Knoledge World distribution
*It’s time to redraw the world’s very unequal knowledge map* July 8, 2015 12.22am EDT Author 1. Laura Czerniewicz Associate Professor, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town 2. If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each country produced, it would take on a rather bizarre, uneven appearance. The Northern hemisphere would balloon beyond recognition. The global south, including Africa, would effectively melt off the map. This image is based on data from 2001 - but, as this interactive map which ... mais »
Neroscience Fear
*Sciencebeta* @sciencebeta Jul 14 Specialized neurons in emotional memory brain area play important role in fear http://bit.ly/29FrW5j
Mitochondrial DNA
[image: Mitochondrial DNA Synthesis] Endoplasmic Reticulum Key To Mitochondrial DNA Synthesis Florian Rosado July 16, 2016 Aging, neurodegenerative disorders and metabolic disease are all linked to mitochondria, structures within our cells that generate chemical energy and maintain their own DNA. In a discovery with far-reaching implications, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have now shown how cells control DNA synthesis in mitochondria and couple it to mitochondrial division. Mitochondria retain their own DNA from the very distant past, when they were a type of b... mais »
DM Risk and Microbioma
[image: gut bacteria] Gut Microbiome Imbalance Raises Diabetes Risk Florian Rosado July 14, 2016 The current thinking among scientists about the major contributors to insulin resistanceinvolves excess weight and physical inactivity. Now, new research by an EU funded European-Chinese team of investigators called MetaHit has found that specific imbalances in the gut bacteria can cause insulin resistance, which confers an increased risk of health disorders like type 2 diabetes. [image: gut bacteria] Senior lead author Professor Oluf Pedersen, Metabolism Center, University of Copenhagen... mais »
A diretoria do Avenida Tênis Clube, eleita em 3.3.1934, sob a presidência de João Geiger Bonuma, em sessão realizada em 18.5 de 1934, encarregou seu órgão oficial, o *A.T.C*., de organizar a eleição da nova rainha do clube. O *Diario do Interior*, jornal santa-mariense que publicou várias notícias sobre o andamento da eleição da primeira rainha, no ano anterior, nada noticiou até 24.7.1934, quando anunciou o baile da coroação. Apenas o jornal *A.T.C*., em sua edição de 12.6.1934, comentou o invulgar entusiasmo gerado pela votação cuja primeira apuração, no sábado anterior, 9 de junho,... mais »
JAMA: artigo do Pres. Obama
*Obama Publica Artigo Científico no JAMA* Além de comandar um dos países mais complexos do mundo, Barack Obama ainda encontrou um tempinho para escrever e publicar um artigo acadêmico na prestigiosa revista médica JAMA. O artigo foi veiculado na última segunda-feira (11), e é possivelmente o primeiro escrito por um presidente americano em atividade. Obama escreveu sobre o Affordable Care Act (Ato dos Serviços de Saúde Acessíveis, em tradução livre). Ele analisa dados reunidos em outros relatórios e estudos, e frisa o sucesso do ACA, incluindo uma queda na porcentagem de americanos s... mais »
Urban Health
*Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* [image: Logo_padding.jpg] [image: YEA_header.jpg] ------------------------------ URBANHEALTHMATTERSBLOGThe voice of urban health New on *Urban Health Matters*, The New York Academy of Medicine’s blog—a unique forum for expert and community voices on what it takes to improve health in cities across the United States and around the world.
Lab Scandal
The Billion Dollar Lab ScandalPart one: the rise and fall of Health Diagnostics LaboratorySAVED - - - - - - by Larry Husten CardioBrief *For more than a year Larry Husten has been following the story of Health Diagnostics Laboratory in his CardioBrief blog. In this feature, which is the first of multi-part feature series, he drills down to uncover the full details of the scandal.* Earlier this year the U.S. government froze hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to former owners of the bankrupt and now defunct Health Diagnostics Laboratory, ... mais »
Cinnamon Aids Learning
Cinnamon Aids Learning Ability: Mouse Studyby Neuroscience News [image: Image shows cinnamon sticks.]According to a new study, mice determined to have poor learning ability appeared be become better learners after being fed cinnamon. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | July 15, 2016 at 10:35 am | Tags: cinnamon, CREB, GABAA,GABRA5, hippocampus, learning, Memory, neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Parkinson's disease | Categories: Featured, Neuroscience | URL: http://wp.me/p4sXNK-8zG Comment See all comments
1.2 MILLION GALAXIES
LARGEST MAP EVER MADE WILL UNLOCK THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE By Ryan F. Mandelbaum 4 hours ago [image: A map of the universe] Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III "This is one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Each dot in this picture indicates the position of a galaxy 6 billion years into the past. The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the Universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates dist... mais »
GB Stroke 1990-2013 in 188 countries
Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um diaGlobal burden of stroke and risk factors in 188 countries, during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Prof Valery L Feigin, MD[image: correspondence][image: email] , Gregory A Roth, MD , Prof Mohsen Naghavi, MD , Priya Parmar, PhD , Rita Krishnamurthi, PhD , Sumeet Chugh, MD , George A Mensah, MD , Prof Bo Norrving, MD , Ivy Shiue, PhD , Marie Ng, PhD , Kara Estep, BA , Kelly Cercy, BA , Prof Christopher J L Murray, MD , Prof Mohammad H Forouzanfar, PhD for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study 2013 and Stroke Experts Writ... mais »
Statistics...
