Researchers at Saint Louis University have successfully reduced the
symptoms of Alzheimer’s in mice genetically engineered to have
Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The specific molecular compound that was used
in the study, antisense oligonucleotide (OL-1), attacked the most widely-studied cause of AD, the accumulation of amyloid beta protein in the brain.
An international group of inter-disciplinary scientists in oncology,
plasmonics, nano-fabrication, microfluids, and surface chemistry have
developed a detection device that can identify cancer in the blood long
before any detection device available now. Though many years and many
scientists have contributed to its development, the cancer detector and
tracker is deceptively simple-looking and fits on a chip that’s only a few square
centimeters in size.
Is it getting to be a pain (literally) to get in and out of your car?
What about turning your head half way around to see what is in your
"blind spot?" Can you see while driving at night? Well, here are 5
nifty products that will help you continue to drive without hurting
yourself; they’ll also help to keep you and other drivers safe.
When you hear about or see designs that can really help people lead fuller lives, you want them available – now! That’s how MIT’s FingerReader
hit me. Well, I said, to no one in particular, if you can prototype it,
get it done, roll it out, let people who are blind or visually impaired
have access to it – right now! The FingerReader is something they will want.
Millions of people worldwide take glucosamine supplements to reduce
arthritis pain, but with varying effects; some are helped by it, some
not. But researchers have been studying the effects of glucosamine on
another aspect of aging… longevity.
Despite the many advances in cancer treatments, oncologists often encounter cancer cells that are resistant to therapy. Researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas tackled this phenomenon in tumors with different types of gynocological cancers and discovered a successful method of tricking these cells….
One thing boomers learn fast: Medicare and other insurance plans don’t
pay for hearing aids. And those buggers can cost up to $4,000 – $5,000 a
pair. There’s perhaps no one who knows these facts better than the man
who invented the Lyric hearing aid, which, on a subscription basis,
cost that much per pair per year! Now, that man, Adnan Shannib,
has invented iHear, the hearing aid for the 99 percent of us who would
love to hear, but can’t afford those Lyric prices. It’s the iHear, and
wait ’til you see what’s different about these hearing aids!
Perhaps you’ve read that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and
the American Heart Association (AHA) issued new guidelines on which
persons should take statin drugs for the prevention of heart disease
and stroke. On March 19, 2014, in the New England Journal of Medicine,
the AHA presented these guidelines, including age, gender, and race, as
well as various pre-existing health conditions that might call for
statin intervention. But what do the new guidelines mean for you?
The following are my picks for the best St. Patrick’s day ever, with a few post-St. Patrick’s day reconciliation-style inventions thrown in for good measure.
In a major research project to determine what causes a tumor
to spread to other cells and organs of the body, a team of researchers
from the Wistar Institute and several renowned international research
institutes have discovered a protein that is common in certain
metastacized cancers, but not found in the original site of the
cancer. They have identified the protein LIMD2 in metastatic breast, thyroid,
bladder, and melanoma cells, but not in the original tumors.
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