Share: Psychedelics Show Promise for Mental Health Disorders Until recently, psychedelics, specifically psilocin from mushrooms and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), were limited to recreational use with no medicinal benefit. Currently, psychedelics are showing promise in clinical trials as therapeutic strategies for mental health disorders. While scientists understand the serotonergic modulation these drugs elicit in the […]
Share: Promising Results Shown for CRISPR CRISPR has shown promising results in preliminary clinical studies to correct sickle cell disease and treat blindness, transthyretin amyloidosis, and hereditary angioedema. A new study in collaboration with University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children investigated the potential feasibility of base-edited CD7-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (BE-CAR7) […]
Share: The US FDA no longer requires animal testing for drug approval. For over 80 years, the FDA has required extensive animal testing to approve drugs before being brought to the public market. In late December 2022, Joe Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriation Act that eliminated the need for animal testing before a […]
Share: CRISPR gene editing offers a potential alternative. A new study by Intellia Therapeutics aims to treat hereditary angioedema using CRISPR technology. Bradykinin is responsible for vascular permeability, where significant increases in bradykinin caused by stress, illness, or trauma leads to severe, painful, and life-threatening swelling. The molecular mechanisms that drive the angioedema seen in […]
Share: In Vitro Neurons Learn and Exhibit Sentience Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been touted as the next revolution in deep machine learning and the solution to solving mathematical equations that have perplexed mathematicians and physicists for decades. While the computing power of AI is staggering, being able to perform millions, if not billions, of […]
Share: The CORD7 Mutation Found in Humans Increases Verbal IQ and Working Memory Intelligence in its rawest form is not equally distributed among the human population. While many can critically think and problem solve, others lack these skillsets. However, what is known is that just like height, eye color, and the shape of our nose, […]
Share: Wetware, the integration of human and machine, computer and neuronal circuits combined seamlessly to enhance and control the electronic world around us; to some, it is the essence of science fiction. In 1995 Hollywood produced a dystopian cyberpunk spin on wetware with the release of Johnny Mnemonic, played by Keanu Reeves, and portrayed a […]
Share: April 27,1987 The mouse was given to the world! On April 27, 1981, an invention was introduced that forever changed how we interact with our personal computers, the mouse. To live in a world where we do not have the ability to point and click, scroll, or highlight and copy and paste text using […]
Share: Prevent Deadly Heart Arrhythmias? Heart disease and the complications caused by heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. The Center for Disease Control reports that someone in the US dies of a heart attack every 40 seconds, and approximately 805,000 people in the US have a heart attack annually. While […]
Share: Queen asked in their song of the same title “Who Wants to Live Forever?” Humanity has always struggled with its mortality. Everything ages from machinery to homes to organisms and people. However, Sinclair and LaPlante wrote, “There is no law of biology that says we must age at the rate at which we do […]