Eat wisely.

Originally shared by Bio E

Eat wisely.



#health #healthtip #organic #food #gut #biogenicsmd #facts #run #yoga #diet #vegetables #vegetarian #diet #gmo #pesticides #gmofree #vegetarian #gut #medicine #pharmaceutical

A New Technique Transforms Human Skin into Brain Cells #future #technology #health #medicine

Originally shared by The Futurist

A New Technique Transforms Human Skin into Brain Cells #future #technology #health #medicine
http://www.thefuturist.co/a-new-technique-transforms-human-skin-into-brain-cells/

One of the biggest challenges in cancer therapy is being able to sufficiently deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumors...

Originally shared by Cosimo Scarpa

One of the biggest challenges in cancer therapy is being able to sufficiently deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumors without exposing healthy tissues to their toxic effects. Magnetic bacteria are a promising vehicle for more efficiently delivering tumor-fighting drugs, researchers have demonstrated.

#cancer #medicine #bacteria
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160922093326.htm

Neurotransmission also called synaptic transmission, is the process by which signaling molecules called...

Originally shared by Corina Marinescu

Neurotransmission also called synaptic transmission, is the process by which signaling molecules called neurotransmitters are released by a neuron (the presynaptic neuron), and bind to and activate the receptors of another neuron (the postsynaptic neuron). Neurotransmission is essential for the process of communication between two neurons.

In 1921, an Austrian scientist named Otto Loewi discovered the first neurotransmitter.  In his experiment he used two frog hearts. One heart (heart #1) was still connected to the vagus nerve. Heart #1 was placed in a chamber that was filled with saline. This chamber was connected to a second chamber that contained heart #2. So, fluid from chamber #1 was allowed to flow into chamber #2.

Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve (which was attached to heart #1) caused heart #1 to slow down. Loewi also observed that after a delay, heart #2 also slowed down. From this experiment, Loewi hypothesized that electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve released a chemical into the fluid of chamber #1 that flowed into chamber #2. He called this chemical "Vagusstoff". We now know this chemical as the neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.

The Chemical Transmission of Nerve Action - Read & Learn:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1936/loewi-lecture.html

Neurons, Synapses, Action Potentials, and Neurotransmission - Read & Learn:
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/neurons_intro/neurons_intro.php

#neuroscience   #neurotransmission   #medicine   #brain   #synapse

#water #wasser #hormones #medicine

#water #wasser #hormones #medicine
http://m.lifeline.de/news/ernaehrung-und-fitness/unsichtbare-gefahr-medikamenten-mix-im-trinkwasser-id137082.html

Cytotoxic T cells

Originally shared by Corina Marinescu

Cytotoxic T cells
A cytotoxic T cell  is a T lymphocyte (a type of white blood cell) that kills cancer cells, cells that are infected (particularly with viruses), or cells that are damaged in other ways.

There are billions of T cells within our blood – one teaspoon full of blood alone is believed to have around 5 million T cells, each measuring around 10 micrometres in length, about a tenth the width of a human hair. Each cell is engaged in the ferocious and unrelenting battle to keep us healthy.

The cells, seen in the animation as orange or green amorphous ‘blobs’ move around rapidly, investigating their environment as they travel. When a cytotoxic T cell finds an infected cell or, in the case of the animation, a cancer cell (blue), membrane protrusions rapidly explore the surface of the cell, checking for tell-tale signs that this is an uninvited guest.

The T cell binds to the cancer cell and injects poisonous proteins known as cytotoxins (red) down special pathways called microtubules to the interface between the T cell and the cancer cell, before puncturing the surface of the cancer cell and delivering its deadly cargo.

Source:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bodys-serial-killers-captured-on-film-destroying-cancer-cells#sthash.6UhIhxZr.dpuf

Animation:
The time-lapse footage was created by stitching together microscopic slices of the killer cells and their quarry, according to a written statement released by the University of Cambridge. It shows T cells (orange or green blobs) encountering cancer cells (blue blobs) and injecting them with lethal proteins known as cytotoxins (red).

Paper:
http://www.cell.com/immunity/abstract/S1074-7613%2815%2900173-9

Article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/t-cell-video-killers-video_n_7298828.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000030

#cancer   #medicine   #Tcells

This Week in Technology

Originally shared by Andrij “Andrew” Harasewych

This Week in Technology
3D printed rockets, portable laser weapons, virtual world creator, Mag-lev train speed record, cheaper genetic testing for cancers, iris recognition systems and more!  http://www.futurism.co/tech-weekly/

3D Printed Rocket: http://www.realtechtoday.com/technology/the-first-3d-printed-rocket-will-launched-soon/

Tactical Laser Weapon: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/tactical-laser-weapon-module-can-laserify-almost-anything

Creating Virtual Worlds from Text: http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/122725_en.html

Japanese Maglev Train: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32391020

Breast Cancer Testing: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/04/21/start-up-pledges-to-cut-cost-of-breast-cancer-genetic-testing-from-4000-to-249/

Iris Recognition: http://www.biometricupdate.com/201504/carnegie-mellon-researchers-developing-long-range-iris-recognition-solution

#ScienceSunday   #Science #Technology #Tech #3DPrinting #Weapons #Lasers #VR #Muse #ProjectMuse #MagLev #Japan #BreastCancer #OvarianCancer #Genetics #health #medicine #biometrics

#health

#health

Originally shared by Ivan Raszl

Learned of an interesting story about melanoma, an aggressive cancer that scientists almost gave up on as nothing worked against it. Then, thanks to genetic sequencing they found a gene called BRAF, that is responsible for the uncontrollable cell growth. Now, scientists could create a pill that inhibited the operation of this gene, and unlike other therapies it only affected the cancer. Bodies riddled with cancer were cleaned up within weeks of starting to take the medication.

Watching: Nova - Cracking your genetic code
#science   #medicine

#health

#health  

Originally shared by arshath zameek

Don't get wet!! you'll catch a cold!

This is something that every one of us have heard and also maybe used on are children, siblings etc. But does it actually happen? do you actually catch a cold by getting wet? by sleeping with wet hair? walking in the cold?

Being cold and wet does not cause colds. Cold is caused by a virus. There are many viruses which cause the cold, but the biggest culprit is the "rhinovirus". You need to be exposed to this micro organism to get a cold! 

The infection is spread when you inhale the droplets containing the virus that are coughed out by a patient. That is why it is important to cover your mouth while coughing to prevent the virus from spreading the disease to others.  Viruses also can live on sinks, counters and other surfaces, which means you can catch a cold if you touch an object that was recently handled by someone with a cold, and then put your hands on your nose or mouth.

Going out in the cold can make you susceptible for the disease due to the humidity (which is less) of the cold weather. This causes the drying of the mucus lining of the nasal passages making the virus to easily get into your body. 

So yeah..go ahead an have an ice cream in the rain now :) 
#sciencesunday   #medicine   #microbiology     #sciencesunday  

#cyborg #eyeborg #synesthesia #health #art #medicine

#cyborg   #eyeborg   #synesthesia   #health   #art   #medicine  

Originally shared by Sakis Koukouvis

Cyborg makes art using seventh sense
 
Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey. So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an “eyeborg”, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound. Harbisson’s art sounds like a kind of inverse synaesthesia. But where synaesthetes experience numbers or letters as colours or even “taste” words, for example, Harbisson’s art is down to a precise transposition of colour into sound frequencies. As a result, he is able to create facial portraits purely out of sound, and he can tell you that the colour of Mozart’s music is mostly yellow. Liz Else caught up with him at the TEDGlobal conference.
http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news/p/2092178655/cyborg-makes-art-using-seventh-sense