In brief: A summary of this month’s interview with Alexandra Elbakyan the beleaguered founder of the Sci-Hub website that provides academic papers for free in defiance of the 25 billion dollar a year academic publishing industry. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] In an undisclosed location in Kazakhstan sits a server hosting Sci-Hub, a website with more than 64 million… Continue reading "Sci-Hub’s Pirate Queen Sails On"
Summary: Cancer immunotherapy treatments and other approaches to cure nearly all cancers within 8 years says Dr. Gilliland, a prominent cancer research head. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D. is the President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and in an opinion piece published at the beginning of this month, writes “I’ve gone on… Continue reading "Breakthrough cancer immunotherapy treatments to be ‘curative’ by 2025 says prominent research head"
Summary: New targeted cancer therapies were recently highlighted in a report by the National Cancer Institute as emerging technologies to fight tumors, and scientists have much more in the pipeline. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Targeted cancer therapies – the most famous of which are immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy – are the current focus of excitement in… Continue reading "Breakthroughs in Targeted Cancer Therapies to Fight Tumors"
Summary: Glucose-lowering SGLT2 inhibitors, the inflammation-lowering drug Canakinumab, cholesterol-lowering PCSK9 inhibitors, and using gene editing to fix mutations, were named by the AHA in its list of the top advances in heart disease and stroke research of 2017. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman.] Here’s an executive summary of four of these top research advances: Fixing Genetic Mutation in Human Embryos When… Continue reading "AHA names 2017’s top advances in heart disease and stroke research"
Summary: Team paves the way for cancer immunotherapy with a novel technique that attacked tumors and inhibited cancers from spreading. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] While cancer immunotherapy is a powerful treatment for some types of tumors, up until now, it hasn’t worked well on colon cancer However, a team of researchers in Barcelona just showed a new technique… Continue reading "Team paves the way for immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumors"
Summary: Cancer-seeking nanorobots that choke off tumors has just been announced by an international collaboration between Arizona State University and NCNST. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] In a major advancement in medicine, an international team of scientists has successfully created nanorobots that shrink tumors by cutting off their blood supply. Years spent developing nanobots are finally bearing fruit, thanks… Continue reading "ASU researchers unveil cancer-seeking nanorobots that starve tumors"
Summary: In a medical first, scientists at CWRU have inhibited metastasis – the spread of cancer cells to another part of the body. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] In a first of its kind victory, researchers from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spread of cancer cells from one… Continue reading "CWRU researchers block cancer’s spread to body with novel technique"
Summary: Human gene therapy trials are reporting promising results, according to yesterday’s update by Liz Parrish, the CEO of BioViva and patient zero in a test of gene therapy on her own body. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Liz Parrish is known as “the woman who wants to genetically engineer you.” On February 11, Liz Parrish gave us an… Continue reading "BioViva’s Liz Parrish reports promising progress on human gene therapy"
Summary: Designer babies have recently become possible, as new techniques have gained credibility from serious scientists. Here’s how they can do it. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] On Feb 8, the AHA named “Fixing a gene mutation in human embryos” as among the “top advances in heart disease and stroke research” of the past year. They joined a chorus… Continue reading "Creating designer babies with CRISPR will soon be possible"
Summary: A team of scientists at Tongji University just announced a breakthrough in regenerating human lungs using stem cells, improving lung function in patients. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] A team of researchers from Tongji University in China announced what they say is a breakthrough in treating lung diseases by regenerating tissue using stem cell transplantation. In… Continue reading "Researchers report breakthrough in human lung regeneration"