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Jun 10, 2019
Researchers Identify Virus and Two Types of Bacteria as Major Causes of Alzheimer’s
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
A worldwide team of senior scientists and clinicians have come together to produce an editorial which indicates that certain microbes — a specific virus and two specific types of bacteria — are major.
Jun 10, 2019
New Immunotherapy Treatment Removes All Tumors In Woman With Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Research published today in Nature Medicine by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has described a new immunotherapy approach, which led to a complete disappearance of tumors in a woman with advanced metastatic breast cancer who only had months to live.
The findings show how naturally-occurring tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) were extracted from the patient’s tumor, grown outside of her body to boost their numbers and injected back into the patient to tackle the cancer. The patient had previously received several treatments including hormone therapies and chemotherapy, but nothing had stopped the cancer progressing. After the treatment, all of the patient’s tumors disappeared and 22 months later, she is still in remission.
Researchers are particularly enthusiastic about the potential of TILs to treat a group of cancers termed ‘common epithelial cancers’, which include those of the colon, rectum, pancreas, breast and lung, together accounting for 90% of all deaths due to cancer in the U.S, around 540,000 people annually, most of these from metastatic disease.
Jun 10, 2019
Cyberpunk 2077 Full Presentation with Keanu Reeves | Microsoft Xbox E3 2019
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Jun 10, 2019
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Full Gameplay Reveal Presentation | EA Play E3 2019
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: entertainment
EA shows off fifteen minutes of unedited gameplay from Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order at EA Play at E3 2019. Plus, an interview with the game’s developers!
Jun 10, 2019
Israeli study: Nervous system can transmit messages to future generations
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
The study, led by Prof. Oded Rechavi of Tel Aviv University’s George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, was published Thursday in the scientific journal Cell.
Jun 10, 2019
This Insane Nanochip Device Can Heal Tissue Just by Touching The Skin Once
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Imagine buzzing the skin over an internal wound with an electrical device and having it heal over just a few days – that’s the promise of new nanochip technology that can reprogram cells to replace tissue or even whole organs.
It’s called Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), and while it’s only been tested on mice and pigs so far, the early signs are encouraging for this new body repair tool — and it sounds like a device straight out of science-fiction.
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Jun 10, 2019
3D bioprinting: Is this the future of organ transplantation?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical
Scientists around the world are developing revolutionary means by which to 3D print parts of the human body, from skin to internal organs.
Jun 10, 2019
Transplanting Gut Microbes from Young to Old Mice Reverses Immune Decline
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The gut microbiome appears to be increasingly responsible for at least some of the decline of the immune system during aging, and a new mouse study shows that it is reversible.
The gut microbiome
The microbiome describes a varied community of bacteria, archaea, eukarya, and viruses that inhabit our guts. The four bacterial phyla of Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria comprise 98% of the intestinal microbiome.
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