#First Direct evidence of the Formation Process of Brown dwarfs Using the Very Large Array, an international team of astronomers has discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs,
Kenya has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world at least 10 times that of most countries.
Luckily, experimental products that combat cute radiation syndrome (ARS) have already been tested in people and could be on the cusp of market approval, Nature Medicine reports.
But while those guard against the long-term risks of thyroid cancer linked with chronic radiation exposure
the extreme radiation sickness associated with exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation over a short period of time.
and fluid supplements to deal with the symptoms of the disease. Doctors also sometimes administer cancer drugs to help the immune system rebound.
Those blood progenitor cells form mature infection-fighting and clotting blood cells when infused by intravenous drip.
and the Pandemic and All-Hazard Preparedness Act (signed into law 2 years later) allotted billions of dollars in funding for research into medical countermeasures to be used in the case of nuclear, chemical,
It's possible to use CO2 to fracture shale rock formations, but it's expensive, particularly in large-scale operations.
reuse the CO2 to fracture rock formations and then capture it again to use on the next well.#
and the Great RSS Gold rush of 2013 is reaching fever pitch. Bloomberg Businessweek reports. An RSS reader pulls in feeds of articles from various websites.
and It'll Heal Your Wounds in 15 Seconds Flat Bloomberg News reports on an incredible new invention that astounding people across the world and across the web.
which was to use a polymer to seal up a wound very quickly. In the beginning I wasn expecting that the polymer itself would be able to quickly stop bleeds.
This is how his invention manages to seal wounds so quickly d
#Smart Highway: Solar power Bike path Opens In Netherlands This Week On November 12, 2014, The netherlands will proudly open up the world first public solar powered road.
Their setup resembled a fever thermometer, where the length of the mercury column in a capillary is controlled by the thermal expansion of the mercury in a reservoir connected to the capillary.
#Monitor Diabetes From Your Smart Watch My son, Evan, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2012.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that attacks the pancreas and prevents insulin production. The body needs insulin to transport glucose from the blood to the cells.
Synthetic insulin is used to manage type 1 diabetes, but it doesn work as quickly as human insulin.
Determining the right dose of insulin for a given meal carbohydrate content becomes an all-consuming balancing act.
as it allowed Evan some freedom from the typical type 1 diabetes regimen at day care.
because his life is disrupted far less by the demands of diabetes. We can mitigate most hyper
what we lost that day in August 2012 and blessed to know that my little boy diabetes has helped so many others.
This article originally appeared in print as IY Diabetes Remote Monitoring.
#Cheap Earthquake Warning Systems While predicting earthquakes remains a dream, scientists have developed early warning-systems systems that give people precious seconds to run out of buildings
#Diabetes Has a New Enemy: Robo-Pancreas The first great wonder drug was insulin, the blood-sugar-regulating hormone that was isolated in Canada nearly a century ago.
so those with the disease must work hard to mimic that organ function. If blood sugar goes too low,
and closed-loop systems that take over more of the diabetes management are in trials. Finally, everybody in the field agrees that a solution is nigh.
there a lot we can do to affect disease management. For instance, doctors could mine the data for patterns in which patients suffer from low blood sugar,
People with diabetes often carry a special pen charged with glucagon for others to use on them
But at a diabetes technology conference held in Paris this past February, funding organizations appeared to have doubled down on the simpler one-hormone system in the hope that it will get approved more easily.
As the millions of people with type 1 diabetes work out the kinks in the new technology,
it will spread to the hundreds of millions with type 2 diabetes, many of whom would also benefit from insulin
which greatly increases the risk of arthritis. The scaffold isn just a plastic shell, however.
#Kinsa Raises $9. 6m Series A For A Smart Thermometer That Tracks The Spread Of Illness Kinsa the company behind the world s first app-enabled FDA-approved smart thermometer
which lets Kinsa track the spread of illness at schools and in other small communities.
Having a record of fever with a feature to take notes on prescriptions and symptoms that are dated automatically gives doctors valuable information
Differentiation from the market mean of unlimited cloud-based storage is the new calculus for its niche.
if a cough is just a cold or something more serious, like pneumonia or asthma.
and Dr. Howard Shane who leads the Autism Language Program and the Center for Communication Enhancement at Boston Children Hospital.
