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Feb 10, 2019

Lyn Slater is Making the World She Wants – GoDaddy Commercial

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GoDaddy is trending longevity.✌️😊.


See how Lyn Slater, the Accidental Icon, challenges the modeling status quo, offering an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic to women. And, she puts it all out there on a GoDaddy website. Make The World You Want: http://x.co/6ney6

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Feb 10, 2019

Advances in cryoablation for pancreatic cancer

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Extreme cold can be our friend in other ways too!! Directed attacks on liver cancer and pancreatic cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4716077/


Pancreatic carcinoma is a common cancer of the digestive system with a poor prognosis. It is characterized by insidious onset, rapid progression, a high degree of malignancy and early metastasis. At present, radical surgery is considered the only curative option for treatment, however, the majority of patients with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed too late to undergo surgery. The sensitivity of pancreatic cancer to chemotherapy or radiotherapy is also poor. As a result, there is no standard treatment for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Cryoablation is generally considered to be an effective palliative treatment for pancreatic cancer. It has the advantages of minimal invasion and improved targeting, and is potentially safe with less pain to the patients. It is especially suitable in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer. However, our initial findings suggest that cryotherapy combined with 125-iodine seed implantation, immunotherapy or various other treatments for advanced pancreatic cancer can improve survival in patients with unresectable or metastatic pancreatic cancer. Although these findings require further in-depth study, the initial results are encouraging. This paper reviews the safety and efficacy of cryoablation, including combined approaches, in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Keywords: Pancreatic cancer, Cryoablation, Combination therapy, Cryoimmunotherapy.

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Feb 10, 2019

FDA grants breakthrough designation to wearable dialysis device

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, wearables

The portable, wearable peritoneal dialysis device by Singapore-based AWAK Technologies is intended for patients with end-stage renal disease as an alternative to long hours of connection to large dialysis machines.

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Feb 10, 2019

This tower is a massive battery and it’s fuelled by gravity

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

This tower is a massive battery — and it could help solve one of renewable energy’s biggest challenges.

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Feb 10, 2019

Deactivating a trigger protein could stop melanoma in its tracks

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A new study may have uncovered a previously unknown way to fight melanoma, one of the most deadly forms of skin cancer. A team led by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine has identified a gene that, when disrupted with a drug compound, can prevent melanoma from developing.

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Feb 10, 2019

Red-eyed mosquitoes engineered to break the chain of Zika virus transmission

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

Scientists in Australia are looking at some pretty creative ways to tackle the Zika virus, which continues to pose a risk to millions across Africa, Asia and parts of the Americas. Following a trial last year where researchers were able to decimate disease-spreading mosquitos in the country’s north, scientists have now demonstrated an engineering technique that renders the biggest transmitter of the virus largely immune to it, raising hopes of a new way to control the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.

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Feb 10, 2019

Physicists Found a Brand-New Kind of Magnet Hiding in a Uranium Compound

Posted by in category: physics

This strange type of magnetism can form rapidly — and disappear just as quickly.

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Feb 10, 2019

Hallmarks of Aging – Altered Intercellular Communication

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Today, we conclude our ongoing series discussing the Hallmarks of Aging [1] by looking at the hallmark of altered intercellular communication, the change in signals between cells that can lead to some of the diseases and disabilities of aging.

As an integrative hallmark, altered intercellular communication is caused by other hallmarks of aging. As a result, there is some hope that therapies targeting these other hallmarks will be able to treat this one.

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Feb 10, 2019

Patrick Dougherty’s Mind-Blowing Nest Houses Made of Living Trees

Posted by in category: habitats

No, this isn’t the work of some gigantic bird. The living art you see before you was actually done by man — more specifically, artist and branchbender extraordinaire Patrick Dougherty. Crafting human-sized nest houses made by actually weaving growing trees into the shapes of houses, cocoons, pagodas, huts, giant water pitchers and even people, Dougherty has traveled the world with his truly extraordinary sculptures. Click through our photo gallery for images of some of his coolest work.

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Feb 10, 2019

Scientists Studying Near-Death Experiences Predict What Happens After Death

Posted by in category: futurism

A third of people who’ve had a brush with death report having one.

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