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May 23, 2022
A Spacecraft Just Recorded The Lunar Eclipse Like You’ve Never Witnessed It Before
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: biotech/medical
A total lunar eclipse is an incredible sight. As Earth passes between the Moon and the Sun, its shadow slips across the face of our satellite so only long, red wavelengths – sunlight refracted by Earth’s atmosphere – can slip through, tinting the usually pale Moon blood-red.
That’s when we see it from here, on our planet. But from space, the view is very different – and now we can see what that looks like, thanks to the asteroid probe Lucy, led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), launched in October 2021.
May 22, 2022
These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Researchers have created autonomous particles covered with patches of protein “motors.” They hope these bots will tote lifesaving drugs through bodily fluids.
May 22, 2022
Can We Fix Ovarian Aging? Here Is One Startup Up For The Task!
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The field of female reproductive longevity and inequality is getting more and more attention. In fact, it is one of the hottest areas of the emerging longevity biotechnology industry, and every venture firm in the field is either investing, incubating, or looking for projects in this area. Companies like BOLD Capital, Future Ventures, LongeVC, and iconic biotechnology investors including Bob Nelsen and Christian Angermayer, are all active and significant partners in this area of science. While females generally live longer than men, their reproductive period is limited—something that is often overlooked. A female’s peak reproductive years are between the late teens and late 20s. Fertility starts to decline by age 30, and this decline becomes more rapid once women reach the mid-30s. By 45, fertility declines so much that getting pregnant naturally is unlikely for most women. Likewise, women begin life with a fixed number of eggs in their ovaries, usually around one million. This number decreases as women age. Ovaries age faster than the rest of a woman’s body—an understudied phenomenon of a neglected organ. None of us would be here without them. Yet surprisingly little is known about the avocado-shaped organ that’s nestled inside half of all humans.
The ovaries also influence a woman’s overall health and well-being. This includes how they age, since this organ tends to lose its function with age faster than any other tissue. This is called asynchronous aging, and it’s one reason why a woman’s fertility declines, and menopause strikes, while they are still relatively young.
In one of my previous articles, I wrote about Gameto, a biotechnology company that is translating the impact of ovarian aging to develop solutions to improve fertility and stop the impact of menopause on female health. Gameto’s co-founder and CEO Dina Radenkovic told me about her intention to redefine the narrative around female reproductive longevity and making it more around health and longevity. Gameto is building a platform for ovarian therapeutics to address menopause and improve assisted fertility. Dina told me she hopes it will make women suffer fewer health problems in their later lives. Neglecting the ovaries—except for their crucial role in IVF treatments—has been part of a general disregard for many aspects of women’s health in the biomedical world.
May 22, 2022
Scientific breakthrough cures memory loss in mice
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Researchers at Stanford University are reversing symptoms of Alzheimer’s in mice using a strange tactic — they’re infusing elderly mice with spinal fluid from younger ones.
Many medical breakthroughs that benefit humans are discovered by conducting trials on mice.
Though we look nothing alike, almost all the genes found in mice have similar functions to genes in humans. We get diseases for the same reasons, meaning scientists can study illnesses closely in mice to understand how they manifest in us.
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May 22, 2022
First human patient injected with revolutionary cancer-killing virus
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Scientists have injected the first human patient with a new cancer-killing virus. The virus, known as Vaxinia, has seen successful tests in animals. However, the true test of its efficacy begins with this new clinical trial.
May 22, 2022
First Human Trial of Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus Underway
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
The first experimental trial of a cancer-killing virus is underway. The treatment could offer an alternative to current options.
May 22, 2022
Progress, Potential, And Possibilities has had another busy month!
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, robotics/AI, sustainability
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May 22, 2022
Quantifying Biological Age: Blood Test #3 in 2022
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, information science, life extension
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Levine’s Biological age calculator is embedded as an Excel file in this link from my website:
https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/
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