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Daily supplements of curcumin may benefit cardiovascular health to the same extent as exercise for postmenopausal women, says new data from a clinical trial from Japan.
So BIG THINK published a sensible little essay by the distinguished public intellectual John Gray. He says don't think about immortality as something you can achieve through your own efforts.
Forget about immortalizing yourself. Don’t waste money. Don’t waste time. Don’t waste thought or anxiety on having yourself frozen or your brain frozen.
For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Older patients with higher blood levels of individual and total omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω3-PUFAs) have lower mortality than their peers, especially coronary heart disease-related death.
In collaboration with an international research team, University of Copenhagen researchers have for the first time mapped telomerase, an enzyme which has a kind of rejuvenating effect on normal cell ageing.
Un groupe de chercheurs de l’University of Antarctica travaille actuellement sur un projet ambitieux destiné à concrétiser les idées de quelques transhumanistes comme Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt et Kenneth Hayworth.
When Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control information. ENIAC, the first modern computer developed in the 1940s, used vacuum tubes and electricity.
Mesurer le taux d’oxygène sanguin dans tous les vaisseaux en temps réel ? Cette prouesse est maintenant possible grâce à une nouvelle technologie, appelée oxygraphie photoacoustique de flux.
Une équipe suédoise a remonté le temps en rendant leur jeunesse à des cellules sanguines chez la souris. Cette découverte prometteuse démontre que le processus de vieillissement cellulaire est réversible.
Bonne nouvelle pour les amateurs de chocolat : en manger réduirait les risques d’accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC) ! De quoi se donner bonne conscience pendant les fêtes de Pâques.
Des chercheurs de l'EPFL ont développé un implant sous-cutané capable d'effectuer des analyses de sang et d'envoyer le résultat en temps réel. Disposé sous la peau d'un patient, ce mini laboratoire de quelques millimètres cubes envoie les informations par ondes radio à un patch collé à proximité, qui à son tour émet les résultats en bluetooth vers un téléphone portable. Les analyses sont ensuite transmises au médecin via le réseau téléphonique ou par Internet.
The field of cell therapy, which aims to form new cells in the body in order to cure disease, has taken another important step in the development towards new treatments.
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The brain imaging technique "everyone's been waiting for" has arrived, and may speed up brain anatomy research "by 10 to 100 times."
Certaines lésions de l'ADN des neurones résulteraient du fonctionnement normal du cerveau
L'huile d'olive, ça sert à tout : assaisonner la salade, faire briller les cheveux, mais aussi comme des tas d'études l'ont montré, elle :aide à ne pas perdre la mémoire ;fonctionne comme un anti-inflammatoire et vous libère de certaines douleurs...
Tight control of blood glucose levels is critical to mitigating the long-term complications of diabetes; however, the intensive insulin therapy required for this control is frequently accompanied by recurrent episodes of low blood sugar...
Since the first reports of successful cloning of mammals by somatic cell nuclear transfer, concerns have been raised about the efficiency and repeatability of cloning techniques, and the health of cloned offspring.
A team of British researchers will soon begin testing an electrical device which, by attaching to a nerve that controls the body's appetite for food, could provide an alternative to weight-loss surgery.
L’opération de bypass gastrique, pratiquée sur les personnes souffrant d’obésité sévère, fait effectivement mincir. Mais cela ne s’expliquerait pas uniquement par la réduction du volume de l’estomac.
Genetic logic gates will enable biologists to program cells for chemical production and disease detection. If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust their activities in fermentation tanks used to make drugs and other chemicals. Now researchers at Stanford University have developed a way to make genetic parts that can perform the logic calculations that might someday control such activities.
Déjà adoptée au Sénat, la recherche sur les cellules souches embryonnaires humaines sera débattue cette après-midi à l'Assemblée. Coincée entre les évidents progrès médicaux que celles-ci ouvriraient et les risques de dérives, la France est déjà en retard.
Des chercheurs dirigés par Christophe Bernard au sein de l’Unité Inserm 1106 « Institut de neurosciences des systèmes » ont conçu un système de capteurs de l’activité du cerveau 100% biocompatibles en matériau organique.
How much a person eats may be only one of many factors that determines weight gain. A recent Cedars-Sinai study suggests that a breath test profile of microorganisms inhabiting the gut may be able to tell doctors how susceptible a person is to developing obesity.
The blood of young and old people differs. In an article published recently in the scientific journal Blood, a research group at Lund University in Sweden explain how they have succeeded in rejuvenating the blood of mice by reversing, or re-programming, the stem cells that produce blood. Stem cells form the origin of all the cells in the body and can divide an unlimited number of times. When stem cells divide, one cell remains a stem cell and the other matures into the type of cell needed by the body, for example a blood cell.
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