Tag: medicine
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Synthetic vaccines, natural fears...
British scientists develop a new way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which does not rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer. [1] Safer for the virus it is supposed to kill, that is... Because if vaccines based on live viruses have problems with success rates, I can only have nightmares on the success…
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Medicine vs. Alternative medicine 1-0
Read the following news brief: "A component of bee venom packaged in super-tiny blobs can knock out HIV, a new study finds. Researchers testing the delivery system in lab dishes report that these nanoparticles attach to and destroy the virus without damaging cells, offering an early glimpse of a technology that might — with a…
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Science is choosing the HARD way...
HeLa cells are the world's most commonly used human cell lines, and have served as a standard for understanding many fundamental biological processes. In a study published today in G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics online, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, announce they have successfully sequenced the genome of a HeLa cell…
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Synchronizing with the world...
Research on how anesthesia works on humans, shed new light on the patterns of human brain activity related to the stages of losing consciousness. When the subjects were just beginning to lose consciousness, the researchers detected an oscillation of brain activity in the low frequency (0.1 to 1 hertz) and alpha frequency (8 to 12…
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sFRP3 and Being sad (a good thing?)
Scientist discovered how antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy works. They found out that these therapy methods reduce the Secreted frizzled-related protein 3 (sFRP3), which is in turn an inhibitor to the creation of new neurons in our brain. (1, 2, 3) This same protein increases in our body as we get older, thus playing also…
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