The fat cats are pouring their billions into the development of life extension therapies that can halt or reverse aging. How much time can they buy? By Dona Suri The story of…
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Yoga: benefits and cautions
There are yoga phonies and there are knowledgeable, genuine yoga teachers. Crank up your common sense and switch on your bullshit detector when choosing. By Dona Suri Maybe you haven’t yet tried…
Reversing fatty liver … from mitochondria up
A drug effective against long covid and fatty liver disease has entered final trials. The process of drug-discovery is just as amazing as the drug itself. By Dona Suri A new drug,…
Monitoring devices keep you out of the hospital
Patient-monitoring devices are getting more sophisticated every day. They ease strain on the healthcare system and enable high quality care at lower cost. By Dona Suri Here’s an imaginary patient – we’ll…
AI and the future of healthcare
AI is already accelerating the pace of medical and pharmaceutical research. It will also improve healthcare, and ultimately make it cheaper. By Dona Suri It’s only been about a year since Chat…
Tiny ‘inscriptions’ hold secrets of insulin
By Dona Suri Mysterious ‘inscriptions’ ? … Yes! But first, a quick review of the basics of diabetes: Nearly 500 million people all over the world suffer from diabetes. It is a…
Natural Killer Engaging Nanodrones for Dummies
By Dona Suri A team of researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Korea) has created a “nanodrone” that binds and transports Natural Killer (NK)* cells straight into the…
C. auris: Scary anyway you look at it
By Dona Suri Candida auris hit the headlines a couple years ago and went straight to the top of the Scary News List. It didn’t help that about the same time we…
You have forgotten covid? Covid remembers YOU!
By Dona Suri The first two weeks of December saw the average daily covid hospitalizations in the USA rise by 15.8 percent. It’s no surprise: for the past three years, covid infections…
Winter vs Sensitive Lungs
By Dona Suri WHEN temperatures fall, asthma cases rise. And not just asthma either. Winter is also a miserable time of year for people who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis…