Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Alzheimer’s Progression Slowed by Drug in Major Trial

“Lecanemab reduced the pace of cognitive decline in people with early disease by 27% over 18 months when compared with a placebo, meeting the main goal of the trial, the companies said in a statement. The benefit came with side effects, including brain swelling and bleeding, though severe cases were rare.”

Well, it’s a start….

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/alzheimer-s-slowed-by-amyloid-lowering-drug-from-eisai-biogen

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Scientists Just Found Living Organisms From Over 800 Million Years Ago

Extremely interesting if true:

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/microorganisms-800-million-years.html

Scientists Have Created Microrobots That Can Automatically Brush and Floss Your Teeth

I’d love to see this:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-created-microrobots-that-can-automatically-brush-and-floss-your-teeth/

Remarkable Anti-Aging Drug Delivers Positive Effects on Health and Lifespan With Brief Exposure

Very interesting:

https://scitechdaily.com/remarkable-anti-aging-drug-delivers-positive-effects-on-health-and-lifespan-with-brief-exposure/

Thought To Be Impossible – New Method Could Diagnose Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/thought-to-be-impossible-new-method-could-diagnose-early-stage-parkinsons-disease/

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: A New Genetic Link Confirmed

“Dr. Adewuyi said abnormal levels of cholesterol were shown to be a risk for both AD and gut disorders.”

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-a-new-genetic-link-confirmed/

Saturday, July 23, 2022

DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language

This is really incredible. I’ve signed up for the beta. I could really use this for generating the exact images I want for my videos, rather than making do with what I can scrounge up online:

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Skin cells made 30 years younger with new 'rejuvenation' technique

Wow:

"Researchers in the U.K. have developed a way to reverse the aging process in skin cells, turning back the biological clock by about 30 years."

https://www.livescience.com/skin-cell-rejuvenation-30-years-younger

I Found the CHEAPEST 32kWh LFP Battery

Impressively inexpensive. But from China, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKwydAn9Z28