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Jan 23, 2019
We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
By Debora MacKenzie
If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease.
That’s bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published today shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer’s. There could even be a vaccine.
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This stuff is “natural”…
Precious minerals make the modern world go ‘round—they’re used in everything from circuit boards to tableware. They’re also some of the most toxic materials known to science, and excavating them has proved so dangerous over the years, some have been phased out of industrial production altogether. Listed below are the 10 most deadly minerals on earth. These rocks do not need to be thrown to hurt you!!
Jan 23, 2019
Special camera simulates birds’ color vision
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
Have you ever wondered what the world looks like to birds? Well, Swedish scientists have created a camera that will show you. Amongst other things, it has revealed that birds see tree foliage as much more than just a uniform “wall of green.”
Jan 23, 2019
California officials collect more than 1,000 dead birds following outbreak of contagious, bacterial disease
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
More than 1,000 birds died at a lake in Southern California earlier this month, state wildlife officials announced Tuesday.
The birds – primarily migratory water fowls such as Ruddy Ducks, Northern Shovelers, Black-necked Stilts and Gulls – died at the Salton Sea after contracting a contagious bacterial disease known as avian cholera, which is caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida, the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) said in a statement.
NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK IS NOW HOME TO A RARE AND COLORFUL MANDARIN DUCK
Jan 23, 2019
Blue Origin Just Landed Its First Rocket of 2019 Ahead of Crewed Flight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Jan 23, 2019
Gene Drives Work in Mice (if They’re Female)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bioengineering, genetics
Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.
Jan 23, 2019
$225 billion drug giant Novartis is taking a fresh approach to cancer treatment, and it could help prepare it for a ‘doomsday scenario’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks
Pharma giant Novartis is developing drugs that could prevent cancer before patients get it. One big question: how will we pay for them?
Taking a page from film noir spycraft, a team of researchers found a way to photograph an object while pointing a camera in the opposite direction.