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In just a few years, our pal Whiskey might have an even snazzier way to get a replacement if he ever needs it again.
That’s if Susmita Bose and her team at Washington State University have anything to say about it.
-Because they’ve successfully hacked an inkjet printer into a 3D Bone-Scaffold Fab.
They can take just about any CAD file and have the machine spray repeated passes of plastic fixative down onto the calcium phosphate base material and then…
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Whiskey The Dog is a four-legged test-pilot for the future of skeletal biotech.
He’d gotten sick and needed some work on his jaw.
But rather than just go the standard route where things never quite return to normal, Drs. Huey, Arzi and Verstraete at UC Davis came up with a new experiment to try on Whiskey and 7 of his closest friends.
Using some titanium brackets, a hard-sponge-bone-scaffold and special proteins, they were able to fill in a full 2-inch-long gap in his jaw.
Within 3 months…
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Scientists had previously assumed only 23,000, or ~2%, of our approximately 3 Billion genes are functional at all,
Because of their active involvement in protein synthesis.
-Which drew the appropriate snort of derision from one Dr. Charles Xavier.
Well the ENCODE project just blew that number right out of the water.
It’s looking more like 80% of the genome is involved in one way or another, especially in a supervisory role. Some of the genes may not be coding proteins themselves directly, but…
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At first, I thought it was about madcap nootropic brain improvement experiments. But no,
Girl goes speaking-in-tongues crazy, House-like doctor tries arcane unconventional solution, girl saved from continued madness and impending death.
Sounds pretty good!…
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It’s probably something similar to the research showing both black and green tea affect enzymes involved in Alzheimer’s,
but Yun Bai and his team at the Third Military Medical University in China have found that the chief polyphenol in Green Tea, called EGCG, helps new brain cells grow in a central region crucial to the brain’s ability to adapt to change.
+and also navigate mazes…
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CiCi’s All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet-buzzkilling researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered both an interesting and depressing quirk about a particular fat-fighting type of cell in the body.
Their potency to regulate obesity goes down the fatter you get. Oh; And then it just quits.
It turns out these cells, called INKTs, help keep most people from getting obese.
But there comes a tipping-point, where they just seem to stop and teir efficacy then approaches zero; However…
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-Ok, I just made that product name up. But it’s a good one, eh?
Anyway, the ultimate use for this treatment will probably be limited to plastic-surgery spot-improvements,
But Dr. Ouliana Ziouzenkova of Ohio State University and her team have come up with an injectable substance that remodels fatty tissue, ~dissolving it in a way.
What it does is to use a very unique type…
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And on the Running theme, anyone who’s had a joint issue for whatever reason, can attest to how hard it is to get back on your feet.
Well, buck up little camper, Because: Science!
By synthesizing a new combination-gel that unites two different types, that then absorb calcium molecules, scientists at Harvard have come up with what they think might be a pretty good Replacement for Cartilage…
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