After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
or developmental disabilities especially since only 15 states met the U s. Department of education basic standards for special needs education last year. t really a massive opportunity to help students with unique and diverse needs
or tapping in rhythm to test for Parkinson Disease. Users will decide how to share their data
They help people participate in tests for Parkinson, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and breast cancer. Apple Jeff Williams came out on stage today at the Apple Watch event to show off Researchkit.
The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
And the microphone can notice minute fluctuations in someone voice that may indicate Parkinson or another health problem.
to external factors gleaned by scraping public data such as weather info, disease seasonality and even local events
picking out new diseases as theye coming to the area so we can start helping different systems
and also to reproduce the functional and biochemical signals of diseases especially rare ones and those that make taking muscle biopsies difficult.
and it looks like it will be a real boon for researchers trying to figure out the effects of various diseases and drugs on the body.
#The 3d printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
see cataracts, and offer visual acuity tests as well as color and contrast tests. The project is led by Dr. Andrew Bastawrous
In a TED Talk, Dr. Bastawrous described his research into helping developing areas receive better eye care including the restoration of sight through cataract removal and prescription lenses.
The creators note that 80 percent of blindness worldwide is preventable but the tools necessary to address eye problems in the field are heavy, clumsy,
It also addresses color blindness through similar means. This is obviously not for consumers, but it will enable doctors
it will automatically send potential allergies and blood type info to first responders to help them properly handle your conditions.
Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
and if you have any eye conditions. You calibrate your screen by measuring a credit card and sync your phone as a remote control for your computer over Wi-fi and an SMS confirmation.
In the United states alone Tighe notes almost 20 percent of Americans will be older than 65 by 2030 making them more vulnerable to Alzheimer s cardiovascular disease and other age-associated conditions.
This device is aimed at treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. It consists of an implantable microregulator a wireless charger and the ipad prescription-pad application.
##As an example of how to manage the risks of including apps in connected systems Tighe cites the Verihaler which Sagentia has developed to monitor patient adherence to treatment for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.
In the United states alone Tighe notes almost 20 percent of Americans will be older than 65 by 2030 making them more vulnerable to Alzheimer s cardiovascular disease and other age-associated conditions.
This device is aimed at treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. It consists of an implantable microregulator a wireless charger and the ipad prescription-pad application.
##As an example of how to manage the risks of including apps in connected systems Tighe cites the Verihaler which Sagentia has developed to monitor patient adherence to treatment for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.
a world in which technology erases disability and in which the synthetic and biological worlds meld seamlessly.
and by lowering the energy costs of walking reduce joint stress and fatigue. But bringing bionic devices into the clinic is not easy.
Whereas brain-machine interfaces would require invasive surgery for brain implants he wants to connect electronic devices to the peripheral nerves at the site of the injury allowing people to control bionic limbs with their existing nerves
Indeed as artificial limbs become more powerful and functional they can sometimes be perceived as the opposite of a disability.
what her genes said about her chance of developing Alzheimer and heart disease. The report only delved into her genetic genealogy, possible relatives,
As science links these variants to disease risk, the idea has been that genotypes could predict your chance of getting cancer or heart disease
or lower, their risk for drug reactions, common diseases, or personality traits such as a lack of empathy.
Promethease makes little effort to combine the genetic risks for any one disease into a single comprehensible number.
if I had a high risk or genetic predisposition toward heart disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer. I don,
adding a link to a New yorker article that discussed the gene and its role in a rare childhood disease.
and Increase targeted tree plantings in neighborhoods with high asthma rates. Over four months 1436 respondents contributed over 30000 responses and 464 new ideas to the survey.
A sequencer this small might one day let police read off a genome from a spot of blood at a crime scene or permit doctors to pinpoint viruses in the midst of an epidemic.
#Gene-Silencing Drugs Finally Show Promise The disease starts with a feeling of increased clumsiness.
