“Though 23andMe gets the consent of its customers to use their genetic data, it’s unlikely that most people are aware of this.”
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/63173-23andme-partnership-glaxosmithkline.html
“At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet.”
“In the only human tests, mitochondrial transplants appear to revive and restore heart muscle in infants that was injured in operations to repair congenital heart defects.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html
“Treatment with engineered white cells, called immunotherapy, has been limited because of the difficulty of making viruses to carry the genetic material and the time needed to create them. But researchers now say they have a found a way to use electrical fields, not viruses, to deliver both gene-editing tools and new genetic material into the cell. By speeding the process, in theory a treatment could be available to patients with almost any type of cancer.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/health/gene-editing-cancer.html
“These two studies, while preliminary, contribute to a growing body of evidence that psychedelic drugs like ayahuasca, LSD and mushrooms can help people with difficult-to-treat depression.”
Read more: https://theconversation.com/amazonian-psychedelic-may-ease-severe-depression-new-study-shows-98814
“Most of the psychedelics tested, the researchers found, promoted the growth of new dendrites from a neuron cell, which help transmit information from other neurons to the cell, as well as increased the density of small protrusions on these dendrites, known as dendritic spines. They also jumpstarted the growth of new connections, or synapses, between individual neurons.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-drugs-may-help-the-brain-repair-itself-stu-1826765205
“The findings support the idea that marijuana is an ‘exit drug,’ rather than a ‘gateway drug,’ as drug warriors used to claim.”
Read more: https://herb.co/marijuana/news/cbd-treat-addiction
“If you live in the industrialized world, you probably can’t pass B. infantis on to your baby. Not even if you give birth vaginally, breast-feed exclusively and eat well.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/babies-bacteria-breastfeeding-formula.html
“Now, physicians are eager to analyse faecal samples from their patients in the hope of predicting who is likely to respond to anticancer drugs.”
Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05208-8
“Tryptamines, DMT and magic mushrooms, amphetamines, including MDMA, and ergolines, like LSD consistently boosted brain connections.”
