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Tag Archives: medicine
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent
Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged chromosome, dna, gene therapy, lifespan, longevity, maría blasco, medicine, mice, regenerative medicine, telomerase
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“Good” Cholesterol Not So Good After All, New Study Shows
The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged bad cholesterol, cholesterol, good cholesterol, hdl, heart disease, ldl, lipoprotein, medicine, niacin
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Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It
The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged bird flu, Genetics, h1n1, h5n1, influenza, medicine, recombinant dna, terrorism, virus
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Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind
The blind really are beginning to see again. After receiving retinal implants in a trial, two people in the UK [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged China, cyborg, medicine, retinal implant ag, retinal implants, Stem Cells
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New Device Automatically Slices and Scans Brains, Then Puts Them Into A Google Map
Forget all those hours of slicing your mouse brain in to sections, snapping images, and then manually putting them back [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged allen brain institute, anatomy, brain, brain atlas, knife-edge scanning microscope, medicine, microscopy
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Same Kidney Transplanted Twice
Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. [...]
Regenokine: The Unproven Treatment That Professional Athletes Are Flying To Germany For
Kobe Bryant did it. Alex Rodriguez did it. Golfer Fred Couples did it, even the late Pope John Paul II [...]
Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]
In Utero Surgery – More Common Today, But No Less Miraculous
You might recall a particular photograph that caused quite a stir back in 1999. It was the photograph of Samuel [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged fetus, hand of hope, in utero surgery, medicine, myelomeningocele, regenerative medicine, spina bifida
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Brain Scanner Being Used To Give Stephen Hawking A New Voice
World renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has given so much to the world of physics. Now he’s doing what he can [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged bci, computer brain interface, iBrain, medicine, NeuroVigil, Philip Low, speech, Stephen Hawking
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Group Set To Sequence 1000 Genomes By The End Of The Year
When the Human Genome Project got underway in 1990 it was expected to take 15 years to sequence the over [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 1000 genomes project, dna, DNA sequencer, DNA sequencing, Human Genome Project, medicine, snps
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Telepresence Robot To Join Doctors On Rounds Next Month
Another robot wants to give busy doctors the ability to be in two places at one time. Reminiscent of – [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Robots, Singularity
Tagged ctrl works, medicine, robot, Robots, telemedicine, telepresence puppet
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Raising The Mammoth – Russian And Korean Scientists Set Out To Bring Back The Extinct Giant
South Korean and Russian scientists have agreed on a project right out of “Jurassic Park.” Maybe not as cool as [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged cloning, dna, embryonic stem cells, genomics, hwang woo-suk, mammoth, medicine, Stem Cells, woolly mammoth
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Weight Loss Pill Recommended By FDA Panel, Company’s Stock Doubles
Want to lose weight? Well now there’s a drug that allows you to shed ten percent of your body weight [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged medicine, obesity, qnexa, vivus, weight loss pill
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Brain Scans Detect Autism In Six Month Olds
Autism is normally diagnosed in children at around 18 months to 2 years of age, when parents see odd behavior [...]
Gene Therapy For Blind Again A Success, More Patients To Be Treated
In 2009, 12 people participated in a clinical trial through which they received an experimental gene therapy for an inherited [...]
Scientists Use Brain Waves To Eavesdrop On What We Hear
The day we can scan a person’s brain and “hear” their inner dialogue just got closer. Scientists at the University [...]
While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper Bound. Why?
Ray Kurzweil predicts that in the coming decades the term “life expectancy” will become irrelevant. By then medical advances and [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged Aubrey De Grey, genes, Genetics, longevity, medicine, rectangularization of mortality curve
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Another First For 3D Printing – Woman Receives Jaw Implant
An 83-year-old woman suffering from a lower jaw infection became the first person to receive a jaw implant manufactured with [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 3d printing, bone implant, layerwise, longevity, medicine, regenerative medicine
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SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones
The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged android, andy miller, App, medicine, microscopy, skylight, smartphone, tess bakke
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Daniel Kraft Gives You a Peek of the Future of Medicine at TEDMED
Modern healthcare is sick, but Dr. Daniel Kraft knows a little something about the cure. At the 2011 TEDMED conference [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged daniel kraft, FutureMed, healthcare, medicine, singularity university, TEDMED
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India Finds Cases Of Tuberculosis Completely Resistant To Drugs
This is scary. A report out of India identifies four new cases of tuberculosis that are completely resistant to drug [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged antibiotics resistance, India, medicine, tuberculosis, WHO
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Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells
Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged brain, dna, genes, medicine, pituitary, regenerative medicine, RIKEN, yoshiki sasai
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Surgeon Uses 3D Printer To Make Models Of Bone – And Saves Hospital Bookoo Bucks
While necessity is the mother of invention, frustratingly high costs can motivate us to ask if there’s another way. Mark [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 3d printer, 3d printing, mark frame, medicine, orthopedics, reconstructive surgery
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