Folding@home is a brillant project started here at Stanford University which is a programming you can download free for Windows, Mac or Linux and runs in the background. It utilises your unused CPU cycles to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. If you have a Playstation 3 then you can also use it for Folding@home, there is an FAQ here.
ImmInst have their own team within this, which you can find out more about by clicking here
A short film by the LifeStar World Health Initiative, with some rather exciting ideas, will they come true? Who knows but I sure want to find out, don’t you!? If possible this stuff seems to important not to support as much as we can.
British scientists have developed a stem cell technique which is being used by patients to avoid hip replacements, in a major medical breakthrough.
A patient’s stem cells was used to rejuvenate his dead hip bone, using purified cells from bone marrow extracted from the back of his pelvis. Photo: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Doctors in Southampton are using the pioneering technique, where a patient’s damaged bones are repaired using their own stem cells.
Patients hailed the treatment, after many found they could walk normally again without any pain and without the need for hip replacement surgery.
Aubrey De Grey certainly seems to get around! Here’s the latest from him talking about SENS, check out the web ste for some background (http://www.sens.org/) on the project or watch the videos, the following is made up of four parts, the next part should play automatically when you are done with each part…hopefully. It’s aimed at Scientists but I think it mostly makes sense, but if not try the FAQ on the SENS site first by clicking here.
