Health

A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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Researchers, In A Bid To Create Stem Cells, Rejuvenated A 53-Year-Old Woman’s Skin To Look And Behave Like The Skin Of A 23-Year-Old Woman. Unfortunately, Their Method Can’t Be Used Clinically As It Could Increase Cancer Risk. But The Study May Help Identify Rejuvenating Genes That Could Be Used In Burn Treatment And Human Life Extension.

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Researchers Engineered A Bacteria, Probiotic E.coli Nissle 1917, To Consistently Produce, In The Gut, Effective Volumes Of L-DOPA Drug For Parkinson’s Disease Treatment. Mouse Studies Show That The Method Is Safe & Effective. And Consistent Source Of L-DOPA Could Alleviate Dyskinesias Side Effects. But More Study Is Required For Human Use.

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A New Study, Via Testing 22 Blood Samples, Has Detected, For The First Time, Tiny Particles Of Plastic In Human Blood. And Warn That The Microplastics Could Damage Human Cells. Half Of The Blood Samples Had Plastics From Drink Bottles, Another Third Had Plastics From Packaging Food. The Remaining Quarter Had Plastic From Shopping Bags.

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A 2 Night Study, Involving 20 Persons, Indicates That Sleeping With Light On, At Night, Increases The Risk For Heart Disease And Diabetes. The Study May Have Attributed The Cause To The Body Being Kept More Alert Via The Light Activation Of The Autonomic Nervous System. However, Further Larger Studies Are Advised To Confirm This Result.

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Researchers Reversed The Ageing Process In Middle-Aged And Elderly Mice By Using A Gene Therapy. The Researchers Were Able To Reset Mice Cells To More Youthful States, Within A 7 To 10 Months Period, By Injecting Them With Molecules Called The Yamanaka Transcription Factors. A Safer Therapy Could Be Used Against Human Age-Related Diseases.

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A US Patient, With Leukemia, Is Believed To Be The Third Person And The First Woman In The World To Be Cured Of HIV. The Patient, Who Has Been HIV Negative For 14 Months, Was Treated With A Stem Cell Transplant From Someone With A Natural Resistance To HIV. But Some Experts Say This Treatment Method Is Too Risky For Most HIV Patients.

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Researchers, In A First Of It’s Kind, Using 130,000 Eye Retinal Images, Coupled With Machine Learning, Were Able To Estimate A Person’s Biological Age From Their Actual Age. And The Retinal Age Gap Seem To Be An Independent Predictor Of Increased Mortality Risk, Especially Of Non-cardiovascular Disease And Non-Cancer Mortality.

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Doctors, For The First Time, Successfully Transplanted A Pig’s Heart Into A Human. The Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart, In A 7 Hours Operations, Was Transferred To A 57-Year-Old David Bennett, Who Suffered A Life-Threatening Arrhythmia And Was Deemed Ineligible To Recieve A Human Heart Transplant. This Feat Could Curb Organ Donor Scarcity Crisis.

New Zealand, In A Bid To Become Smoke-Free By 2025, Will Be The First Country To Ban Cigarettes By Preventing People Aged 14 And Under From Ever Buying Cigarettes, Begining From The Year 2022. The Plan Would Also See The Reduction In Cigarettes Nicotine Levels Available To Older People. While Also Raising The Smoking Age Year By Year.

Researchers Have Discovered A New Strain Of Coronavirus That Has About 50 Mutations, Compared To The Fewer Than 20 Mutations In The Delta Variant. The New Strain, Called Omicron, Is Said To Pose Very High Risk, And Is Probably The Most Contagious Strain. Omicron Has Been Found In More Than A Dozen Countries Across At Least Five Continents.

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A 6-Year Research, Based On 88,926 Adults, With An Average Age 61, Is Indicating That Falling Asleep Between 10 to 11 p.m May Minimise The Risk For Heart Disease. The Study Shows That Folks Who Fall Asleep Earlier Than 10 p.m. Or At Mid Night/ Later Were Associated With Respective 24% Or 25% Increase In Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease.

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WHO Has Approved The World’s First Malaria Vaccine. The RTS,S Vaccine, From GlaxoSmithKline, Is Also The First Ever Approved For Use Against A Parasitic Disease In Humans. The Vaccine Was Approved Based On Its Positive Results In Ghana, Kenya, And Malawi, As It Was Found To Reduce Malaria Cases By 40% And Hospitalizations By Nearly A Third.

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Researchers Used Chunks Of Tumour From The Brain Of Patients With Glioblastoma To Print A 3-D Model Similar To What They See In The Patients’ MRI Scans. And Then, Pumped The Patients’ Blood Into The 3-D Model With A Compound That Mimics The Brain, To Test The Efficacy Of A Potential Treatment Before Using It On The Real Body. Cool!

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Researchers, For The First Time, Injected CRISPR Drug Into The Blood Of People Afflicted With Transthyretin Amyloidosis—A Rare Deadly Liver Disease. And Early Results Show That, In 3 Persons, The CRISPR Drug Alleviated Toxic Protein Production Close To The Liver, Indicating Possible Success For Injectable CRISPR Treatment.

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A New Study, Based On Sleep Data From 85,000 Participants And Self Reported Data, Has Found A Link Btw Misaligned Sleep Cycle And Depressions/Anxiety. For Example, Night Folks Are More Likely To Be Depressed/Anxious When Working In The Morning, Relative To Morning Folks, Who Are Also More Exposed To Sunlight, Which’s Great For Depression.

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A Questionable Analysis, Based On 7 Cancer Studies Published Between 1966 And 2020, Seem To Indicate That Eating 2 Medium-Sized Mushrooms Daily Could Reduce The Risk Of Cancer By 45%. But Researchers Don’t Yet Know The Working Mechanism, The Specific Cancers Impacted, And If Other Factors, Like Diet And Physical Activities, Are Involved.

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Researchers Successfully Tested A New Cancer And Bacterial Killing Drug, SeNBD, By Embedding It, Like A Trojan Horse, Into Food Compounds For Cancerous Cells To Ingest. And SeNBD Only Activates In Visible Light, Enabling Doctors Decide When To Precisely Activate It, To Reduce The Chance Of Healthy Tissue Destruction And Other Side Effects.

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Researchers May Have Proven An Alternative Method Of Breathing Oxygen Via The Anus/Bottom. They Discovered That Severe Oxygen-Deprived Animals, Like In Mice And Pigs, Could Absorb Oxygen From Oxygen-Rich Liquid Squirted Into Their Rectums. This Alternative Would Be Most Welcome If It’s Practical In Patients With Severe Lungs Disease.

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A Blind Man Had His Eyesight Partially Restored, In A First Of Such Successful Treatment In Human Using Optogenetic Therapy And Engineered Goggles. The 58-Year-Old Man, For 40 Years, Was Afflicted With A Neurodegenerative Eye Disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Which Changes How The Retina Responds To Light, Which Could Lead To Total Blindness.

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