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Infographic: The Healing Power Of Cats

Filed Under: Aging, Disease

Infographic: The Healing Power Of Cats
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Not Just For LOLs:
And now as a reward for surviving tax season, I give you: The Healing Power Of Cats!

While she may put the benefits down to just purring, infographic artist Gemma Busquets is still on the right track.

Several health benefits have been attributed to general pet ownership. For Example: slightly reducing your stress for next tax season by saving you money.

-Because you’ll have to visit the doctor a total of 4% less than a dog owner, and 12% less than someone without a pet. And speaking of health benefits…

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Science Moves 1 Step Closer To A Surgery-Free Future. This Time: Eye Drops That Fix Cataracts

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

Science Moves 1 Step Closer To A Surgery-Free Future. This Time: Eye Drops That Fix Cataracts
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Though this discovery was originally aimed at the developing world, it might just turn around & George Jetson the hell out of a tricky surgical procedure.

What happens with a cataract is that some of the proteins in the lens go a bit wacky over time.

And these changes make them stop working the way they’re supposed to.

Since the standard fix is a bit iffy to have done in low-tech facilities, the researchers thought, “What if we could take that operation and put it in a bottle?”…

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Sweet Engineering Tricks Make 3D-Printed Bone Replacements Better, Healthier And Cheaper. -The Bees’ Knees, Actually.

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

Sweet Engineering Tricks Make 3D-Printed Bone Replacements Better, Healthier And Cheaper. -The Bees’ Knees, Actually.
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Awhile back, we told you about the amazing 3D-Printed bones designed by Dr. Susmita Bose.

Since then, there’s been another development that will add to the final consumer product, just like the 3D-Blueprinting side we saw from the guys who put the motorcyclist back together.

–What Dr. Richard Oreffo’s team did was to research all different kinds of Materials, Composites, Plastics, Minerals and many different kinds of Shapes & Layouts. -And they arrived at something really interesting…

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You Are Now Wolverine: Artificial Nanoparticle Wound-Healers Invented

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

You Are Now Wolverine: Artificial Nanoparticle Wound-Healers Invented
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One of the problems facing doctors, non-dolphins, and mothers of children who drink the Red Bull and yell, “Hey Y’all, Watch This!” on YouTube, is controlling blood-flow or even stopping a full-on hemorrhage at a wound.

Well that just might be a thing of the past, as UCSB docs have come up with super-small, nanoscale particles that act just like human blood-clotting agents.

 
Since they didn’t want to completely re-invent the wheel, the little particles are almost an exact copy of Mother Nature’s invention…

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UT Team Figures Out How To ‘Glue’ Injured Nerves Back Together

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain

UT Team Figures Out How To ‘Glue’ Injured Nerves Back Together
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Nerve injuries of all types are terrible events for anyone experiencing them.

And the outlook is generally-poor, because we really don’t heal as well as Dr. Connors in The Amazing Spiderman.

So George Bittner’s UT team has come up with the obvious solution: Turn people into crocodiles.

They soon discovered that was really hard to do. So for the time being, they came up with a workaround: Stop the ‘scarring’ process & get things back together…

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3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead

Filed Under: Bio-Tech

3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead
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Awhile ago Stephen Power, like many unfortunate motorcyclists, got into a very serious wreck.

He didn’t die.

-But he Did break: both arms, both cheek bones, both eye-sockets, his upper jaw, his right leg so badly it needed a bone-graft, and for the hat-trick he also managed to crack his skull.

So OK, not good.

 
But, before they decided to give 3D-reconstruction-wizard Susmita Bose a run for her money, his frankly-heroic surgeons…

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Crafty Researchers Cast Blood Vessels Into 3D Printed Replacement Organs

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Disease

Crafty Researchers Cast Blood Vessels Into 3D Printed Replacement Organs
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The interesting intersection between the ‘Old’ and New sciences of Stem Cells and 3D-Printing is starting to provide some amazing developments in both Life-Extension and Replacement-Parts.

The well-known windpipe-replacement is also one of the bigger successes in that category as of late.

 
*However, to make these things Truly Useful, there are still quite a few obstacles to overcome.

-And now, Make that quite a few, -Minus One.

 
Jennifer Lawrence Lewis and her team have come up with quite an ingenious…

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