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Jun 15, 2019

Map your genome at home with a cell-phone sized human DNA sequencer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones

And yet still; the system still requires everyone to carry an identification card.


The most extensive and detailed human genome sequence yet has been assembled using a hand-held device roughly the size of a cell phone.

An international team of scientists working at a lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, created a portable nanopore sequencer that not only used DNA fragments hundreds of times longer than is standard, but closed 12 gaps in the known human genome, according to a UCSC press release. That makes the human genome it assembled the most complete one ever created to date. A paper describing the research was published in the scientific journal Nature Biotechnology.

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Jun 15, 2019

First Human Clinical Trial Results on the Anti-Aging Compound, Urolithin A, PUblished

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, life extension

LAUSANNE, Switzerland—(BUSINESS WIRE).

Breakthrough translational science of dietary supplementation with Urolithin A, a pomegranate metabolite, on mitochondrial and cellular health in humans published in the journal Nature Metabolism

Amazentis, an innovative life sciences company pioneering scientific breakthroughs in nutrition to manage health conditions linked to aging, announced today a collaborative publication in Nature Metabolism with scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) demonstrating the Company’s lead product, Urolithin A (UA), is safe, bioavailable and improves mitochondrial and cellular health in humans.

Jun 15, 2019

Act now on CRISPR babies

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Another researcher has announced controversial plans to gene edit babies. The scientific community must intervene.

Jun 15, 2019

Genetic Brain-Mapping of Autism Photo

Posted by in categories: genetics, mapping, neuroscience

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Jun 15, 2019

Scientists discovered a mushroom that eats plastic, and believe it could clean our landfills

Posted by in category: food

What if this rare mushroom is a solution to the earth’s plastic problem?

Jun 15, 2019

Is America Ready for Legalized Shrooms? This Psychologist Made of Bees Says “Yes”

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, law, policy

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With the growing economic success of legalized recreational marijuana in 11 states it seems that national legalization is right around the corner, but could hallucinogenic mushrooms be next?

The city of Oakland recently decriminalized shrooms, a policy likely to be enacted by the entire state of California. Advocacy groups for the outright legalization of psilocybin have gained a lot of traction in recent years throughout California, Oregon and Colorado. We recently interviewed a respected psychologist who believes that legalized magic mushrooms not only could but should happen in America. He was incredibly wise, and made of hundreds of thousands of bees.

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Jun 15, 2019

Why SpaceX is Making Starlink

Posted by in category: space travel

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Jun 15, 2019

New drugs for breast cancer could replace chemotherapy

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Antibody drug conjugates (ADC) are generating excitement with a breast cancer treatment called DS-8201, which has few side effects.

Jun 15, 2019

Summer camps face new risk amid ongoing measles outbreak

Posted by in category: futurism

An ongoing measles outbreak is raising new concerns for parents this summer. Camps are trying to do what they can to keep kids safe. Dr. Jon LaPook explains.

Jun 15, 2019

Researchers Discover Revolutionary Way to Transform Blood Types to Allow for More Transfusions

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Type O blood is the universal donor, but these scientists have found a way to make Type A into Type O. This could double the blood supply for transfusions.