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Dec 15, 2019
How a protein in your brain could protect against Alzheimer’s disease
Posted by Paul Battista 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 Paul Battista 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
A robot read 3.5 million books to see how we describe men and women differently
Posted by Marco Monfils 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 Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Dec 15, 2019
Surplus chromosomes may fuel tumor growth in some cancers
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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 Alberto Lao 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 Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Dec 14, 2019
Alzheimer’s memory discovery reveals function of brain area affected at onset
Posted by Paul Battista 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 memory networks in the brain) are problems remembering the things that have happened to us. This type of memory is called episodic memory.
