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Dec 15, 2019

How a protein in your brain could protect against Alzheimer’s disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Summary: White blood cells in the brain are regulated by the CD33 protein. CD33 decreases the likelihood that a person will develop Alzheimer’s disease. Source: University of AlbertaResearch sh.

Dec 15, 2019

Nutritionist Sarah DiLorenzo’s de-bloating smoothie recipe

Posted by in category: futurism

The combination of ingredients in this smoothie is designed to help reduce bloating.

Each ingredient serves a different function: the celery will help with fluid retention; ginger will help reducing swelling; mint will help with gas; banana is great for water retention and provides fibre; coconut water will help with electrolytes; spinach helps detox as well as with water retention; kiwi will help break down protein and the yogurt will provide probiotics.

Dec 15, 2019

6 Foods You Should Eat As You Get Older

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Dec 15, 2019

A robot read 3.5 million books to see how we describe men and women differently

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

About AI bias.


Yet AI bias is by itself a biased term, as if the machine/algorithm were to blame for human bias and/or an incorrect data set.

Dec 15, 2019

Star Wars Prosthetic Arm

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

This ‘Star Wars’-inspired prosthetic arm gives amputees the ability to feel again.

Dec 15, 2019

Surplus chromosomes may fuel tumor growth in some cancers

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Extra copies of some genes on excess chromosomes may keep cancer cells growing. Without those extras, cancer cells form fewer tumors in mice.

Dec 14, 2019

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover is getting a friend!

Posted by in category: space

NASA €™s Curiosity Mars Rover is getting a friend!

Next summer, #Mars2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity’s design, they aren’t twins. Curiosity was designed to learn more about past water on Mars, and Mars 2020 will look for signs of past life.

Dec 14, 2019

Sleeping Driver Spotted Behind the Wheel of Tesla in Massachusetts

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Another Tesla driver was caught sleeping behind the wheel on the highway.

Dec 14, 2019

Alzheimer’s memory discovery reveals function of brain area affected at onset

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Scientists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer’s begins, offering hope for the development of future treatments.

Alzheimer’s disease is the commonest form of dementia with more than 520,000 people in the UK suffering from the disorder.

The first symptoms of this progressive disorder (which results from degeneration of networks in the ) are problems remembering the things that have happened to us. This type of memory is called .

Dec 14, 2019

Miniature Brains Recently Sent Out Brain Waves for the First Time

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The brain organoids, about the size of a pea, can be used to better understand neurological diseases.