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Mar 20, 2019

Pollutants, pathogens could team up to make us sick

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Imagine that… The earth is round.


Many people view pollutants and pathogens as separate causes of illness. However, recent research indicates that the two can interact, changing how people and animals respond to infectious diseases. According to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, environmental pollutants appear to weaken the immune system, reduce vaccine efficacy and increase pathogen virulence.

More than 20 years ago, researchers showed that exposing mice to low levels of a dioxin called 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo–p-dioxin made them more susceptible to influenza virus. Since then, several studies have suggested that other chemicals, such as perfluorooctanoic acid, mercury and arsenic, can also alter animals’ immune responses and decrease their resistance to infectious diseases. And epidemiological studies in humans have linked chemical exposure in the womb to a child’s increased risk of infectious disease. However, scientists are only now beginning to unravel how this happens, Senior Editor Britt Erickson writes.

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Mar 20, 2019

Liforum: Dear Longevity Experts, I need your expertise

Posted by in category: life extension

Another anti-aging analytic agency rated David Sinclair number one, but WTF is with his face!?! has a different opinion on how David looks like )

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Mar 20, 2019

Scientists Define “Very Low Level” of Exercise That Lowers Risk of Death

Posted by in category: health

These activity levels “may be easy to achieve by most adults.”

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Mar 20, 2019

The First Gene-Edited Food Is Now Being Served

Posted by in categories: food, genetics

Calyxt is the first with its gene-edited oil, but several other companies also have edited foods in the works.

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Mar 20, 2019

The Rivalry Between Two Doctors to Implant the First Artificial Heart

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Featuring titans of Texas medicine, the race was on to develop the cutting-edge technology.

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Mar 20, 2019

For The First Time, Physicists Have Clocked The Ghostly Speed of Quantum Tunnelling

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

In quantum physics, particles can ’tunnel’ through seemingly impenetrable barriers, even when they apparently don’t have the energy to do so. Now, researchers have gleaned behind the curtain to better understand how this trick is done.

This problem has puzzled scientists for decades – in particular, the time it takes for particles to do their quantum tunnelling, and get from one side of a barrier to another.

In the case of the atomic hydrogen particles used in these experiments, the researchers found that it happens instantaneously.

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Mar 20, 2019

New Horizons Team Shares Amazing New Details About Kuiper Belt Object MU69

Posted by in category: space travel

Scientists with the New Horizons mission gathered together in Texas yesterday to discuss the latest findings about MU69. This distant Kuiper Belt object—which bears a striking resemblance to a flattened snowman—is turning out to be even weirder than we imagined.

After NASA’s New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, mission planners sent the spacecraft on a trajectory towards 2014 MU69, a distant trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Aside from its location in the Kuiper Belt and a distinctly reddish hue, virtually nothing was known about the object, which was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope just five years ago.

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Mar 20, 2019

Novel research links an aging gut microbiome with heart disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

An intriguing new study, led by scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, suggests an aging gut microbiome may be somewhat responsible for the degradation in cardiovascular heath that tends to appear as we grow older. The study is yet another addition to the growing body of evidence affirming the role gut bacteria plays in age-related disease.

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Mar 20, 2019

Mayon volcano is the most active volcano in the Philippines, located just north of the coastal town of Legaspi in southern Luzon about 325 km southeast of Manila

Posted by in category: space

Mayon is a near-perfect cone; its steep, forested slopes look rather like a bull’s eye when viewed from above.


NASA has a unique vantage point for observing the beauty and wonder of Earth and for making sense of it. The images in this book tell a story of a 4.5-billion-year-old planet where there is always something new to see.

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Mar 20, 2019

We are happy to announce Dr. Mike West, founder, and CEO of AgeX, as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference

Posted by in category: life extension

“We’ve left Mike to the last of these announcements, but he’s a prime example of “last but not least” — indeed, he is the only speaker we’ve invited who was also an invited speaker last year. That’s no accident: this exploding and immensely diverse field boasts a huge number of stellar researchers, such that I could happily fill the program without repetition even if the meeting lasted a week. But Mike is the ultimate pioneer in our field: he was the first rejuvenation researcher, by well over a decade, to make a success of taking early-stage work into the private sector. He’s still at the absolute forefront of this crusade, and I’m eager to learn what he has to say this year”, says Aubrey de Grey.

https://www.undoing-aging.org/news/dr-mike-west-to-speak-at-undoing-aging-2019

#undoingaging #sens #foreverhealthy

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