Health

Researchers in Bristol, Cambridge, London and the NHS have transfused lab grown blood to patients in a historic trial! The technology can improve treatment of people with blood disorders and…

Researchers at Oxford University have published in the New England Journal of Medicine a synthetic psilocybin pill for treatment resistant depression! #COMP360 #OxfordUniversity #SyntheticPsilocybin #NewEnglandJournalofMedicine https://hightimes.com/psychedelics/clinical-trial-examines-synthetic-psilocybin-as-a-treatment-for-severe-depression/

Scientists at the Yokohama National University of Japan have successfully grown hair follicles that grew hair in a lab! The experiment with mice hair and may pave the way for…

The Bezos family has donated $710 million to the Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington! The donation will fund 26 new research labs for cancer research. #JeffBezos #CancerResearch #FredHutchinsonCancerCenter #Donation…

Researchers at the University of Utah have successfully grown brain organoids in a lab! Grown from stem cells, the organoids were similar to human brains 15-19 weeks after conception. #BrainOrganoids…

A new blood type, Er, has been discovered by scientists in the U.K.! An ultra rare blood type, Er is the 44th blood grouping to be discovered, outside the popular…

A long time HIV patient has been cured after a transplant of blood stem cells at the City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, California. Though the procedure is not an…

New research in Senolytics drugs show initial promise of humans living to 200+ years! As medicine and science and human health conditions improve, we may just have to stay healthy…

Following positive Covid19 news out of India today, Thailand, the Land of Smiles, has also announced it will vaccinate 50% of its population in 2021, and aim for 70% by…

In more positive Covid19 news, India has announced it plans to vaccinate 300 million people by August 2021! India has the 2nd worst infection rate after the U.S. but has…

The end of the global pandemic nightmare has begun: Healthcare and frontline workers across the U.S. have begun to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.The U.K. has begun immunization last week,…

Finally some great Covid news: The first shipment of the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid Vaccine has shipped out from a Pfizer plant in Portage, Michigan! Some 184,000 vials of the…

Covid be gone! In positive news, the U.K. has become the first country to approve use of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. The U.K. has ordered 40 million doses of the vaccine…

Not all news in 2020 is bad: Scientists have announced the success of an experimental drug called ISRIB that has shown to reverse age-related cognitive decline in days! Scientists at…

In more positive Covid news, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency use of Regeneron’s monoclonal anti-bodies! The lab made antibodies prevent the spike proteins from attaching to…

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech have filed for an emergency authorization use from the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) today. With over 250,000 Americans dead and…

In more positive news about the Covid vaccine, Pfizer has announced that its vaccine is 95% effective in a final test result. The final data was based on a phase…

A light at the end of the tunnel: Following the announcements from Pfizer and Eli Lilly last week, Moderna has announced its vaccine shows a 94.5% effective rate! We may…

Animal meat alternatives continue to go mainstream! Pizza Hut has announced their Beyond Meat Italian Sausage Pizza. Many global fast food chains are now racing to make meat alternatives available…

Covid-19 Antibodies and Vaccine distribution has begun in earnest in the U.S. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has been given an emergency authorization use by the FDA on monday and will…