The disease is caused by malformed proteins produced in the liver so one treatment is a liver transplant.
and it only slows the disease down. Now after years of false starts and disappointment it looks like an audacious idea for helping these patients finally could work.
because it suggested a way to shut down the production of any protein in the body including those connected with diseases that couldn't be touched with ordinary drugs.
fight diseases like FAP by using RNAI to eliminate bad proteins (see The Prize of RNAI and Prescription RNA.
Alnylam has more than 11 drugs including ones for hemophilia Hepatitis b and even high cholesterol in its development pipeline and has three in human trials progress that led the pharmaceutical company Sanofi to make a $700 million investment in the company last winter.
The company tried a shortcut of injecting chemically modified RNA directly into diseased tissue for example into the retina to treat eye diseases.
The combination of low cost and ease-of-use is allowing Alnylam to go after more common diseases not just the rare ones that patients will go to great lengths to treat.
Because we ve made incredible improvements in the delivery strategy Meyers says we can now go after big diseases where we can treat millions of patients potentially.
he had been searching for the next great delivery mechanism one that could greatly expand the diseases that can be treated by RNAI.
Alnylam sees the potential for billions of dollars in revenue from liver-related diseases. Yet most diseases involve other tissues in the body.
Dahlman and his colleagues at MIT are some of the leaders in the next generation of RNAI delivery targeting delivery to places throughout the body.
which are associated with a wide variety of diseases. The studies showed that the method could be used to reduce tumor growth in lung cancer for example.
Treating cancer is one area where RNAI s particular advantages are expected to shine. Conventional chemotherapy affects more than just the target cancer cells it also hurts healthy tissue
which is why it makes people feel miserable. But RNAI can be extremely precise potentially shutting down only proteins found in cancer cells.
which could make cancer treatments far more effective. Lab work like this is far from fruition but if it maintains its momentum the drugs currently in clinical trials could represent just a small portion of the benefits of the discovery of RNAI i
Compared to the status quo of not getting vaccinations for life-threatening diseases mothers are not asking these questions
or treat brain injuries (see Nerve-Stimulating Implant Could Lower Blood pressure). But before we re all riddled with electronics researchers have to figure out how to power it all.
and a detail of a Vincent Van gogh self-portrait and applied algorithms that warped the image by taking into account the specific eye condition it was told to account for.
#More than A hundred Genetic Variants Tied to Schizophrenia To a large extent, schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders are caused illnesses by genes.
Now teams of scientists from research centers around the world, looking at the genetics of nearly 80,000 people, have worked together to identify 108 genetic loci associated with the disorder.
Researchers are finally beginning to gain some scientific understanding of many common brain disorders, including schizophrenia.
The lack of such understanding to date has meant there hasn been a true new breakthrough drug to treat these disorders in 50 years.
touted the results as a turning point in how we view brain disorders. ive years ago, we didn know a single gene related to these psychiatric diseases,
not a single pathway, said Eric Lander, Broad director. It was echoed a perspective by Steven Hyman, director of Broad Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research:
and even stress. And companies like Apple are hoping to become repositories for all this information,
but it can become essential for the millions living with chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and depression.
Families affected by Phelan-Mcdermid syndrome, a rare condition in which a deletion on chromosome 22 causes problems such as learning and memory deficits, are building a database of information from genomic tests, clinical medical records, extensive family surveys and histories,
That increasingly important as researchers begin to see connections between Phelan-Mcdermid, autism, and other conditions.
#Mathematicians Explain Why Social Epidemics Spread Faster in Some Countries Than Others Psychologists have puzzled always over why people in Sweden were slower to start smoking and slower to stop.
Treating smoking like an epidemic in this way finally reveals what going on. They say their results can explain the rate of change of smoking in various industrialized countries.
and researchers have been developing gene drive approaches to alter mosquitoes to slow the spread of malaria and dengue fever.
with the idea of releasing them in the wild to cause a population crash, thereby reducing malaria.
The U k. project will focus on people with cancer, as well as adults and children with rare diseases.
Because all Britons are members of the National Health service, the project expects to be able to compare DNA data with detailed centralized health records (see hy the U k. Wants a Genomic National Health service.
