Dec 15, 2019
Can We Reverse the Brain Damage That Drug Use Causes?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Drugs can cause permanent harm to the brain. We’re only beginning to find ways to heal the hurt.
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Dec 15, 2019
Delivering the goods: Drones and robots are making their way to your door
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, robotics/AI
With companies offering free shipping to gain a competitive edge, radical new technologies are being tested to cut the cost of the supply chain’s expensive “last mile”.
Dec 15, 2019
Mathematician Terence Tao Cracks a ‘Dangerous’ Problem
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: mathematics
Tao has made huge progress on the Collatz conjecture, a simple-seeming puzzle that has bedeviled hapless mathematicians for decades.
Dec 15, 2019
Insights into anti-aging properties of experimental Alzheimer’s drug
Posted by Kevin Huang in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are homing in on exactly how two new experimental Alzheimer’s drugs could be generating the anti-aging effects seen in early animal studies. The discovery of a unique metabolic pathway, associated with both general aging and the onset of dementia, offers researchers novel directions for future anti-aging studies.
Salk researchers have been developing two experimental drugs for several years with a view on improving cognition and slowing the neurodegenerative decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Called CMS121 and J147, the drugs were effective in slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s in initial animal tests. However, the compounds also seemed to demonstrate signs of slowing down general markers of brain aging.
As the two drugs move toward human trials, the researchers have been working to uncover exactly what molecular mechanisms are at play to explain how they work. One potential mechanism was uncovered in early 2018 but that was only part of the story. Now, the Salk team has uncovered an exciting new molecular pathway, influenced by the two drugs, that could explain how the compounds slow down brain aging.
Dec 15, 2019
My Life Expectancy Has Changed & I’m Freaking Out
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
Dec 15, 2019
A Hyper-Connected World With 25 Times Faster Travel Will Triple the World Economy
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: economics, education, space travel
Nextbigfuture has looked at the likely future of SpaceX up to 2030 and now recaps the view to 2030 and extends the view to 2050.
The Mars aspect of SpaceX future impact will be less important than how 25X the speed of sound travel transforms our world and has huge economic impacts.
Dec 15, 2019
Researchers develop a new way to regenerate dental enamel
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Dec 15, 2019
How a protein in your brain could protect against Alzheimer’s disease
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: White blood cells in the brain are regulated by the CD33 protein. CD33 decreases the likelihood that a person will develop Alzheimer’s disease. Source: University of AlbertaResearch sh.
Dec 15, 2019
Nutritionist Sarah DiLorenzo’s de-bloating smoothie recipe
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
The combination of ingredients in this smoothie is designed to help reduce bloating.
Each ingredient serves a different function: the celery will help with fluid retention; ginger will help reducing swelling; mint will help with gas; banana is great for water retention and provides fibre; coconut water will help with electrolytes; spinach helps detox as well as with water retention; kiwi will help break down protein and the yogurt will provide probiotics.
