mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling A Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
How time flies!
It's been a couple years since I last posted. Much has happened! My hubby has been gone almost 4 years now. The pandemic is "over". I did manage to get the delta variety and survived, but I was pretty sick. I dosed myself with ivermectin and a z-pack that I had obtained from Mexico. 10 days sick. 2 months later my hair fell out. Well - that was special! It's growing back nicely. No other side effects.Bought a little r-pod travel trailer and have spent the past 2 winters in Yuma next to my sis and her hubby. Been quite the adventure. Went out camping with 4 o...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - June 21, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Five Reasons Why Restrictive Diets Do More Harm Than Good
If you’re anything like the vast majority of the population, you started this year with one of these goals as a top priority: “get in shape”, “lose weight”, “get fit” or “get healthy”.
I get it. For the longest time my Januarys started with a rigid healthy eating plan to get back in shape and lose the holiday bulge.
Having tried almost every diet imaginable, it’s clear that most diets we follow do one of two things, they either restrict calories or restrict food groups. Even so-called it’s not a diet but a lifestyles are still a diet because you cut the amount of food, or food groups (despite th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: drlarazib Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement Source Type: blogs
Paul Krugman and the “Ersatz” Theory of Private Currencies
George SelginAlthough I ' ve devoted many essays here to exploding myths about historical private currencies, there ' s one I ' ve yet to directly challenge. That ' s the belief that such currencies only thrive in the absence of official alternatives. Otherwise, the argument goes, people would drop private currencies like so many hot rocks. Since this opinion assumes that private currencies are inevitably inferior to official ones, I hereby christen it the " ersatz " theory of private currency. Note that " currency " means circulating or (in today ' s digital context)peer-to-peer exchange media: nobody denies that other so...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 6th 2022
This study examines evidence suggesting that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a significant early impact on AD pathology.
Although mitochondrial dysfunction is a typical indication of Alzheimer's disease, it is unclear whether the cellular systems that maintain mitochondrial integrity malfunction, aggravating mitochondrial pathology. Different levels of vigilance and preventive methods are used to reduce mitochondrial damage and efficiently destroy faulty mitochondria to maintain the mitochondrial equilibrium. The form and function of mitochondria are regulated by mitochondrial fusion and fission. In contrast, mitoch...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 5, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Nutrient-Response Mechanisms in Longevity
Many of the interventions shown in animal studies to slow aging involve changes in the mechanisms that respond to nutrient intake. In effect mimicking some fraction of the natural response to a reduced calorie intake. Cells become more frugal, engage in more repair and recycling. Over the long term this extends life span, though to a far greater degree in short-lived species than in long-lived species such as our own. These mechanisms occur in near all species, and have ancient origins. Improved survival in the face of seasonal famine was an early winner in the evolutionary arms race. But a season is a large fraction of a ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
How to Build Self-Confidence to Start a Business or Side Hustle
Failure. Humiliation. These are the anxious feelings that creep up the spine of many of us when considering starting a business.
Triumph. Pride. These are the feelings we need to focus on instead!
It’s easy to say just flip the switch from fear to courage. So let’s turn those words into practical actions!
As someone who has started businesses that have resulted in “learning moments” as well as successes, I’ll give you the exact keys to unlock your self-confidence to get started!
True Confidence Comes From Prior Success
No “fake it ‘til you make it” mumbo-jumbo here. Think of what you’...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: touchdownmoney Tags: career confidence creativity featured productivity tips self-improvement success side hustle Source Type: blogs
Glucose Fuel Cell to Power Medical Implants
Scientists at MIT created a glucose fuel cell that is small and powerful enough to conceivably power medical implants using the sugar present in our blood. The ultrathin device relies on a ceramic material as an electrolyte and platinum anodes/cathodes. The researchers were able to place just over 150 fuel cells onto a chip and the individual fuel cells produce a peak voltage of approximately 80 millivolts when a glucose solution was passed over them, placing them in range of the power requirements for many implanted devices.
Implantable medical technologies beckon us towards a whole new world of real-time health monito...
Source: Medgadget - May 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Surgery fuel cell mit Source Type: blogs
Sugar and Mental Health
Sugar tastes amazing and is in so many products that most people aren’t even aware of how much they are consuming daily.
Most people are aware that sugar isn’t a healthy food, but may not realize how detrimental sugar is to your overall health.
More recent research is showing a strong link between mental health and diet, suggesting that there is a two-way street between our bellies and our brains.
What has sugar in it?
When people talk about sugar, the first thing that comes to mind is the white, granulated stuff that the Brits pour into their tea.
However, there are many forms of sugar...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: diet featured happiness health and fitness psychology self-improvement sugar Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 16th 2022
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 15, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How To Live Longer: The Best Type Of Food For Weight Loss, Lower Blood Sugar And Cholesterol
Eating high amounts of this type of carbohydrate makes you live longer. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Does Much of the Life Extension of Calorie Restriction Depend on Length of Fasting?
How much of the improvement in health and extension of life span produced by calorie restriction in mouse studies is due to lowered calorie intake versus length of time spent fasting between meals? In most past studies, calorie restricted mice were fed once a day, resulting in long periods of fasting and hunger-induced metabolic changes between meals. It may be that this timing is important, and of late researchers have started to run studies intended to assess this question.
Data obtained to date strongly suggests that, yes, time of fasting does matter and does contribute to health and longevity benefits in mice in...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Vision And Eye Care
3D printed digital contact lenses, bionic eye implants, augmented reality: the future of vision and eye care is full of science fiction-sounding innovations. Here is where digital health will take ophthalmology in the future!
More than 80 percent of perception comes through vision
Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, L.D. Ros...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Augmented Reality Cyborgization 3d printing AI diabetes digital digital health future guide Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine technology vision eye care ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
The Weight Loss Diet That Cuts Belly Fat
The diet helps people control their blood sugar more effectively. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?
By guest blogger Emma L. Barratt
Alien abduction stories are, at least in the West, relatively common. From as far back as the early 60s, there have been reports of people being stolen away by aliens — typically at night — often for various physics-defying experiments, before being returned home in one piece.
And while stories like these might strike some as delusions that would typically arise from certain mental health issues, studies have found that abductees are no more likely than anyone else to have conditions affecting their perception of reality.
Thanks to psychological research over the past few deca...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs
