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Bioquark Inc. — Too Sick And Naked Podcast — Ira Pastor

Posted by Ira S. Pastor in aging, biotech/medical, DNA, food, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience, science, transhumanismTagged anti-aging, bioquark, biotech, health, healthspan, lifespan, longevity, regeneration

May 7
2018

http://toosickandnaked.com/2018/05/07/25-the-future-of-medic…-bioquark/

A ‘Magic’ Pill That Can Neutralize Traumatic Memories And Fears?

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in biotech/medical, neuroscience

May 7
2018

There’s a drug that can immediately minimize or even remove the trauma and fear response in human beings.

How propranolol, a drug used for years to combat high blood pressure, can actually change the fear response to PTSD, traumatic stimuli, and triggers.

A 66-Year-Old Woman’s Brain Implant Was Shut Off By a Lightning Strike

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in biotech/medical, neuroscience

May 7
2018

Lightning strikes, MRI machines, and other sources of powerful electrical fields can damage medical devices and cause serious brain injury.

Cognitive training, diet, exercise, and vascular management seen to improve cognition even in people with genetic predisposition for dementia (APOE e4)

Posted by Alvaro Fernandez in biotech/medical, genetics, health, neuroscience

May 7
2018

Time to end genetic fatalism: Lifestyle matters, even to those with APOE e4 allele. #dementia #alzheimers #apoee4 #lifestyle #genetics

Why does the microbiome affect behaviour?

Posted by Manuel Canovas Lechuga in evolution, neuroscience

May 7
2018

#microbiome

The microbiota can influence host behaviour through the gut–brain axis. In this Opinion, Johnson and Foster explore the evolution of this relationship and propose that adaptations of competing gut microorganisms may affect behaviour as a by‑product, leading to host dependence.

Toxin linked to motor neuron disease found in Australian algal blooms

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, neuroscience

May 6
2018

A toxic chemical produced by algae and linked to motor neuron disease has been detected in NSW rivers. Its presence — long suspected but now confirmed — could be linked to a disease hotspot in the Riverina.

Yale experiment to reanimate dead brains promises ‘living hell’ for humans

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, ethics, neuroscience

May 6
2018

A scientific experiment to reanimate dead brains could lead to humans enduring a ‘fate worse than death,’ an ethics lecturer has warned.

Last month Yale University announced it had successfully resurrected the brains of more than 100 slaughtered pigs and found that the cells were still healthy.

The reanimated brains were kept alive for up to 36 hours and scientists said the process, which should also work in primates, offered a new way to study intact organs in the lab.

The Post-Human Generation–An Engineered Evolution

Posted by Steve Nichols in biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

May 6
2018

On a recent BBC World Service program (News Hour Extra, 12.18.15), a group of space scientists were gathered to discuss these and other aspects of the post-human era. “What about the human soul”, the moderator asked, wondering whether or not these post-humans would still be human. None of the participants were particularly troubled by the question, since they all had assumed that the soul was no more than the particular configurations of DNA which resulted in varying degre…es of insight, intelligence, creativity, and sensitivity. Post-humans will be no different, they all agreed. Only their individual genomes will have been altered to produce a very different human reality – in other words a different human soul.

Once the human genome was completely sequenced; once efforts to recombine DNA had become a reality; and once a mind-computer interface had been realized, there was never any doubt that a post-human era was coming.

Researchers are developing a brain editing device

Posted by Genevieve Klien in neuroscience

May 3
2018

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley recently unveiled a new experimental device for editing brain activity.

Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About Our Universe Has Just Been Published, And It Will Melt Your Brain

Posted by Michael Lance in cosmology, neuroscience, physics

May 3
2018

Posthumous journal.

Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his last theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven.

The paper, published today in the Journal of High Energy Physics, puts forward that the Universe is far less complex than current multiverse theories suggest.

It’s based around a concept called eternal inflation, first introduced in 1979 and published in 1981.