Showing posts with label medical research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical research. Show all posts
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Organs on a Chip

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Quinton Smith, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at one of the colleges I attended, the University of Califor...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Blood as a Youth Potion

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Could techniques that restore markers of youth to old mice have any effect on human subjects? Blood Transfusion Experiment in Mice Cellu...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Artificial Blood

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Here's an article about an artificial blood substitute being developed by a research physician from the University of Maryland School of...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Quest for Longevity

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The cover story of the January 2023 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, a 35-page article titled "The Science of Living Longer and Better," explo...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Animal Regeneration

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Here's an article about sea slugs that purposely decapitate themselves: Decapitated Sea Slugs It's believed they occasionally ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Anticipating Androids

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In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein apparently constructed his creature by stitching together parts of cadavers. (His first-per...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

3D-Printed Organs

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3D printing is now being used as an aid to cardiac surgery. The printers don't yet make actual replacement hearts. What they do is use i...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Beliefs, Facts, and Action

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Sometimes it doesn't matter whether one has accurate beliefs about facts as long as one's beliefs have a correct or useful effect in...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

Trusting the Experts

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I'm rereading FOR HER OWN GOOD: TWO CENTURIES OF THE EXPERTS' ADVICE TO WOMEN, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English (actually,...
Thursday, October 06, 2016

Good Out of Evil?

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In Barbara Hambly's CRIMSON ANGEL (which I reread last week), the protagonist of the series, Benjamin January, a free colored resident o...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Unintended Consequences

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I recently saw an article about wildfires in Oregon, which are much worse than they would have been naturally because of the conscientious e...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Latest Cyborg Leap Forward

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Medical researchers at Ohio State University have invented a device called NeuroLife, which enables a quadriplegic to move his hand: Brain...