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Jan 30
2019

Bedford Day Celebration with Ben Best

Celebrate Bedford Day, a celebration of the first human to be placed into cryonic suspension.

Dr. James Bedford is the oldest person currently in Cryostasis.

On Jan. 12, 1967, James Bedford, a psychology professor at Glendale College in California who had just died of cancer, took his first step toward coming back to life. On that day, the professor became the first person ever frozen in cryonic suspension, embedded in liquid nitrogen at minus-321 degrees Fahrenheit.

Ben Best will give a presentation on:

Advances in Cryonics Technology since James Bedford.

Jan 30
2019

Is empirical testing of string theory possible?

Conference at ludwig maximilian university in munich.

Jan 30
2019

New materials could ‘drive wound healing’

Researchers have developed new bioinspired material that interacts with surrounding tissues to promote healing.

Jan 30
2019

Brain Cancer Patient Is First to Get Untested Treatment Under Trump-Backed Law

‘Right to Try’ law allows patients and drugmakers to circumvent the FDA’s rules on access to experimental drugs.

Jan 30
2019

Osteoporosis breakthrough: Bone mass increased

A groundbreaking set of studies has found that blocking certain receptors in the brain leads to the growth of remarkably strong bones. Could a new osteoporosis treatment be on the horizon?

Jan 30
2019

A neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts—just like we do

Generative adversarial networks are not just good for causing mischief. They can also show us how AI algorithms “think.”

Jan 30
2019

Gene-editing tool CRISPR repurposed to develop better antibiotics

A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and his collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco have repurposed the gene-editing tool CRISPR to study which genes are targeted by particular antibiotics, providing clues on how to improve existing antibiotics or develop new ones.

Jan 30
2019

The brain may be able to repair itself — with help

Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain’s inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured and then re-injected in a lesioned area of the same brain, they can help repair and rebuild it. “With a little help,” Bloch says, “the brain may be able to help itself.”

Jan 30
2019

Paraplegic patients walk again with spinal cord implants

David is a paraplegic — but now he can walk again.

Jan 30
2019

Implantable Knee Shock Absorber Embedded in First Patient in U.S.

A total knee replacement is usually the result of the cartilage within the joint wearing out due to arthritis. Such surgeries are difficult to perform, require a good deal of rehabilitation, and too often result in sub-optimal outcomes. An implantable shock absorber has now been implanted for the first time in the United States to test whether it can delay the need for total knee replacements, and maybe even avoid such procedures completely in many patients.

The Calypso Knee System was developed by Moximed, a company based in Fremont, California, and surgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are the first to try it out in the U.S. The device attaches to the sides of the femur and tibia bones, away from the joint itself and therefore doesn’t alter the anatomy of the fragile joint.