Alzheimer’s has two main indicators. In one, amyloid proteins form clots that muddle communication between brain cells. In the other, proteins called tau, which normally carry nutrients to brain cells, start to tangle in dying cells and block the flow of nutrients, speeding up cells’ death spiral. Researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine...
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Human clinical trials are years away. But this opens a new pathway of research that shows promise in slowing, and perhaps even halting Alzheimer’s, once symptoms have shown themselves.
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The digital doctor will see you now
Artificial intelligence has passed China’s medical board exams. Now it’s time for AI to start working with patients. The need is urgent: there are only 1.5 doctors per thousand people in China, compared to 2.5 in the US. That makes Chinese physicians less concerned about AI stealing their jobs, and more concerned about just getting...
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AI is becoming capable of not only making routine medical analyses and decisions, but also of making difficult diagnoses that require subtle interpretations of evidence. Because AI’s memory can instantly access thousands, or even tens of thousands of cases and their outcomes, it has an increasingly fine sense of what evidence is available in order...
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Clean water shortage
Confirming one of Gerald Celente’s major long-term predictions, NASA says that finding enough fresh water will be humanity’s major challenge of the 21st century. The conclusion was drawn from data gathered by tracking global freshwater trends from 2002 through 2016, though NASA’s Gravity Research and Climate Experiment. The study also found that freshwater losses are...
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Water infrastructure will be one of the most urgent and lucrative areas of investment, but it remains fraught. Especially in low-income communities, people have been sensitized to being abused by for-profit water companies. The most trouble-free investment opportunities will be found in the developing world, in modest-scale projects having local input.
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Harvesting water from thin air
In the wake of NASA’s new report warning that potable water scarcity is the next human crisis, people will be looking to collect water from places previously thought useless to look, like deserts. No stranger to water shortages, researchers at the University of California have developed a way to coax water from Arizona’s arid air...
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Harvesting water from air and fog sounds sci-fi but will be rich areas for tech-savvy entrepreneurs and funders in the years ahead.
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Total recall
The emergency room of Paris’s Saint-Joseph Hospital now offers patients trips to other worlds, while they have their wounds stitched up or burns cleaned and salved. Patients can don new VR gear and take a guided tour to distant lands, play music, or engage in a range of engaging activities, taking their minds away from...
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VR has been used to reduce awareness of dental pain, but this is among the very first use in hospital situations. Trials also are under way to use VR to help people reduce the use of prescription pain medications, to curb the widespread overuse of opioids.