Medicine Medical Science Thread

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Graphene based neural implants get around problems with metallic brain computer interface chips. Tested in large animals they are beginning tests in humans.

Next-Gen Brain Implant Uses a Graphene Chip

A brain-computer interface from the startup Inbrain could be used to treat Parkinson's disease

spectrum.ieee.org

 

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For more than 30 years stem cells have promoted as being a potential cure for many ills. Sadly the results have fallen miles behind the hype. This recent breakthrough uses stem cells to produce insulin and has kept an insulin dependent diabetic off insulin for 12 months.

"Functional cure" for diabetes restores insulin production with stem cells

A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease, requiring no insulin doses for over a year. The treatment involves growing and transplanting new insulin-producing cells from the patient’s own stem cells.

newatlas.com

There is a down side, life long immunosuppression is required.

 

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Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun the guys who discovered microRNA while studying worm growth have won the 2024 Nobel Prize for medicine. A very well deserved award because the discovery of microRNA changed everything and has led to a much better understanding of how genes are controlled and cells divide, grow and specialise. Many of the treatments for cancer we sill see through this century will be based on this knowledge.

Nobel prize in medicine awarded for discovery of microRNAs, the molecules that control our genes

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun changed our understanding of how the body works and opened up a new area of science.

theconversation.com