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“Good” Cholesterol Not So Good After All, New Study Shows

Written by: Peter Murray 14 hours ago

A study of over a hundred thousand trial participants showed that gene variations which change levels of HDL have no effect on heart attack risk.

The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over [...]

Longevity & Health

New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade

Written by: Peter Murray 2 days ago

The trial was led by University of Pennsylvania researchers Bruce Levine and Carl June.

A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the [...]

Longevity & Health

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts

Written by: David J. Hill 4 days ago

A neural interface device allows patients to control robotic arms with their minds.

Cathy Hutchinson hasn’t moved her limbs of her own volition for 15 years, but by imagining she was using her [...]

Longevity & Health

Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It

Written by: Peter Murray 5 days ago

The H5N1 virus, or Bird Flu, was easily transmissible between birds but not humans. Two scientists have changed that and are publishing how they did it.

The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, [...]

Longevity & Health

Controversial Anti-Aging Chemical Resveratrol Back In The Spotlight With New Details About How It Works

Written by: Peter Murray 10 days ago

Small molecule, big controversy. A new study clears doubts about how resveratrol causes its anti-aging effects.

Resveratrol, the famed anti-aging supplement extracted from red wine, has experienced its share of controversy. An experimental artifact, a pair [...]

Longevity & Health

Toothless No More – Researchers Using Stem Cells to Grow New Teeth

Written by: David J. Hill 11 days ago

Stems cells grown on polymer scaffolds form replacement teeth in customized sizes and shapes.

It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults [...]

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Exclusive Interview with COO of Drchrono: iPads + Medicine = The Future

Written by: Aaron Saenz 15 days ago

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Meet Drchrono, the free app for your mobile device that could revolutionize healthcare in the modern world. Founded by Daniel [...]

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Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind

Written by: Peter Murray 16 days ago

A microchip with 1,500 light sensors sits beneath the retina and stimulates neurons which project to the brain's visual cortex.

The blind really are beginning to see again. After receiving retinal implants in a trial, two people in the UK [...]

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New Device Automatically Slices and Scans Brains, Then Puts Them Into A Google Map

Written by: Peter Murray 20 days ago

The Knife-edge scanning microscope automatically images brain slices, which are then digitally combined to create a whole brain atlas.

Forget all those hours of slicing your mouse brain in to sections, snapping images, and then manually putting them back [...]

Longevity & Health

Same Kidney Transplanted Twice

Written by: Peter Murray 22 days ago

Cera Fearing donated her kidney to her brother, Ray. When the kidney began to fail, Ray donated it to Erwin Gomez, who is healthy ten months after surgery.

Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. [...]

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Regenokine: The Unproven Treatment That Professional Athletes Are Flying To Germany For

Written by: Peter Murray 27 days ago

Regenokine therapy, which involves spinning out and heating part of the blood then reinjecting it, remains both unproven by the FDA and popular among the rich and hopeful.

Kobe Bryant did it. Alex Rodriguez did it. Golfer Fred Couples did it, even the late Pope John Paul II [...]

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Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval

Written by: Peter Murray 34 days ago

Amyvid, a drug that binds to a marker for Alzheimer's disease, gives physicians a new tool with which to differentiate between normal (left) and Alzheimer's (right) individuals.

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]

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New Bedside Genetic Screen Yields Results In An Hour

Written by: David J. Hill 39 days ago

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A new point-of-care system accurately screens a patient’s DNA for a single gene in an hour. The shoebox-sized device from Canadian-based Spartan [...]

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turtles_allthewaydown

Nehopsa - As you know, science was badly burned on this subject before. It's a pretty extraordinay claim, so until they have extraordinary proof, I imagine [...]

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Bento

Well, maybe this can help :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZTIwSIuGw I like your humor, we will see, I am an 'agnostic' concerning the Ecat. There is something, LENR is real, that's for [...]

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nehopsa

...so by now the Greeks should be repaying their national debt/saving on their energy outlays with abundance of free energy. The first commercial free energy power plant [...]