Mitochondria and Longevity
Nephrologist. Special interest in weight management and diabetes Jan 25 [image: Go to the profile of Dr. Jason Fung] Dr. Jason FungFollow Fasting, Longevity and the Mitochondrial Connection To understand a disease properly, you need to focus on finding the right level. This is a ‘forest for the trees’ problem. Think about Google Maps. If you zoom in too closely, you will miss what you are looking for. If you look at a map of your neighborhood, you can’t see where Greenland is. Similarly, if you zoom out too far, the same problem exists. Suppose I am looking for my house, but I look at... mais »
John Sulston
*Guardian Science*Verified account @guardianscience FollowFollow @guardianscience More Sir John Sulston, pioneering genome scientist, dies aged 75 12:32 PM - 9 Mar 2018
Health Literacy Interventions
[image: Community-Based Health Literacy Interventions: Proceedings of a Workshop] Prepublication Community-Based Health Literacy InterventionsProceedings of a Workshop (2018) Proceedings National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Joe Alper, Rapporteur Description In its landmark report, *Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion*, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the United States with limited health literacy wh... mais »
Calutron Girls
[image: Calutron operators at their panels, in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during World War II. 1944. The calutrons were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the Manhattan Project effort to construct an atomic explosive, workers toiled in secrecy, with no idea to what end their labors were directed. Gladys Owens, the woman seated in the foreground, did not realize what she had been doing until seeing this photo in a public tour of the facility fifty years later. Tennessee, USA. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)] By JANET BEARD March 8, 2018 Calutron ... mais »
Pandemic Cholera
*Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* Quanto tempo até termos cólera aqui no Brasil? The work by Lessler and colleagues is relevant to many parallel efforts. In support of Sustainable Development Goal 6, mapping of WaSH data will be enhanced by 2030 with more information on water quality and an additional institutional focus on schools and health facilities. Also, through its initiative on so-called precision public health, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation is mapping safe water and sanitation coverage at a fine scale and has mapped child death rates in ... mais »
Rheumatic HD Pcific Islands
*Sugested by the AMICOR Maria Ines Reinert Azambuja*Rheumatic heart disease in the Pacific island nations Chris McCall Published: 10 March 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30615-9 | [image: show]Article Info - Summary - Full Text - Tables and Figures A pending motion from WHO might seek to eradicate rheumatic heart disease, which is still prevalent in Pacific island nations where progress is lagging. Chris McCall reports. This article is available free of charge. Simply login to access the full article, or register for free if you do not yet have a username an... mais »
Mulher: Dia Internacional
Like Tweet +1 in [image: banner campaigns enews] [image: 13112220513 84244da363 o crop] (c) Antonio Olmos/ HelpAge International 2008 Dear Aloyzio, It's International Women’s Day! As we speak, activists across the world are pushing for faster progress towards gender equality. But older women’s voices are rarely heard in these debates. Today, we are putting a spotlight on older women and their experiences of gender-based violence. All too often, they remain invisible in data about violence, and excluded from policy and programmes to stop it. Right now, we need your help to make su... mais »
Hippocampus neuroenesis Ends in Childhood
Birth of New Neurons in the Human Hippocampus Ends in Childhoodby Neuroscience News [image: neurons]Young neurons (green) decrease in the human hippocampus across the lifespan, vs more mature neurons (red). NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Alvarez-Buylla lab / UCSF. Although observed in other species, researchers report hippocampal neurogenesis does not persist through adult life in humans. Researchers say human hippocampal neurogenesis is not detectable in the adult brain. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | March 7, 2018 at 12:22 pm | Tags: SGZ, subgranular zone, ... mais »
Gabriel Garcia Marques
Gabriel García Márquez ganhou uma incrível homenagem do Google: o autor colombiano completaria 91 anos nesta terça-feira (6), sendo presenteado com um Doodle especial na página inicial do motor de buscas. A ilustração, criada por Matthew Cruickshank, faz referência à Macondo, a aldeia que é o ambiente da mais famosa obra de García Márquez, “Cem Anos de Solidão”. O livro já foi considerado o mais relevante da literatura latino-americana, e é um dos mais lidos e traduzidos no mundo todo. García Márquez, um dos autores mais importantes do século 20, escreveu mais de 25 livros durante su... mais »
les vaches polluantes
[image: Eléonore Sulser] Chère lectrice, cher lecteur,Les vaches. Elles ruminent, elles mâchent, tranquilles, superbes. Superbes, mais pas sans danger pour la planète si l’on en croit les scientifiques. En s’adonnant à la rumination, elles relâchent du méthane dans l’atmosphère, un gaz qui possède un pouvoir réchauffant 25 fois plus puissant que celui du CO2. Elles en sont la source principale. Dès lors que faire? Des chercheurs suisses proposent des pistes. Notamment sous forme de compléments alimentaires qui pourraient permettre de limiter ce phénomène dit de fermentation entériq... mais »
