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Jan 6, 2017
Scar-free wound healing could be on its way
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
There are a couple of reasons that scar tissue looks different than regular skin – it lacks hair follicles, and it has no fat cells. Recently, though, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Irvine succeeded in addressing both factors. They’re now able to get wounds to heal with regenerated skin, instead of with scar tissue.
Myofibroblasts are the most common type of cell found in healing wounds, and they’re associated with scar formation. Led by U Penn’s Dr. George Cotsarelis, the research team was able to get those cells to transform into ones known as adipocytes – these are the fat cells that are present in normal skin, but absent in scars.
Scientists in the Cotsarelis Lab already knew which growth factors were necessary for hair follicles to form in the skin. This knowledge previously allowed them to induce follicles to grow at wound sites on mice, although that would supposedly only be solving half of the problem.
Jan 6, 2017
Aging does not have to mean what it means to many people today
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: futurism, life extension
The researchers at CellAge see aging differently to many people and they have a vision.
Jan 6, 2017
Researchers Create New, Self-Healing Artificial Muscles
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: cyborgs, materials
Jan 6, 2017
This 3D Printed Art Project Could Have Medical Applications
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Futurism, Brooklyn, New York. Covering the latest scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations.
Jan 6, 2017
CRISPR will be a huge story in 2017. Here are 7 things to look for
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Jan 6, 2017
Life Insurance Company is Replacing Human Employees With AI
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: employment, robotics/AI
In Brief
- Japanese life insurance company Fukoku Mutual is replacing 34 employees with AI derived from IBM’s Watson.
- Automation is securing its place now even outside of the manufacturing sector. While not all jobs are at risk of machine replacement, that list seems to be growing smaller.
Jan 6, 2017
Researchers uncover mechanism for cancer-killing properties of pepper plant
Posted by Steve Hill in category: biotech/medical
More progress with cancer using a senolytic compound found in Indian Long Peppers.
DALLAS – January 3, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have uncovered the chemical process behind anti-cancer properties of a spicy Indian pepper plant called the long pepper, whose suspected medicinal properties date back thousands of years.
Jan 6, 2017
“Black-Hole Bonanza” –New NASA Image Reveals Highest Concentration of Supermassive Objects Ever Seen
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: cosmology
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has completed the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time revealing the best picture ever at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning soon after the Big Bang. The central region of the image contains the highest concentration of supermassive black holes ever seen, equivalent to about 5,000 objects that would fit into the area of the full Moon and about a billion over the entire sky.
Jan 6, 2017
Transistor stretchier than skin for ultra-flexible wearable tech
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, wearables
A flexible transistor can stretch to twice its length without losing its conductive properties and could be used in electronic tattoo-style wearable sensors.