DNA-Based Nanorobot Interacts with Live Cells
Researchers at INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) in France, and collaborators, have developed a DNA-based nanorobot called the Nano-winch. The tiny creation is made using DNA molecules and a “DNA Origami” approach. The tiny robot is so small that it can land on a cell surface and interact with ‘mechanoreceptors’ that the cell uses to sense mechanical forces acting on it.
The robots can apply tiny forces to the mechanoreceptors, allowing the researchers to measure the biochemical and molecular changes that result. While the technology is certainly useful for basic cellular rese...
Source: Medgadget - August 11, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Nanomedicine INSERM Source Type: blogs
What Lessons from France's Experience Could Be Applied in the US in Response to the Addiction and Overdose Crisis?
Henri Bergeron (SciencesPo), Renaud Colson (Facult é de Droit et des Sciences politiques de l ' Universit é de Nantes), What Lessons from France ' s Experience Could Be Applied in the US in Response to the Addiction and Overdose Crisis?, SSRN (2022): From the French... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 11, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Border Chaos and the Catch ‐22 of Immigration Reform
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States is more restrictive than most other developed countries. As my colleagueDavid Bier has shown, the foreign ‐born U.S. share of the population is the 35th highest out of 47 countries, including illegal immigrants. The United States has a foreign ‐born share of the population between Spain and Estonia. Using just thelegal immigrantshare of the population, the United States would have the 40th highest share that is foreign ‐born, between Denmark and France.A big difference in immigration between the United States and Europe is that illegal immigrants...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
CNN myocarditis fact check by a Cardiologist (me)
BY ANISH KOKA
A recent CNN article discusses approval of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 6-17. The CDC director acted after its vaccine advisers on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to support the two dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group. The goal per CDC director Walensky was to “protect our children and teens from the complications of severe COVID-19 disease”
The elephant in the room that the CDC advisory group addressed is the risk of myocarditis from the vaccines that has been widely reported since April of 2021 by multipl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health CNN myocarditis Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Some serious backsliding
I suspect that much or all of Chapter 21 was a later interpolation. It ' s part of the explanation for why Judah fell to Babylon, even though Josiah (coming soon) restored Torah-based orthodoxy, which was supposed to be the original point of the whole thing. So they inserted the absolutely worst possible king, so that no matter what Josiah did, he couldn ' t make up for it. (BTW Mademoiselle Hephzibah is the name of the French skunk who was Pogo Possum ' s occasional love interest.)21 Manas ′seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Heph′...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 28, 2022 Edition-----Sadly the war drags on, Biden seems to be pretty impotent on most policy fronts and the US seems to be heading into a recession. Not good,In the UK the choosing the next PM is off and running as the country and Europe are cooling down after a heatwave (for them) of biblical proportions!In OZ Parliament is meeting which is when the rubber will really hit the road as a new virus wave runs out of control still! We need to do more to control it as we realise just how bad long COVID is!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/how-a-nobel-laureate-got-australian-economists-offside-...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Digital Clothing, Biofashion And Smart Outfits – The Future Of Fashion
Fast fashion is not only unsustainable but also means an unbearable burden to the planet. The situation is ripe for change. Could lab-grown leather and other novel ways of synthetic garment production, biofashion or digital clothing show the way to an alternative future for the apparel industry? Is there a chance of improving our attitude towards clothing items by adding more value, new functionality?
From Burda to the unsustainable downward spiral of fast fashion
When our grandmothers in the 1950s wanted to dress according to the latest trend, they bought the Burda Magazine alongside some fabric and used the fam...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Biotechnology Health Sensors & Trackers design digital future Healthcare wearables fashion fast fashion digital clothing digital clothes artificial leather artificial material synthetic biofashion Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The future is now
If you ' re just waking up after a 72 hour coma, you need to be told thatwestern Europe is suffering from an unprecedented heat wave. But it ' s worse than unprecedented. As the linked Reuters article tells us:Britain ’s Met Office weather agency also issued its first-ever “red warning” of extreme heat for Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in southern England are forecast to reach 37 Celsius (98.6 Fahrenheit). Britain ' s highest recorded temperature, from July 2019, was 38.7 Celsius; the country ' s weather agency forecasts an 80 percent chance that this current heat wave will overtake that record. There is...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 19: War, and Peace
George SelginThanks to the Roosevelt Recession, in the spring of 1938 the New Deal ' s " Keynesians " finally found themselves in the saddle, displacing the planners, reformers, and trust-busters whose legislative efforts had already run out of steam some months before. The Keynesians ' rise was symbolized by the $3 billion spending program FDR announced during hisfireside chat that April.[1]But the crisis that gave Keynesians the upper hand also proved fatal to the Roosevelt administration ' s more ambitious plans, Keynesian or otherwise. Thanks to it, voters sent many Democrats, and New Deal democrats especially, packing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
From the National Constitution Center: “Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy”
Walter OlsonLast week saw the launch of a project in which several of us at Cato were closely involved. The National Constitution Centercommissioned a set of three“Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy” essays on how best to strengthen the institutional basis of American democracy. The essays were developed by separate teams: Team Progressive, Team Libertarian, and Team Conservative.Team Libertarian consisted of Cato colleagues Clark Neily and Ilya Somin and me.Team Progressive consisted of law professors Ned Foley of Ohio State and Franita Tolson of the University of Southern California, whileTeam Conservati...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Most of us don ’t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds
Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.
Paul G. Bain from the University of Bath and Renata Bongiorno from Bath Spa University explore this question in a new paper published in Nature Sustainability. They find that the assumption we always want more, no matter how much we have, may not be completely accurate: while some of us do have unlimited desire for wealth, they ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
Most of us don ’ t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds
Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.
Paul G. Bain from the University of Bath and Renata Bongiorno from Bath Spa University explore this question in a new paper published in Nature Sustainability. They find that the assumption we always want more, no matter how much we have, may not be completely accurate: while some of us do have unlimited desire for wealth, they ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
The interim law librarian: Part 5 - what to do with this small amount of new knowledge?
My brief time as a law librarian is nearly over. I have rather enjoyed it, I have to say. I have not had to teach anything, and most of the enquiries have been about referencing, but I did look into sources of French law, liaise with a supplier about a change of database interface, and look into ebook platforms. It has certainly been interesting to learn about the habits, resources and conventions of another subject discipline. With all this new found knowledge, I find myself wondering what use health students might make of law resources. They may encounter legislation and...
Source: Browsing - July 4, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: health librarianship law librarianship Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 4th 2022
This study showed that centenarians had very specific changes in CD4+ T cell populations, which were manifested by an elevated Th17/Treg ratio in vivo, as well as a changed secretory phenotype. Although the T cells of centenarians cannot resist the aging-related expression of proinflammatory genes, their secretory phenotype was altered, explaining the relatively low level of inflammation in centenarians. These results suggested the presence of a mechanism to ameliorate inflammaging in centenarians. This may be achieved by reversing the imbalance of Th17/Treg cells and reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Longevit...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 3, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