How Many Friends
This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy Patrick Allan Photo: NBC Friends make you happy, healthy, and they’ll be there for you when the rain starts to pour. But how many of them do you need? Turns out the show *Friends* had the science all figured out. [image: Article preview thumbnail] What Research Says Happiness Really Is There’s a lot of philosophical debate over what it actually means to “be happy,” but if you’re… Read more Back in the early 90s, British anthropologist Dr. Robin Dunbar came to an interesting conclusion: humans could likely only maintain social relatio... mais »
Nervous System and Inflammation
Nervous System Puts the Brakes on Inflammationby Neuroscience News A new study reveals ILC2 cells in the nervous system can halt immune response to infections that cause inflammation. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | March 4, 2018 at 12:10 pm | Tags: b2, B2 adrenergic receptors, B2AR, beta 2, innate lymphoid cells, Weill Cornell University | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-cfR Comment See all comments
flashing lights and pink noise
28 FEBRUARY 2018 How flashing lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s, improve memory and more Neuroscientists are getting excited about non-invasive procedures to tune the brain’s natural oscillations. Helen Thomson - Illustration by Paweł Jońca In March 2015, Li-Huei Tsai set up a tiny disco for some of the mice in her laboratory. For an hour each day, she placed them in a box lit only by a flickering strobe. The mice — which had been engineered to produce plaques of the peptide amyloid-β in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease — crawled about curiously. ... mais »
neurology
Measuring deep-brain neurons’ electrical signals at high speed with light instead of electrodes February 28, 2018 [image: Archon1 ft] “We will be able to watch a neural computation happen ... a step toward understanding what a thought or a feeling actually is.” --- Prof. Edward Boyden Researchers at MIT have developed a new approach to measure electrical activity deep in the brain: using light — an easier, faster, and more informative method than inserting electrodes. They’ve developed a new light-sensitive protein that can be embedded into neuron membranes, where it emits a fluor... mais »
4th People's Health Assembly
Let's come together at the 4th People's Health Assembly ! Fourth People’s Health Assembly taking place 15-19 November 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh *Civil society mobilization and policy dialogue for health equity and accountable national and global governance for health.* *Background to the Assembly* We are faced today with a global health crisis that is characterized by inequities related to a range of social determinants of health and in access to health services within countries and between countries. In many regions of the world, health systems are poorly designed, under-resourced, a... mais »
Amartya Sen
Idea / Political Philosophy Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism Tim Rogan
Freud and Young
Sigmund Freud was the established genius; Carl Jung the youthful upstart. They began as friends, and ended as bitter enemies. Help us create an animation about one of the great intellectual feuds of the 20th century.
Early Hominins
Essay / Cultures & Languages Did Homo erectus speak? Early hominins who sailed across oceans left indirect evidence that they might have been the first to use language Daniel Everett
Words and the Poetry
The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Words and the Poetry of Inhabiting Your Presence in Language *“We die. That may be the meaning of life,”* Toni Morrison asserted in her spectacular Nobel Prize acceptance speech. *“But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”* We do language not merely with our words — which are themselves events — but with the lived and living presence behind them. *“Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality,”*Susan Sontag wrote in contemplating the conscience of words. If words are the ar... mais »
Tupanvirus
NEWS IN BRIEF These giant viruses have more protein-making gear than any known virus BY DAN GARISTO Scientists have found two more giant viruses in extreme environments in Brazil. Read More IT’S ALIVE? Tupanvirus soda lake, seen in this scanning electron microscope image, is one of two newly discovered giant viruses.
Skin Bacteria
*Higienização excessiva pode ser inconveniente?* *NEWS* Human skin bacteria have cancer-fighting powers BY AIMEE CUNNINGHAM Strains of a bacteria that live on human skin make a compound that suppressed tumor growth in mice. Read More
First Stars
NEWS Here’s when the universe’s first stars may have been born BY EMILY CONOVER The first stars lit the cosmos by 180 million years after the Big Bang, radio observations suggest. Read More
Body’s Microbial Garden
Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden By CARL ZIMMERJUNE 18, 2012 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - Save For a century, doctors have waged war against bacteria, using antibiotics as their weapons. But that relationship is changing as scientists become more familiar with the 100 trillion microbes that call us home — collectively known as the microbiome. “I would like to lose the language of warfare,” said Julie Segre, a senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute. “It does a disservice to all the bac... mais »
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