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Friday, March 29, 2024

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Recent findings by a group of Scientists from the Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have taken the Scientific World by storm, and this has raised numerous questions about the findings, and the potential uses and abuses.

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This discovery will allow gay men to create an egg of their own, not having to use a donated egg from a female donor, thereby allowing creation of a child born with both parents DNA, not just the DNA of one of the men and the DNA from the egg donor, as is currently the case. This finding has the potential to invigorate the LGBT community, and whispers of it's use in this manner are already beginning.

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Every year millions of people are diagnosed with cancer worldwide. Although modern medicine has made huge progress in treating this disease, what often happens is that the cancer is treated and the patient goes into remission or is even "cured" – but then it becomes a waiting game to see if the cancer comes back.  Imagine if there was a new treatment option that would stop cancer from returning. An Israeli medical team is attempting to do just that, to offer a new treatment with the potential for long-term maintenance – to stop the cancer from coming back.

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Vaxil is a clinical stage biotechnology company based in Israel which develops therapeutic vaccines to treat cancer and infectious diseases.

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Dr Eric Topol was named #1 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare."While others debate arcane legal points and the philosophical slippery slopes pertaining to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Topol instead writes about how 'a propitious convergence of a maturing Internet, ever-increasing bandwidth, near-ubiquitous connectivity, and remarkable miniature pocket computers in the form of mobile phones' are taking physicians and patients where no one has gone before."    Modern Healthcare

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Dr Eric Topol explains: "The main thing is that there are these remarkable new tools that are hyperinnovative. People are already putting data on social networks, comparing genomic data and competing for the best quality sleep, best blood glucose. It will really take off if consumers are driving this via the power of their social networks. This radical transformation to a higher plateau of medicine is inevitable."

Apps for Medical Diagnosis

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Humanity has landed robots on Mars and invented technologies capable of building materials from atoms up. But when exploring the iciest continent on Earth, humans are often surprisingly low-tech.

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Deep furrows on Antarctica's floating ice shelves mark arch-shaped channels melted out under the ice. Thinner ice floats lower, and researchers can read the corrugated surface topography like a map that mirrors what lies beneath.  Now, a new study published Oct. 6,2013  in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that in some spots, these surface scars also signal where water drains from beneath Antarctica's giant ice sheets. "These features on the ice shelf are very long, so it suggests the water is flowing quite steadily and consistently over time," said Anne Le Brocq, lead study author and a glaciologist at the University of Exeter in England. 

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Foot cream causes HIV-infected cells to 'commit suicide,' study says.  Ciclopirox, an anti-fungal medicine, eradicated the AIDS-causing virus from cell cultures by shutting down the cell's 'powerhouse,' according to researchers from Rutgers' New Jersey Medical School. The method still has to undergo clinical tests on humans, but experts say the fact that it's already FDA-approved may speed up the process.

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A cream often prescribed to treat nail fungus could have a revolutionary secondary use.  Ciclopirox, a topical anti-fungal drug, was found to eradicate HIV from infected cell cultures, according to a new study.