which includes the company's Bio-PDFO, Sorona, Omega-3, biosurfaces and biomedical products; and biofuels,
The work was published in British Medical Journal Open last week. Â Via New Scientist Image:
and abusing arsenic for everything from mining to medicine to murder. But a gene found in an ancient plant,
Radha Kali, 42, said that for generations her community has survived on forest products like  tendu  leaves that are used for making  beedis  and  mahuwa  flowers with medicinal properties.
I started writing about biomedical tech, I figured ipads in hospitals would be the story to follow.
However, the company walks a fine line in the medical arena. The Food and Drug Administration seems set on regulating the software that runs on the ipad, not the device itself,
but if the FDA were to decide that Apple is marketing the ipad for regulated medical uses,
and a half per day â oe time that would otherwise be spent on collecting paper printouts of medical images
Why have a guy like Afhsad Mistri spending his days talking to doctors and medical software developers?
The answer might have to do with the late Steve jobs. People in computer science are interested always in medical imaging,
but something medical might actually change the world. From NPR and Wired. Image:
Is growing vegetables from sewer water the next big thing in reuse? Brinjal, papaya, snake-gourd and black sugarcane are just a few of the crops Keshav Tavre grows on his suburban plot on the outskirts of Mumbai--all of it from a supply of untreated sewage that snakes past his land.
There is tremendous potential to produce malaria vaccines and other types of medicines, especially for Third world countries.
or dentists, teaching them how to take care of these needs for their own people. That's really what we're doing.
Mass producing medicines in GM plants uses lower-cost tech than those of biopharmaceuticals made in huge stainless steel fermentation vats containing bacteria or mammalian cells.
The biotech medicine is the first plant-produced antibody to be greenlit for clinical testing by Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Agency.
But about a week ago, a new review in The british Medical Journal contradicts this guidance,
If 90%of US families breastfed exclusively for 6 months, the country would annually save $13 billion from reduced medical and other costs.
Neon pigs raised to lower our healthcare billsscientists from Japan are seeking ways to make medicine cheaper,
which can be reared to create cost-efficient medicine. For example, anticoagulant ATRYN is produced in the milk of genetically modified goats
researchers estimated this year in The british Medical Journal that, Currently, suboptimal breastfeeding is associated with over a million deaths each year and 10%of the global disease burden in children.
Consider the epidemiology that was going on in China at the time and compare it with H5n1
I also connected with different government agencies like the FDA and USDA, Institute of Medicine and the World health organization.
A lot of people talk about the tree of life from the medicinal perspective. But for me it's this whole notion of understanding who we are
a decline. â Â The Institute of Medicine reported that if other communities followed the lead of the most successful cities and states,
Radiation serves us broadly in the medical field, both as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.
In fact we are currently enduring a shortage of medical isotopes, which we could rectify if we had more nuclear reactors from
It can provide clean power and medical miracles. Let it spread its wings. Updated Jan 29 around 10:05 a m. PST adding reference to alternative nuclear's improved waste managementcover photo of Half Dome at Yosemite is from Diliff via Wikimediathe land of milk and honey-and radiation:
I decided to test mixtures of medicinal herbal extracts, as these have had a long history of success in Chinese
and Indian traditional medicine and are known to have a wide spectrum of positive effects in humans.
and metabolic potential (known factors in driving aging) along with a positive effect on longevity genes and a proven history of use in traditional herbal medicine to treat a wide spectrum of diseases.
or Western medicine based on its long term traditional use and data indicating that the herbal extract can target multiple longevity genes identified by Genescient or by other research groups.
In Chinese traditional medicine, Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi) appeared to be the best Chinese herb because of its many traditional uses
%In traditional Chinese medicine astragalus is considered a true tonic that can strengthen debilitated patients and increase resistance to disease in general.
In western herbal medicine Astragalus root is used to enhance immunity and to help in wound healing.
In looking for the best herb in the Indian Ayurvedic medicinal tradition, I soon focused on the potent antidiabetic herb, Pterocarpus marsupium.
As an herbal medicine, Pterocarpus marsupium is popular in India for its diverse health benefits. Besides diabetes, the herb is reported also to cure a wide spectrum of ailments like skin diseases, fractures, bruises, constipation, hemorrhages, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Having selected two of the biggest stars in the traditional herbal medicines of China and India
In this case, pine bark proanthocyanidins stand out as the best wide-spectrum herbal extracts in the Western herbal medicine tradition.
Scientists behind the project have cultured also stem cells from other plants with medical applications, indicating that the technique could be used to manufacture other important pharmaceuticals besides paclitaxel.
"Plants are a rich source of medicine around one in four drugs in use today is derived from plants.
Futurist Fixes 1. Telemedicine and Robotic Surgery. As originally covered in the FUTURIST: Allison Okamura of the Johns hopkins university Department of Mechanical engineering says the real potential of robotic surgery
or rather computer-enhanced surgery is to reduce the impact of surgeries (make them less invasive,
less costly) and improve patients health. Haptic systems are a particularly promising area of research in the field of robotics.
This sort of research will enable surgeons to better perform minimally invasive surgeries. Surgical robots can also photograph,
survey and collect data in ways that humans cannot and give surgeons a better sense of how the operation went,
after the fact. oewhen you do assisted robot surgery, you re already tracking the tools that are inside the patient,
A Hawaiian heart doctor named Benjamin Berg dictated a complicated surgery over an Internet feed for a Guam man located 3, 500 miles away.
But, as geneticist and open-source medicine evangelist Andrew Hessel wrote in the January-February 2010 issue of THE FUTURIST, oethanks to rapidly moving technologies like synthetic biology,
Tehran plans accordingly further medical experiments that will ultimately lead to a treatment for stroke patients.
With the cloning of animals advances in medical research are connected, including the production of antibodies against various diseases,
a biomedical engineer at Harvard, realized that his idea remained just an idea thanks in large part to the whims of the pharmaceutical market. oein a world where things are changing so rapidly, Ã la Facebook,
There at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, Dr. Carrel conducted a unique experiment when in 1912 he cultivated tissues from an embryo chicken heart.
and medicine might lead to an increase or loss of biodiversity. The framing paper for the conference was oehow will synthetic biology
medical drugs and devices, over-the-counter medicine, clinical therapies, etc. This field has taken on a life of its own due to economic incentives:
and cell therapies, enable regenerative medicine, or make cancer cells self-destruct. The potential seems limitless.
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