Genes, Society & Disease

Why do so many young people suddenly have cancer? When you were born is actually an important risk factor for cancer.

Why do so many young people suddenly have cancer?
#cancer
#cancerresearch

Nope.. the higher up on the academics prestige you are, the easier it is to get crappy research published. The lower down, the harder it is to get good research published.

Have an Autoimmune Disease? Blame the Black Death The bubonic plague killed so many people in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa that that natural selection event is still rippling through our genomes...

Have an Autoimmune Disease? Blame the Black Death

Strong new evidence for T cell exhaustion in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) reflecting chronic viral infection, relevant to #LongCovid, and possible path to treatment candidates
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Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates New research shows aging is not a uniform process. Parts of our bodies start aging earlier than others, right down to our organs and cells.

Biomarkers of aging have a great potential for medical diagnostics. I am however a bit cautious as it is still uncertain if a blood based aging test is any better than currently accepted screening tests for organ specific diseases…
#aging
#biomarkers
#precisionmedicine

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests an Unexpected, Simple Treatment Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the development of Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests an Unexpected, Simple Treatment

Is a big-brained early hominid found in China a new species? Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a separate species.

Is a big-brained early hominid found in China a new species?

Measles: The Cancer Killer? Podcast Episode · Incubation · 11/26/2024 · 30m

Measles virus causes immune system “amnesia”. Listen to how the Measles vaccine reduce childhood mortality from other infectious diseases in addition to the measles. Great example of host-pathogen co-evolution.

First Cancer TCR Cell Therapy Approved by FDA FDA has approved the first cancer TCR cellular therapy. Tecelra, or afami-cel, is used to treat metastatic synovial sarcoma that’s positive for MAGE-A4.

A good friend of mine died at age 23 from this cancer, a type of sarcoma. I wish we had this new therapy back then.
#precisionmedicine
#cancerresearch

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Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates New research shows aging is not a uniform process. Parts of our bodies start aging earlier than others, right down to our organs and cells.

Biomarkers of aging have a great potential for medical diagnostics. I am however a bit cautious as it is still uncertain if a blood based aging test is any better than currently accepted screening tests for organ specific diseases…
#aging
#biomarkers
#precisionmedicine