined regions of the brain, and spread only when they overcome strong inhibitory activity in surrounding regions.
Source: Weill Cornell University.
New evidence from a zebrafish model of epilepsy may help resolve a debate into how seizures originate, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The findings may also be useful in the discovery and development of future epilepsy drugs.
Analyzing sodium levels in breast cancer tumors can give an accurate indication of how aggressive a cancer is and whether chemotherapy treatments are taking effect, new research has shown.
In a study, by the universities of York and Cambridge and funded by charities Cancer Research UK and Breast Cancer Now, researchers developed a technique using sodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect salt levels in breast cancer tumors in mice.
Using this technique, the researchers looked at breast cancer tumors and discovered that salt (sodium) was being accumulated inside cancer cells and that more active tumors accumulate more sodium.