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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Schinus terebinthifolia


Brazilian peppertree packs power to knock out antibiotic-resistant bacteria

February 10, 2017

Brazilian peppertree packs power to knock out antibiotic-resistant bacteria
A specimen of Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolia)
 from the Emory University Herbarium. Credit:
Emory University
The red berries of the Brazilian peppertree—a weedy, invasive species
common in Florida—contain an extract with the power to disarm
dangerous antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria, scientists at
Emory University have discovered.
The journal Scientific Reports is publishing the finding, made in the
 lab of Cassandra Quave, an assistant professor in
Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health and in the
School of Medicine's Department of Dermatology.






Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-brazilian-peppertree-power-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.html#jCp

Tetra-N methylated cyclam (TMC)/AD

New Approach to Treating Alzheimer’s

by Neuroscience NewsImage shows the chemical structures of macrocyclic polyamines.
Researchers reveal a possible new method to help treat Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience News | February 28, 2017 at 10:57 am | Tags: amyloid-betatetra-N-methylated cyclamTMCUNIST | URL: http://wp.me/p4sXNK-abz
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Professor Mi Hee Lim of Natural Science at UNIST has developed a metal-based substance that works like a pair of genetic scissors to cut out amyloid-β (Aβ), the hallmark protein of AD

Nicotinamide riboside

Deux molécules naturelles pour vieillir moins vite

Plusieurs récentes études scientifiques ont vérifié les effets de deux substances qui induiraient une cure de jouvence des organes et des muscles. Déjà sur le marché, car naturelles, elles font fureur à la vente sur Internet. Les experts sont à la fois prudents et enthousiastes/.../

solazenumab/verubecestat

S’est-on trompé de cible contre la maladie d’Alzheimer?

Deux laboratoires ont récemment abandonné leurs essais sur un traitement contre Alzheimer. La recherche a-t-elle fait fausse route en se concentrant sur une piste, celle de la cascade amyloïde, alors qu’il existe d’autres voies porteuses d’espoir?/.../

Carnaval 2017

Carnaval 2017

Monday, February 27, 2017

Evernote nas nuvens

Em setembro, anunciamos que a Evernote migraria para uma moderna infraestrutura na nuvem e não perdemos tempo para iniciar esse processo.
Apenas um mês após o anúncio, já estávamos movendo dados para a Google Cloud Platform. Agora já podemos dizer que migramos com sucesso nosso serviço para a nuvem, e conseguimos isso com impacto mínimo para nossos clientes./.../
* PS: Há aproximadamente 150 milhões de livros publicados na história do mundo moderno. Cada livro ocuparia 2 MB de espaço no computador para ser armazenado. Todos os livros publicados no mundo moderno = 300 milhões MB = 0,3 PB. Movemos 3 PB. Isso é equivalente a mover aproximadamente 10x o número de livros que já foram publicados na história moderna.

Healthy diet

Why you should eat 10 portions of fruit or vegetables a day
February 24, 2017

image credit | iStock Eating 800 grams a day (about ten portions*) of fruit or vegetables could reduce your chance of heart attack, stroke, cancer, and early death, scientists from Imperial College London conclude from a meta-analysis of 95 studies on fruit and vegetable intake. The study, published in an open-access paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology, included … more…

neural-network computing

An ultra-low-power artificial synapse for neural-network computing

Brain-like device with 500 states instead of binary could one day communicate with live neurons, merging computers with the brain
February 24, 2017

(Left) Illustration of a synapse in the brain connecting two neurons. (Right) Schematic of artificial synapse (ENODe), which functions as a transistor. It consists of two thin, flexible polymer films (black) with source, drain, and gate terminals, connected by an electrolyte of salty water that permits ions to cross. A voltage pulse applied to the “presynaptic” layer (top) alters the level of oxidation in the “postsynaptic layer” (bottom), triggering current flow between source and drain. (credit: Thomas Splettstoesser/CC and Yoeri van de Burgt et al./Nature Materials)
Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed an organic artificial synapse based on a new memristor (resistive memory device) design that mimics the way synapses in the brain learn. The new artificial synapse could lead to computers that better recreate the way the human brain processes information. It could also one day directly interface with the human brain./.../

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Mind-gut connections

Quick and Dirty TipsWELLNESS
Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?
This week Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen goes straight for the gut with three surprising mind-gut connectionsBy Savvy Psychologist Ellen Hendriksen on February 11, 2017
Credit: Jens Magnusson Getty Images
If you had to guess the organ that has undue influence on your emotions, your mood, even your choices, what would you guess? The brain? Sure, but what else? The heart—that mythological seat of the soul? Not quite. The stomach? You’re getting warmer. Would you believe it’s the large and small intestine, collectively known as the gut? More specifically, it’s the trillions of bacteria—the microbiota—that live in your gut. Each of us carries up to four and a half pounds of bacteria around in our guts at any given time. More than 100 trillion microbes live down there. That’s as many cells as make up the rest of your body.
Now, this crowd is mostly good guys, and they do important work, to the extent that some scientists advocate classifying these collective microbiota as its own organ. Aside from helping digest our food, they protect us from disease, neutralize some of the toxic by-products of the digestive process, and make it harder for bad bacteria to set up shop. In short, your gut does way more than just digest everything from Cheetos to camembert.
But it turns out gut bacteria may also affect how we feel. Who knew the next frontier in mental well-being would lead right to the toilet? With that lovely image in mind, here are 3 big ways our microbiota are connected to our mental health.
 
