Latasha Pettway

Doctors Used A New Method, Ultrasound, Administered Via Rod Shaped Device Inserted Into The Urethra, To Treat Prostate Cancer With 80% Success Rate And 65% Of Men Showing No Prostate Cancer Sign After A Year. This Is A Most Welcome Development Because Surgery And Radiation Treatments Can Leave Men Incontinent Or Impotent.

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Hospital Infections Are The 8 Leading Cause Of Death In the USA With Beds As The Main Spreading Culprit. Hence The Importance Of The Study Finds That Beds With Copper Surfaces, Due To Copper Antimicrobial Properties, Harbor An Average Of 94% Fewer Bacteria Than Regular Beds With Plastic Surfaces That Could Hold Unsafe Levels Of Bacteria.

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Candida Auris, A Drug-Resistant Fungus, Is Now The World’s Most Feared Hospital Microbes Due To Global Warming. C. Auris Frequently Causes Bloodstream Infections, But Can Also Infect Respiratory And Central Nervous Systems, Internal Organs, And Skin. ~60% Of Infected Patients Have Died. Long Stay In Health Institutions Increases Risk Of Infection.

Very Human-Like Analogy Of A Dramatic Case Of Functional Horizontal Gene Transfer Ever Found In Complex Organisms. Here, The Parasitic Plant Dodder Uses Stolen Host Genes To More Effectively Siphon Off The Host Nutrients. Even Some Stolen Genes are Sent Back Into The Host Plant As Weapons In Silencing The Host Defense Genes.

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A New Record Has Been Set For The Number Of CRISPR Edits That Can Be Done To A Single Human Cell While keeping The Cell Alive. The New Record Of 13,200 Genetic Changes Could Enable, E.G., The Large Scale Removal Of Unwanted Genes, And The Engineering Of New Species To Mention These Few. Cool!

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Women Are On A Roll Here At NASA. The Current Administrator Of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, Is Expecting That A Woman Will Make The First Steps, For Mankind, On The Red Planet, Mars. The Trip To Mars, According To Jim Bridenstine, Would Be Made Possible By NASA’s 2020 Budget. So Looking Forward To 2020 And Beyond.

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NASA Will Conduct The First All-Female Space Walk On The 29th Of March 2019 At The International Space Station. The Walk, Which Will Be Carried Out By Astronauts Anne McClain And Christina Koch, Is Expected To Last For About 7 Hours. The First Woman To Fly In Space, In 1963, Was Valentina Tereshkova Of Russia.

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Capsaicinoids, That Compound That Is Found In Chili Pepper, Which Gives Your Mouth That Burning Sensation Could Be Genetically Engineered Into Tomatoes, According To Scientists, To Give It A Spicy Taste. Talk About Spicy Tomatoes–Still Trying To Rap My Head Around That, But It’s Not The Craziest Thing That I Have Heard.

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It Would Be Crazy If I Went To The Hospital For Treatment, Only To Contract A Deadly Disease. This Is The Fear Surrounding The New Jersey Outpatient Surgery Facility In Saddle Brook, Where It\’s Suspected That 3,778 People May Have Been Exposed To HIV, Hepatitis B And C Due To Poor Sterility And Safety Practices.

It Seems Like Gene Editing May Have Been Used To Create The First Human Gene Edited Baby. The Scientists Used Gene Editing To Remove The Gene, CCR5, Which Is Said To Enable HIV Infection. The Reason For Doing This May Seem Warranted, But Some Folks Are Concerned About The Ethical Implications Of The Action.

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Scientists Have Cloned The Virus Responsible For Some Of The Most Destruction, In The World, To Wine Grapes. The Virus, Grapevine Leafroll-Associated Virus 3 (Leafroll 3), Is Said To Cause Millions Of Dollars In Damages. The Cloning Would Enable Scientists Understand How The Virus Works So As To Find A Cure.

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Damn Bacteria Do Know How To Adapt! A Relatively Recent Study Has Now Indicated That Bacteria, Specifically Enterococcus Faecium, Is Now More Resistant To Hand Based Alcohol Sanitizer. Enterococcus Faecium, Aside From Being The Leading Cause For Urinary Tract Infections And Sepsis In Hospitals, Is also Resistant To Antibiotics. Hmm!

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The Commonly Eaten Cavendish Bananas May Be On The Brink Of Extinction, Thanks To The Panama Disease, Which Has Spread To Most Continents Except South-America. But If The Gene That Limits The Disease Can Be Identified From A Rare Banana, Ensete Perrier, CRISPR Could be Used To Modify The Cavendish Banana To Survive The Disease.

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A Drug, WAY-316606, Which Could Be Used In Treating Osteoporosis–A Bone Weakening Condition, May Be Used To Treat Baldness By Restricting The Baldness Causing Protein. WAY-316606, According To The Researchers, Could Be Administered Without Major Side Effects, Unlike The 2 Currently Approved Drugs Minoxidil (Rogaine) and Finasteride.

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Cancer Drugs Could Have Serious Side Effects; That Is, They Could Harm Healthy Cells In The Body. So, In A Bid To Avoid This, And Effectively Target Cancer Cells, Scientists Have Developed Nanorobots That Can Precisely Carry Cancer Treatment Drugs To Tumors. Hoping For the Best In Human Trials.

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The USA FDA Has Approved The 23andMe Home Test Kit For Men And Women To Test For The Risk Of Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer (Men), And Ovarian Cancer (Women) Based On 3 BRCA DNA Mutations. The Kit, However, May Not Be Accurate As It Can Only Detect 3 Of The 1000 BRCA Known Mutations.

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The Gene Editing Tool, CRISPR, May Be The Remedy To The Ever Threatening Impact Of Global Warming On Chocolates. Global Warming Is Said To Make Conditions Difficult For Cocoa Trees, Source Of Chocolate, To Thrive. The CRISPR Tool Could Help Modify Cocoa Trees To Survive Higher Temperatures With Less Water.

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