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POPSIsrael doing big things with nanotechnology Over the next five to 10 years we'll see nanotech applications take off. Most of the first will probably be in the medical field. Most of the nanoparticles were excreted out through urine and feces within four days. Like it or not it's coming our way... Clothing, food, medicine, technology, in your water... Imagine taking a shower, your skin! exposed to a cocktail of nanoparticles. Science Rules?
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POPS#eco #consumer EPA May Approve This that Health Scientists... cc. @Alexandrafunfit @DuQuellaTile
Thanks to @Alexandrafunfit for giving me the news for this fabric detergent and softener. The question was,"Is this product good to use...safer??" Yep, something's in this fabric detergent cum softener. Why would a pesticide be in our garments? The other thing that gave me the goosebumps was at the word "NANO technology". I know for sure, any product advanced by nanotech cannot be regulated by the Organic Consumers' Organization (OrganicConsumers.org has been doing a great job warning consumers of problems in personal care products and food for many years now.) Nanotech "materials" usually involve some kind of genes being altered somewhere, and is often found in vaccines, medicine, cosmetics and organ transplants. The potential dangers of GMO material such Lysostaphin, I think, can go well beyond those of what GMO food has shown. The active ingredient responsible for killing MRSA - which AOL news referred to as "Nanosilver" - is actually "Lysostaphin". Lysostaphin m
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POPSNaturalNews: Stunning Research Shows High Potential for DNA Damage from Nanoparticles They found that although no particles crossed the cellular membrane, fibroblast cells placed across from the metal particles suffered DNA damage in 10 times as many locations and cells placed next to a membrane with nothing on the other side. Researchers are unsure how the particles damaged the cells without crossing the membrane, but they believe they may cause changes in the membrane cells, which in turn signal the fibroblast cells and cause DNA damage. "We used a variety of chemicals to block ... cell-to-cell signaling and found that in the presence of these blockers, the damage we were seeing was completely prevented," lead author Gevdeep Bhabra said. nano- or micro-sized particles to reach the concentrations used in the study. The implications of the study center more around the risks of actual nanotechnology.
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POPSNanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy Dr. Ho and his research team engineered surface-modified nanodiamond particles that successfully and efficiently delivered DNA into mammalian cells. The delivery efficiency was 70 times greater than that of a conventional standard for gene delivery. That's just great! :D
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POPSNano RNA Delivery Novel delivery agents could mean a more targeted way to turn off disease genes. The MIT researchers, however, developed a way to make more than a thousand different delivery agents in parallel using a simple, one-step chemical process. And that allowed the team to quickly discover effective delivery molecules, including several that surprised the researchers. "We wouldn't have necessarily sat down and said, this is a structure that's going to work," says Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. "It was only by making and testing over a thousand that we were able to get to that place."
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POPSChimps Are More Evolved than Humans "It's human egotism to put us on a pedestal," says molecular anthropologist Morris Goodman of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. "I was attracted to the paper because it seemed to be chipping away at this desire to make us all that extra-special. At the molecular level, humans are not necessarily exceptional in terms of the adaptive changes."
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POPSElectrodes from the couch A new device that measures brain waves could help solve the first problem. While it may take patients several weeks of medication to feel better, previous research has shown that brain-activity changes measured via electroencephalogram (EEG) can, within just one week, predict if that medicine will help. Patients who are likely to improve show a decrease in activity in certain parts of the brain.
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