Thanks to the gene editing tool CRISPR, the global medical community is on the brink of treating a host of serious diseases, if not eradicating them.
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She Sorts C-Cells by The Seashore
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
Age Reversal Breakthrough
The cure for aging is coming
Spinach leaves could be used for heart tissue
Scientists turned these spinach leaves into beating heart tissue.
Photographic Age Biomarker in Mice
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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.
A new surgical glue can seal wounds in just 60 seconds
No more staples.
A novel textile material that keeps itself germ-free
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.
