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The sun against smoking

May 20, 2016

Smokers, you are warned: exposing yourself to the sun's rays is especially good for you, given that the action of the sun, as has just been demonstrated, mitigates the damage caused by cigarette smoking. The news was revealed by a Swedish study just published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, a study conducted on 30 thousand women. “The study which began in 1990 involved Swedish women aged between 25 and 64 – stated Girolomoni, Director of Dermatology of Verona and president of the… Read more

Here is the new artificial skin from MIT

April 11 2022May 12, 2016

MIT in Boston, Massachusetts has successfully created the first artificial skin. This new development could lead to huge advances in prosthetic technology and treatments for burns and other skin injuries. How is artificial leather made? Artificial skin is made from sheets of collagen that have been coated with a special type of sugar molecule. When this artificial skin is implanted under human skin, it bonds with the natural tissue of… Read more

Venter: Big data will make us live well beyond one hundred years

November 17, 2015

Lifespans could very soon begin to rocket upwards beyond three-digit numbers. According to David Agus and Craig Venter, we are on the eve of an extraordinary medical revolution: Agus, Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California, declared very precisely that the average lifespan will very soon reach around 100 years. Craig Venter, co-founder and head of Human Longevity inc. relaunches by stating that there is no limit to the years we could live, except the capacity... Read more

In nanomachine towards the future

November 5, 2022November 17, 2011

It's not the first and it won't be the last. Scientists from the University of Groningen (Holland) and the Empa research center (Switzerland) have created a nanometric transport system equipped with four motor units (translation: a “namomachine”). It's electric, four nanometers long and every half turn of the wheels has to fill up... It works thanks to a scanning tunneling microscope positioned above it, which transmits a tiny electric charge that causes reversible structural changes in the wheels (translation: … Read more

Repairing the damage of time will 'cure' you from old age

November 8, 2011November 7, 2011

Day after day this ambitious goal is starting to become reality thanks to the progress of biomedical research. For several years, researchers have believed that the cells most damaged by aging, called "senescent", damage the surrounding tissue causing many of the pathologies characteristic of old age. These cells, which have stopped dividing due to the ravages of time, continue to secrete large quantities of molecules, many of which are toxic, in the surrounding environment. In a study recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, scientists from "Mayo ... Read more

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