Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 2568
Apr 14, 2016
Stem Cell Technique Could Regenerate Any Human Tissue Damaged
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Taking their cue from salamander regeneration, a team led by the University of New South Wales says that a stem cell therapy capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease, or aging could be available within a few years, thanks to an innovative new technique.
While stem cells have worked wonders in medicinal research, showing signs of curing everything from spinal cord injuries to blindness, they’ve always had their shortcomings. But one study is promising a new “game changing” technique for stem cells.
Taking their cue from salamander regeneration, new research led by the University of New South Wales says that a stem cell therapy capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease, or aging could be available within a few years, through an innovative new technique.
Apr 14, 2016
Clothes that Transmit Digital Data Are Coming
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, electronics, health, mobile phones, neuroscience, wearables
Imagine shirts that act as antennas for smartphones or tablets, workout clothes that monitor fitness level or even a flexible fabric cap that senses activity in the brain!
All this will soon be possible as the researchers working on wearable electronics have been able to embroider circuits into fabric with super precision — a key step toward the design of clothes that gather, store or transmit digital information.
“A revolution is happening in the textile industry. We believe that functional textiles are an enabling technology for communications and sensing and one day, even for medical applications like imaging and health monitoring,” said lead researcher John Volakis from Ohio State University.
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Apr 13, 2016
Team uses 3D tissue engineering to revolutionize dental disease
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, engineering, health
The discomfort and stigma of loose or missing teeth could be a thing of the past as Griffith University researchers pioneer the use of 3D bioprinting to replace missing teeth and bone.
The three-year study, which has been granted a National Health and Medical Research Council Grant of $650,000, is being undertaken by periodontist Professor Saso Ivanovski from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland.
As part of an Australian first, Professor Ivanovski and his team are using the latest 3D bioprinting to produce new, totally ‘bespoke,’ tissue engineered bone and gum that can be implanted into a patient’s jawbone.
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Apr 13, 2016
Science allows paralyzed man move his hand again
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, science
Apr 13, 2016
Genetic Superheroes Walk Among Us, But Shhh! No One Can Tell ‘Em
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Scientists announced they have found 13 “resilient” people who have genetic mutations that should have doomed them to serious childhood disease.
Apr 13, 2016
This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: biotech/medical, food, government, health
#nutrition #CrapScience
So after 40 years of prescribing low fat diets & demonising cholesterol, the largest & longest clinical experiment ever (40 years, 9,000 patients, randomly assigned diets) shows that “Patients who lowered their cholesterol, presumably because of the special diet, actually suffered MORE heart-related deaths than those who did not.”
In other words, if you’ve been cutting on steaks, butter etc. for 4 years or more, you may have INCREASED your mortality rate from heart disease by %8.
Apr 12, 2016
Is the Universe a Simulation? Scientists Debate
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, information science, mobile phones, neuroscience, space
Hmm… That would explain Alzheimer disease — It’d be like some sort of unabashedly evil version of a smart phone data caps!
Or not.
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Apr 11, 2016
Watch a live surgery take place in virtual reality on April 14th
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, augmented reality, biotech/medical, cyborgs, virtual reality
Hmmm; not sure if I can watch given my tolerance level of seeing blood.
Cutting-edge technology has a way of snaking itself into the medical field. Over the past few years, for example, we’ve seen 3D printers used to create prescription medication, prosthetic limbs, casts, replacement bones, homemade cosmetic braces and even cartilage implants.
Now, we’re beginning to see some of the ways that virtual reality will impact modern medicine with a company by the name of Medical Realities leading the way.
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Apr 11, 2016
We need Black intelligence
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Luv it; AI (more than any other technology) as well as Gene editing needs diversity in order to have relevance in the world.
We need Black intellligence.