A new study suggests that kinetin, a chemical frequently used in anti-aging creams, could be used to develop a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. Forget regenerating your youthful skin—this chemical could be used to reverse the cell-death that causes, the deadly disorder which afflicts more than a half-million people in the United States.
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Do you ever lie awake at night wondering what the world will look like in two or three hundred years? Ben Franklin did. And he thought that by the 21st century not only would humanity have some absurdly cool gadgets, men might live to be over 900 years old.
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Remember DVD players? Well, looks like they won’t be going the way of VHS tapes and cassettes (ask your parents) just yet. Because researchers have just figured out a way to turn them into affordable, blood-analyzing, cellular-imaging, laser-scanning microscopes capable of completing HIV tests in mere minutes. More »
Have you ever seen an insect with an upset stomach, or running a high fever? Probably not. But why is that, other than the fact that you’re too busy squashing them to notice? It turns out that some insects have wings covered in nano-scale spikes that naturally tear bacteria to pieces. More »
Even if it means protection from dangerous, even fatal diseases, having a needle jabbed into your skin and liquid sickness squirted into your flesh is no fun for anyone. There are other needleless injection solutions out there, but a new microneedle array made completely out of dried sugar promises to make vaccination not only painless, but dirt cheap. More »
In case you hadn’t heard, pretty much everyone in America has the Flu right now. It’s bad for economic productivity—unless you work in the food delivery business, in which case, the listless and miserable are a boon for business. The online food ordering service Seamless reports huge month-over-month increases in some classic sick people cuisine. More »
This isn’t a cartoon tree or some strange piece of modern art. In fact, it’s what researchers from the University of Texas at Austin saw when they managed to observe a virus in the act of penetrating a cell. More »
According to the National Institutes of Health, a second tainted steroid has been linked to the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak that’s infected 214 people and killed 15. It’s from the same company responsible for the first. More »
It starts with a headache, nothing major. Then the neck stiffness sets in, the high fever. That’s all the warning you have before fungal meningitis inflames your brain and takes your life. And it’s happening, all of a sudden, to unprecedented numbers of people all across America. More »
Researchers at the University of Cape Town in South Africa have developed a pill that can wipe out malaria with a single dose. It’s a development that could save millions of lives in Africa alone, not to mention the rest of the world. But there’s a teensy weensy little hurdle that must first be overcome: human testing. More »
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