Medicine
Ozempic Drug May Add Addiction Treatment To Its Growing List Of Uses
Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Nov, 2023
by Alex Muller
Semaglutide was associated with a decrease in drug and alcohol consumption, and anecdotally, many patients taking the drug report a decrease in the urge to drink.
Speed Counts When Walking To Beat Diabetes, Says New Study
Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Nov, 2023
by Alex Muller
"While current strategies to increase total walking time are beneficial, it may also be reasonable to encourage people to walk at faster speeds to further increase the health benefits of walking."
Zombie Cells Have A Weakness. An Experimental Anti-Aging Therapy Exploits It.
Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Nov, 2023
by Alex Muller
It's a promising alternative to existing methods for wiping out senescent cells.
An AI Tool Just Revealed Almost 200 New Systems For CRISPR Gene Editing
Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Nov, 2023
by Alex Muller
This month, a team at MIT and Harvard led by CRISPR pioneer Dr. Feng Zhang took inspiration from an existing big-data approach and used AI to narrow the sea of genetic sequences to a handful that are similar to known CRISPR systems.
'Breakthrough' CRISPR Treatment Slashes Cholesterol In First Human Clinical Trial
Posted in Medicine, Science on 24th Nov, 2023
by Alex Muller
For these treatments, scientists extract immune cells or blood cells from the body, edit the cells using CRISPR to correct the genetic mistake, and reinfuse the treated cells into the patient.