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cferiante

Forced Organ Harvesting in China Is Medical Genocide for Profit - 0 views

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    "According to Theresa Chu, a lawyer with the Taiwan Falun Gong Attorney Group, "Forced organ harvesting is not only used to carry out the … genocide of Falun Gong practitioners and ethnic minority groups, such as Uyghurs, but also implicated in massive economic profits from organ transplantation, transnational organ sale, transplant tourism, and organ brokerage.""
jamesm9860

Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines - 2 views

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    Another article about nanotechnology and plants--only the plants would be grown to be edible vaccines. Instead a shot in the arm, you could eat a salad.
jamesm9860

Nanotechnology provides novel solutions against zoonotic viruses - 0 views

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    Talks about using nanotechnology for detection of zoonic viruses (transmitted from animals). Nanotech allows the rapid identification and subsequently a rapid cure for the virus.
jamesm9860

Why you should feel optimistic about the future of healthcare - Say - 1 views

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    Kind of a general article on how nanotechnology will be used in the future in medicine. (H3)
dexlam

The once and future gene therapy | Nature Communications - 2 views

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    Please be sure to select some text that gives us a sense of the "scan hit"
jeff0brown0

Deafness and hearing loss - 0 views

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    - By 2050 nearly 2.5 billion people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss and at least 700 will require hearing rehabilitation. - Over 1 billion young adults are at risk of permanent, avoidable hearing loss due to unsafe listening practices. - An annual additional investment of less than US$ 1.40 per person is needed to scale up ear and hearing care services globally. - Over a 10-year period, this promises a return of nearly US$ 16 for every US dollar invested.
laurentarin

What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There? | WIRED - 0 views

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    The article notes some hesitation and confliction between wireless monitoring of patients from false alarms and disconnect between patient care vs ease and accessibility to spread care to underserved communities.
laurentarin

'Neurograins' Could be the Next Brain-Computer Interfaces | WIRED - 0 views

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    "Dozens of microchips scattered over the cortical surface might allow researchers to listen in on thousands of neurons at the same time." These microchips will work to record brain activity and may also "stimulate neurons...to to explore for treating brain disorders like epilepsy and Parkinson's or restoring brain function lost to injury" Currently this system is being tested on rats but there are still challenges to overcome such as how to get the chips across and in the human brain with the goal of being a less invasive alternative and how to organize and collect all the data that could be transmitted.
cferiante

'World's Lightest' Baby, Born the Weight of an Apple, Goes Home After 13 Mont... - 0 views

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    "A baby girl born in Singapore weighing the same as an apple is believed to be the world's lightest baby to survive a premature birth and be discharged healthy. She finally headed home with her grateful parents after 13 months of fighting for her life in the hospital. Kwek Yu Xuan was born at 24 weeks and 6 days gestation on June 9, 2020, at Singapore's National University Hospital (NUH). At birth, she weighed just 212 grams (0.46 pounds), making her lighter than the smallest survivor on the Tiniest Babies Registry managed by the University of Iowa."
cferiante

New Documentary Reveals the Chinese Regime's Live Organ Harvesting Enterprise - 0 views

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    "Last year, two reports were published that broadened our picture of the scale and method of this atrocity. "Bloody Harvest/ The Slaughter-An Update" by investigators David Matas, David Kilgour, and Ethan Gutmann was released on June 22 in Washington, D.C. This report shows detailed evidence of the massive number of organ transplants taking place in Chinese hospitals. It analyzed hospital revenue, bed counts and utilization rates, surgical personnel, and other data and reached the conclusion that China is performing 60,000 to 100,000 transplants per year, far exceeding the Chinese government's claim of 10,000 per year."
jamesm9860

Overcoming Divides and Removing Obstacles to Recovery - 0 views

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    Article/presentation by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva where she talks about the current state of things--vaccinations, the economy, and a divergence in economic fortunes around the world is even more evident today.
lizardelam

Role of bacterial motility in differential resistance mechanisms of silver nanoparticle... - 0 views

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    Basically - bacteria will find a way around, even silver nanoparticles. "The results are promising for being able to tune particle properties for a desired response, such as high efficacy while avoiding resistance."
lizardelam

New Nano tech as strong as titanium - 2 views

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    Biological, non-toxic and able to create a "healthy" current in the body (think heartbeat.)
lizardelam

Tiny, wireless, injectable chips use ultrasou | EurekAlert! - 4 views

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    The size of a dust mite, many we don't need be chipped, we will be injected.
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    I have been hearing about injectable robots the size of a dust mite that repair your cells but I can't remember where. Very interesting!
jeff0brown0

Pacemaker-Like Personalized Brain Stimulation Relieves Patient's Chronic Depression | ... - 0 views

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    Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have revealed results suggesting that personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) can produce a sustained antidepressant effect by targeting a brain circuit linked to low mood.
jamesm9860

The Role of Nanotechnology in the Improvement of Crop Production - - 1 views

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    Article talks about use of nanotechnology in growing crops with more nutrients (much of what we grow today doesn't have the nutrient value it once did) for healthier eating (H2)
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