1 in 3 American adults has prediabetes and 90% don’t know it. Prediabetes treatment adds years to your life and prevents type 2 diabetes.
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A growing body of evidence shows that coffee prevents type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is a massive health problem that’s about to get worse. A recent study concluded that 40% of Americans alive today are expected to get the disease. Left untreated, the soaring blood sugar caused by type 2 diabetes creates serious health problems throughout the body, including heart disease, stroke, loss of limbs, kidney failure, blindness, and double the risk of death.
Research has shown that drinking coffee is a way to prevent type 2 diabetes.
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NASA’s acting chief technologist, Dr Douglas Terrier, made the comments ahead of an appearance at the Codex innovation summit, held in London.
One of the techniques currently under development that it is following is NMN, a compound expected to enter clinical trials after it was shown to rejuvenate elderly mice in laboratory tests.
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Using sound waves, scientists sort markers for cancer and other diseases such as kidney disease, neurodegenerative diseases and other conditions.
Link to article: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-blood-tissue-biopsies.html
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MouseAGE is working to develop the first photographic biomarker of aging in mice to help validate potential anti-aging interventions, save animal lives, and greatly speed up the pace of longevity research.
To create it we will harness the power of an area of artificial intelligence called Machine Learning, and in particular Deep Learning.
Machine Learning, where a computer system can train itself to become better at a task without explicit programming, has already showed great performance in areas such as human facial recognition, autonomous driving, medical image processing, recommendation engines and many others. While these results are powerful, building up the necessary Neural Networks, or algorithms inspired by the human brain, requires a large dataset of images to use for training: thousands of them.
Due to this, the first stage of the project will be to build a simple instrument for data collection, implemented in a mobile application. This will be distributed among numerous mouse breeding facilities and research universities all over the world to rapidly collect and properly annotate image data for analysis.
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Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections — a textile that disinfects itself.
And independent tests show it can reduce bacteria levels by more than 90 per cent.
By incorporating the specially-engineered textile in a device designed to be used on hospital doors instead of the traditional aluminium door plate, that part of the door that people push to open it — they aim to bolster hand hygiene.
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