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Feb 13, 2018
Creating designer babies with CRISPR will soon be possible
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Summary: Designer babies have recently become possible, as new techniques have gained credibility from serious scientists. Here’s how they can do it. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
On Feb 8, the AHA named “Fixing a gene mutation in human embryos” as among the “top advances in heart disease and stroke research” of the past year. They joined a chorus of voices heralding this as a research breakthrough.
The announcement brought attention to the fact that US scientists have recently demonstrated the plausibility of using gene editing to make designer babies.
Feb 13, 2018
BioViva’s Liz Parrish reports promising progress on human gene therapy
Posted by Brady Hartman in category: biotech/medical
Human gene therapy trials are reporting promising results, according to Liz Parrish, the CEO of BioViva and patient zero in a test of gene therapy on her own body.
Liz Parrish says she’s ‘mind-blown’ by the success of gene therapy trials. She is the BioViva CEO who tested gene therapy on her own body.
Feb 13, 2018
CWRU researchers block cancer’s spread to body with novel technique
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Summary: In a medical first, scientists at CWRU have inhibited metastasis – the spread of cancer cells to another part of the body. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
In a first of its kind victory, researchers from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spread of cancer cells from one part of the body to another.
To accomplish this feat, the team relied on a novel epigenetic model of how cancer metastasizes. Epigenetics is the master program which turns genes on and off. The group included researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Cleveland Clinic. The researchers published their results in the journal Nature Medicine.
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Feb 13, 2018
ASU researchers reveal cancer-seeking nanorobots that starve tumors
Posted by Brady Hartman in category: biotech/medical
Cancer-seeking nanorobots that choke off tumors has just been announced by an international collaboration between Arizona State University and NCNST.
ASU researchers announce cancer-seeking nanorobots that successfully swims into a tumor and zaps it with a deadly payload.
Feb 13, 2018
Longevity Olimpic games: Who will be champions in healthspan?
Posted by Edward Futurem in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Right in moment when Olympic games 2018 had started, founders of DAYS longevity accelerator and one of renowned longevity organizations leader have decided on running a sort of Olimpic games in life science, aiming to identify the world champions in area that really matters for everyone (life extension).
W hat is problem, why so important issue have no visible signs of progress?
If you’re sort of between 40 and older male, 40% of you will never reach the age of 74. Why multiple brilliant inventions of diagnostic and cure technologies have no financing and adoption in clinics?
Feb 13, 2018
Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: engineering, particle physics, science
Zoom in close on the center of the picture above, and you can spot something you perhaps never thought you’d be able to see: a single atom. Here is a close-up if, you’re having trouble:
This strontium atom is emitting light after being excited by a laser, and it’s the winner of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) photography award. The EPSRC announced the winners of its fifth annual contest yesterday. Winning photographer David Nadlinger, graduate student at the University of Oxford, was just excited to be able to show off his research.
“It’s exciting to find a picture that resonates with other people that shows what I spend my days and nights working on,” Nadlinger told me. The best part, to him, was “the opportunity to excite people about my research, more than winning a competition.”
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Feb 13, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Reaching The Finish Line Show — Ira S. Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, cryonics, disruptive technology, DNA, economics, futurism, genetics
Feb 13, 2018
SpaceX May Be Launching Its First Global Internet Satellites Next Week
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: internet, satellites
A recent Falcon 9 launch reportedly contained two prototype global internet satellites, bringing SpaceX closer to establishing the Starlink global network.
Feb 13, 2018
In startup, George Church bets cryptocurrency will boost DNA sequencing
Posted by Edward Futurem in categories: biotech/medical, cryptocurrencies
Nebula Genomics aims to help people understand their genome and guarantees that individuals will retain permanent ownership of their DNA data, all paid for with a new cryptocurrency.