That is because for cancer patients Genomics England intends to obtain the sequence of both their inherited DNA as well as that of their cancers.
was linked to a 41 percent increase in the detection of invasive cancers as well as a 15 percent drop in the recall rate,
if they miss a cancer because they weren using tomosynthesis, they could end up being sued by someone who said,
but some researchers argue that the rate of false positives causes patients undue anxiety and creates a burden on the health system.
Such 2-D mammograms can create superimposed shadows that look like cancer, and they sometimes fail to detect cancer lesions behind normal tissue.
In tomosynthesis approved by the FDA in 2011, a series of x-ray images are taken in an arc across the breast,
and location of any abnormalities and judge whether the tumors are invasive. ight now the prohibitive issue is the costatients can afford to pay for this expensive technology,
or disease could change the impedance properties of the wearer wrist, requiring the device to be recalibrated,
and the stress this can put on the power grid. But Solar City believes that if building huge factories to produce advanced solar panels can bring down costs,
First Emotion-Reading Apps for Kids with Autism The first mobile apps that use emotion-reading software to help kids with autism are nearing release,
Though the early academic research focused on applications such as helping people with autism, so far the technology has been used commercially to help marketers understand
We started out with research on autism, and we went out and did this commercial stuff.
and apply it back to autism again. The advertising work helped make the software more accurate by rainingit
and borderline personality disorder. The project builds on expanding knowledge about how the brain works; the development of microlectronic systems that can fit in the body;
The U s. faces an epidemic of mental illness among veterans, including suicide rates three or four times that of the general public.
for Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies. e want to understand the brain networks in neuropsychiatric illness,
It is used to watch for epileptic seizures and then stop them with electrical pulses. Altogether, U s. doctors bill for about $2. 6 billion worth of neural stimulation devices a year, according to industry estimates.
says one aim could be to extinguish fear in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Fear is generated in the amygdala part of the brain involved in emotional memories.
like relaxation or anxiety, using implants he called timoceivers. But Delgado, also funded by the military,
Dougherty says a brain implant would only be considered for patients truly debilitated by mental illness, and who can be helped with drugs
#Genome Editing to Reverse Bubble Boy Syndrome Researchers used an emerging technique to correct the gene behind a fatal immune system disorder in an infant.
Genome editing technology is considered a promising new tool for curing disease. For decades gene therapy has meant that a virus delivers a functional copy of a gene that is dysfunctional in a patient.
Second, some diseases, such as Huntington can be treated this way because the broken copy of the gene causes harm.
researchers in Milan treated a condition known as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or SCID (this condition is referred sometimes to as ubble boy diseasebecause children afflicted may live in protected environments
because the risk of death from infectious disease is extremely likely). Children with this genetic condition have been treated with the additive gene therapy method in the past,
and some suffered leukemia-like diseases as a side effect (see he Glimmering Promise of Gene therapy.
#DNA-Based Research May have unveiled Long-Sought Diabetes Treatment A synthetic drug that controls blood sugar in obese mice demonstrates the potential of a DNA-dependent method for developing new chemical compounds.
By Susan Young Rojahn on May 23, 2014 WHY IT MATTERS The World health organization predicts that diabetes will be the seventh-leading cause of death by 2030.
and treat diabetes. Researchers have known long that the body carries an enzyme that breaks down insulin inside cells
and helps regulate the body response to sugars process that goes awry in type 2 diabetes.
Genetic studies have shown that people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to have mutations in the gene that encodes a protein called insulin-degrading enzyme, or IDE.
Patients with type 2 diabetes either have an insufficient amount of insulin in their blood
Researchers have speculated for decades that a drug that could inhibit IDE might help some type 2 diabetes patients.
or other protein known to be involved in a disease. Pharmaceutical companies may use robotics to test many chemical reactions in parallel.
The newly identified IDE inhibitor could be the starting point for developing a powerful new drug for type 2 diabetes.
#Nerve-Stimulating Implant Could Lower Blood pressure An implantable device that reduces blood pressure by stimulating a nerve in the neck could someday be an alternative to drugs for controlling hypertension.
