Medical Advances & Procedures
Michio Kaku discusses the real possibility of eternal youth. Today we have two kinds of immortality: digital immortality and genetic/biologic immortality. #eternalyouth
Thanks to the continuous development of the medical industry, unbelievable medical procedures are now possible for the world to take advantage of. Check out this infographic.
Researchers at the Institute of Life in Athens, Greece, announced April 9 that medical history had been made with the birth of a healthy baby boy to a 32-year-old woman who had experienced several failed cycles of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The boy was born with DNA from three different parents.
Physicist Nassim Haramein talks “brainlessness,” #consciousness and how it’s possible to think and function without a brain (something to THINK about!)
Scientists in Israel say a cure for cancer is only a year away. Could it really be true?
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has uncovered why some people that have brain markers of Alzheimer’s never develop the classic dementia that others do. The study is now available in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, affects more than 5 million Americans. People suffering from Alzheimer’s develop a buildup of two proteins that impair communications between nerve cells in the brain — plaques made of amyloid beta proteins and neurofibrillary tangles made of tau proteins.
We’re dealing with a controversial topic here, one that has some scientists reprimanded for going against it in some cases. This theory [of evolution] is really being pushed hard on the scientific community, which could be the reason why these scientists chose to voice their concern in such a manner. It’s being taught, in some cases, in schools as fact.
Steven Kotler explains the neurochemical changes during flow states that strengthen motivation, creativity and learning. “The brain produces a giant cascade of neurochemistry. You get norepinephrine, dopamine, anandamide, serotonin and endorphins. All five of these are performance enhancing neurochemicals.
Bright light therapy has a proven track record of success in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), commonly referred to as the winter blues. A new study from the University of British Columbia shows that this simple and safe therapy is effective for non-seasonal major depression. In fact, researchers showed light therapy was much more effective than fluoxetine (Prozac).
Everyone knows spinach is good for you, but did you know that spinach may one day be the carrier for transplanting heart muscle to heart attach patients? Check out this fascinating research!
Google has a health division called Verily. It is the result of an undertaking that began in 2014 as Google Life Sciences and has become one of the company’s most intricate and far-reaching endeavors. None more so than the specific mission to predict future illness. Verily’s bold mission has now been given a name: Project Baseline.
In the 1980s scientist, Benjamin Libet conducted an experiment. He ‘discovered’ that what seems to be free will or the conscious choice to do or not do something is really just the observance of something that has already happened. This completely rocked the foundations of what most thought of as a prerequisite for being human and the long-held religious view that free will must always be honored.
There are some undeniable points to be made about a drug, or an implant, that can enhance intelligence: If people have the choice to enhance their mental abilities with medication or an implant, what does that mean for society? Because if we all have access to the same enhancement, would it be an enhancement, or a new reality?
Researchers at Duke University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio looked specifically at this second phenomenon in a longitudinal neuroimaging study of adolescents, in order to better understand how early life stress contributes to depression.
Scientists at Harvard and Northwestern University developed a new cancer test can predict with 100 percent accuracy whether someone will develop cancer up to thirteen years in the future. The technology studies the pattern of telomere growth as a predictive biomarker for cancer. Could knowing this information allow people to make lifestyle changes to lower their risk, and how would it affect health insurance policies?