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Universe tour

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 minutos
- *Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour* *eBook Kindle*

Brain and Behavior

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 7 minutos
Interests in Context As a boy, Oliver Sacks loved chemistry. Though later known as a neurologist, Dr. Sacks was captivated by a different science as a child. In his book *Uncle Tungsten*, he reflects on his “chemical boyhood”: his early passion for understanding the world and its history in chemical terms. Dr. Sacks, born in London in 1933, describes his enchantment in learning not only contemporary chemistry, but also its history. By the time he was delving into chemical handbooks, just after the second World War, much of the information in his shabby, older volumes, and many of the... mais »

Luiz Gonzaga Binato de Almeida e o jornal A Razão (Última edição)

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 horas
*O jornalista Luiz Gonzaga Binato de Almeida mantinha há nove anos uma coluna Imagens da História no jorrnal de minha terra Santa Maria - A Razão. |Nas últimas edições publicou notas e fotos relacionadas com nossa família: os Link e Cechella. Hoje na última edição publica materia sobre sua família, - Segala Binato - junto com a surpresa do encerramento das atividades do jornal. * *A Razão nascera um pouco depois de mim em 1934, fundada por Clarimundo Flores, - fui colega no curso secundário de um filho dele.* Comunicado aos leitores de A Razão por A Razão em 25/02/2017 10:59 Comparti... mais »

Inequality: Violence

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 15 horas
Walter Scheidel Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University; Author, "The Great Leveler" Walter Scheidel is Dickason professor in the humanities, professor of classics and history, Catherine R. Kennedy and Daniel L. Grossman fellow in human biology and director of graduate studies in classics at Stanford University. His research focuses on ancient social and economic history, with particular emphasis on historical demography, labor and state formation. More generally, he is interested in comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to the study of the premodern world ... mais »

Sugar's and AD'

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
Sugar’s “Tipping Point” Link to Alzheimer’s Revealedby Neuroscience News In early Alzheimer's, glycation damages an enzyme that plays a crucial role in immune response and insulin regulation, researchers report. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | February 23, 2017 at 3:03 pm | Tags: glucose. metabolism, glycation, hypoglycemia, MIF, University of Bath | URL: http://wp.me/p4sXNK-aas Comment See all comments

All US Birds

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
This Gorgeous Poster Contains Every Single Bird You'll See in North America Annalee Newitz 10/30/15 3:00pm Filed to: ANIMALS *Recebi da Conceição Briscoe, viúva de meu amigo John Briscoe*

Reason

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
The Function of Reason *A Conversation With Dan Sperber* *Contrary to the standard view of reason as a capacity that enhances the individual in his or her cognitive capacities—the standard image is of Rodin’s "Thinker," thinking on his own and discovering new ideas—what we say now is that the basic functions of reason are social. They have to do with the fact that we interact with each other’s bodies and with each other’s minds. And to interact with other’s minds is to be able to represent a representation that others have, and to have them represent our representations, and also... mais »

Exoplanets

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
What to Know About NASA’s Big Announcement NASA's announcement suggests a star just 39 light years away may host our best hope for life in space

Rosal

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
[image: LOGO-ROSAL-PPT-SEM-COMUNICACAO-R00] ROSAL COMUNICA E CONECTAO elo entre produtores rurais, consumidores e pesquisadores.

Healthy meal

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
Molly Cranna for TIME DIET/NUTRITION How to Build a Healthy Meal That Actually Keeps You Full Cynthia Sass / Health.com Dec 05, 2016 TIME Health [image: salad-3-health-food-diet-fitness-betterment-motto-stock] For more, visit TIME Health. Do you ever eat a healthy lunch only to find yourself *starving* by 3 p.m.? You're not alone. This a common frustration I hear from my clients, and in most cases, the explanation is the same: The meal was missing at least one key element that plays a major role in satiety, satisfaction, and energy. Luckily there's an easy fix: Use my simple formula fo... mais »

Richess

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
*Selecionado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* From The New York Times: By PAUL SULLIVANWho Are the Richest of the Rich? There are 2,473 billionaires in the world by a new count, and how they got their money and what they plan to do with it are matters of global importance. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/your-money/who-are-the-richest-of-the-rich.html?mwrsm=Email FEB. 19, 2017 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/your-money/who-are-the-richest-of-the-rich.html?mwrsm=Email

Human Genoma editing Report

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
Human genome editing shouldn't be used for enhancement – yet [image: Imagem da história para human genome de New Scientist]New Scientist-14 de fev de 2017 So say the authors of a new report on editing the human genome. However, such germline editing could be permitted in the future, if properly ... International committee says push forward with human genome editing Chemical & Engineering News (subscription)-15 de fev de 2017 With stringent oversight, heritable human genome editing could be ... Science Daily-14 de fev de 2017 Scientists cautiously lay ground rules for rewriting human DNA ... mais »

Cirurgia Bariátrica

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
*Contribuição do AMICOR Reginaldo Hollanda Albuquerque (Brasília)* *CIRURGIAS BARIATRICAS E AS DEFICIÊNCIAS DE VITAMINAS E SAIS MINERAIS* A cirurgia bariátrica tornou-se o procedimento cirúrgico mais comum mais realizado no mundo inteiro, segundo dados recentemente publicados. Isto se deve à epidemia de obesidade no mundo. As melhorias nos indicadores metabólicos também são impactantes. Melhoram o diabetes e a hiperlipidemia diminuindo assim os riscos cardiovasculares e o câncer. Uma das preocupações dos especialistas é o seguimento pós operatório quando várias deficiências podem ocor... mais »