Such implants might offer new hope to those with extreme hypertension. Up to 30 percent of people with high blood pressure cannot be treated fully with medication
Plachta says the procedure for implanting the device in humans would be similar to one used in an existing technique that uses vagal-nerve stimulation to treat epilepsy.
The president-elect of the American Society of Hypertension John Bisognano says the work is an impressive and promising application of recent advances in miniaturized electronics and microsurgery.
Bisognano a cardiologist who runs a resistant-hypertension clinic at the University of Rochester Medical center in New york knows well the need for more treatment options.
which means they are at high risk for stroke heart failure and kidney failure he says. Implanted electrical devices that control bodily functions have been used for many years.
but electrical devices are used also to control Parkinson s disease and experimentally some psychiatric conditions (see Brain Pacemakers
Whereas drugs cannot adapt to patient activities an intelligent implant can he says which could offer a way to treat hypertension on demand d
#Implant Lets Patients Regrow Lost Leg Muscle Five people who suffered serious leg injuries have been able to regrow muscle tissue in their legs thanks to a new regenerative medicine treatment.
two of these injuries were the result of IED blasts. The other two participants were injured in skiing accidents.
Each injury had taken between 60 and 90 percent of thigh muscle or lower leg muscles,
Although the body has a natural ability to regenerate some muscle after injury, extreme trauma can create gaps that are too large for normal processes to fill,
Such injuries which can be caused by motorcycle accidents, bomb blasts, and more, lead to debilitating condition with limited treatment options, says Andrés García,
The material is used widely as a passive structural support for abdominal wall hernias, breast reconstruction, and chest wall defects.
The researchers have started treating patients with upper body injuries, and are seeing similar results n
whether it for deep-brain stimulation in Parkinson disease, or retinal implants for the blind, there is already neural damage,
to prevent serious injury to humans (or worse), these robots are normally shut down when anyone enters their workspace.
in fact, a lot of what we know about cancer genetics comes from research on our fungal friends.
and more (see icrobes Can Mass-produce Malaria Drugand iofuel Plant Opens in Brazil. The report of the first artificial, designer yeast chromosome suggests ways for researchers to produce new chemicals in the microbes
She not being paranoid. Documents leaked last June by former U s. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed a global surveillance operation coördinated by the U s. National security agency and its counterpart in Britain
or Streptococcus pneumonia survived and showed no signs of toxicity pleasant surprise to Lewis and his colleagues.
That the antibiotic can kill M. tuberculosis s a major breakthrough because it is virtually certain to be effective for the multi-resistant strains that are now all but impossible to treat,
said Gerard Wright, director of the Institute for Infectious disease Research at Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada,
drug like this must be reserved for serious diseases and not given to general practitioners to spread around like aspirin
Scientists have uncovered how human immune cells remember previously encountered strains of influenza, a discovery that may pave the way for a single universal flu shot to immunize people for their entire lives.
but we knew we had come face-to-face with a potential pandemic that could kill millions of people around the world
These findings lead to the potential of moving from vaccines for specific influenza strains towards developing a protection,
we're talking about a history-altering event on the Spanish flu scale. As it turns out,
"Our extraordinary breakthrough could lead to the development of a vaccine component that can protect against all new influenza viruses, with the potential for future development of a one-off universal flu vaccine shot,
scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) have reported clinical evidence supporting the role of a novel biomarker in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers claim that those suffering from the disease have reduced GSH as compared to the healthy individuals."
Also, it can help predict the disease much before its onset, "said Dr Pravat Mandal, a professor at NBRC and associate professor (adjunct) at the John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA.
"Several animal studies conducted at NBRC have showed the utility of this biomarker in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease previously also.
a region of the brain, yielded 100%specificity and sensitivity for distinguishing Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls."
"We propose that estimation of GSH affords a crucial noninvasive measure of Alzheimer's disease progression that could
not only provide clinical insight about the disease's pathophysiology but also expedite the drug development process,
Alzheimer's is one of the common brain disorders that affects nearly 35 million people worldwide. By 2050, experts said,
about one in 85 individuals over the age of 65 years will suffer from the disease s
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