How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding Jonathan R Goodman [image: Idea sized alexander baxevanis 5637474364 93a9815068 o]
Magnesium and HBP
Dietary Mineral Could Be One Key to Blood Pressure ControlPeople who didn't get enough daily magnesium had higher BP readings, analysis showed By Mary Elizabeth Dallas Tuesday, July 12, 2016 [image: HealthDay news image] TUESDAY, July 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Sufficient dietary levels of the mineral nutrient magnesium might be a boon to good blood pressure, new research suggests. "Magnesium dilates arteries, and in doing so lowers the blood pressure," explained Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a cardiologist who reviewed the new findings. "Foods high in magnesium include whole grains, ... mais »
Urbanization
GEOGRAPHY HISTORYThe History of Urbanization from 3700 BC – 2000 ADStatistician and data visualization expert Max Galka has created a fascinating video that shows the history of urbanization from 3700 BC – 2000 AD. The data shown in the map comes from a Yale-led study published earlier this month in Scientific Data , which compiled the most comprehensive dataset on historical urban populations to date. Galka adds : The researchers compiled the data from two original sources: Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census by Tertius Chandler ...TWISTEDSIFTER.COM · 11 J... mais »
Mind-Body
The Mind–Body Problem, Scientific Regress and "Woo" The science of consciousness, far from converging on a sensible paradigm, is going backward - By John Horgan on July 11, 2016 - - During a recent talk at “The Science of Consciousness” conference in Tucson, Arizona, John Horgan argued that science, far from progressing toward a sensible solution to the mind-body problem, is becoming more metaphysically flakey, or “woo.” The poster displayed on the screen celebrates the 2014 conference. Photo: David Chalmers.The deepest of all scientific mysteries, I once thought, i... mais »
Artificial Sweeteners
How Artificial Sweeteners May Cause Us to Eat More Like a freshly cracked diet soda, suspicions have been fizzing away for years that artificial sweeteners may not be the best way to slim down By Bret Stetka on July 12, 201 A vast body of research suggests that sugar substitutes, despite having far fewer calories than sugar itself, can wreak various forms of metabolic havoc such as upping diabetes risk and—perhaps paradoxically—causing weight gain in the long term. A new study published Tuesday in C*ell Metabolism *suggests that artificial sweeteners mimic a starvation state in the ... mais »
World according different variables
How We Share the World July 17, 2015 This interactive graphic shows how the world is divided according to six different socioeconomic variables. The land area of each country represents its share of the worldwide total. Click on a circle to reshape the map I have been having fun experimenting with cartograms lately. As maps go, they have their shortcomings. But when it comes to communicating magnitude, I think they are much more effective than maps that do so with color alone. For more information about what a cartogram is, have a look at my last two posts, The Housing Value of Every C...mais »
Regaining Eyesight
In a Scientific First, Blind Mice Regain EyesightA group of U.S. scientists has helped mice with destroyed optic nerves to see again +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Regrown Brain Cells Give Blind Mice a New View* Mix of gene manipulation and exercise raises hopes in fight against glaucoma, spinal injury and Alzheimer’s By Karen Weintraub on July 11, 2016 Glaucoma of the optical disk. *Credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images *Researchers at Stanford University have coaxed brain cells involved in vision to regrow and make functional connections—helping to upend t... mais »
Philistines
*Philistines* Ancient philistine cemetery discovered in Israel could solve one of the Bible’s biggest mysteries They are a derogatory figure of speech and one of the Bible’s most important groups of people – but we might have got them entirely wrong - Andrew Griffin - @_andrew_griffin [image: phili1.jpg]
AD and Retina
Detecting Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear With Aid of New Eye Technology by Neuroscience News Human trials are scheduled for a new eye technology that researchers say could detect Alzheimer's before symptoms appear. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | July 11, 2016 at 12:38 pm | Tags: Alzheimer's disease , cognition, eye test, neurodegenerative diseases, Neurology, Open Access, open science, retina | Categories: Featured, Neurology, Open Neuroscience Articles | URL: http://wp.me/p4sXNK-8xR Comment See all comments+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ How to detect early signs of Al... mais »
Language deficit
Predicting Language Deficits Following Strokes with Connectome Based Imaging by Neuroscience News Researchers report that, following a stroke, mapping the brain's white matter connections in addition to imaging tissue damage could help to predict which patients will have language deficits and how severe they may be. Read more of this post
Neuroscience
*From Kurzweil* Neurons grown from stem cells in a dish reveal clues about autism July 8, 2016 [image: Salk researchers have turned the skin cells of people with autism spectrum disorder into neurons. These cells show specific defects compared with those neurons derived from healthy people, including diminished ability to form excitatory connections with other neurons (indicated by red and green dots in the neuron). (credit: Salk Institute)] Neurons’ activity seemed to improve by adding IGF-1, which is known to enhance connections between neurons Why do the brains of up to 30 perc... mais »
Leaking Atmosphere
*Também recomendado pelo AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* image: http://i0.wp.com/www.deepstuff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Cluster_Earth_leaky_atmosphere_625w-1.jpg?resize=670%2C300 [image: The curious case of Earth’s leaking atmosphere] The curious case of Earth’s leaking atmosphere July 8, 2016 0 Comments Earth’s atmosphere is leaking. Every day, around 90 tonnes of material escapes from our planet’s upper atmosphere and streams out into space. Although missions such as ESA’s Cluster fleet have long been investigating this leakage, there are still many open questions. How and why is Earth ... mais »
Hacking CNS
*Artigo recomendado pelo AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* [image: Why hacking the nervous system could be the next big medical treatment] Why hacking the nervous system could be the next big medical treatment[image: Foto do perfil de Jorge Ossanai] july 10 The nervous system that commands and controls your body is beautifully constructed, but occasionally things go wrong. Defects in our DNA can cause lead to a range of disorders. Accidents, old age and even poor diet can equally cause havoc. Pharmaceutical therapy can sometimes help but not all conditions can be treated. And, in any case, suc... mais »
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