Thelasko shares a report from Medium: Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand Covid-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process — which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations — still took…
Tag: Kidneys
Breathing Habits Are Related To Physical and Mental Health
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal, written by James Nestor: Breathing is a missing pillar of health, and our attention to it is long overdue. Most of us misunderstand breathing. We see it as passive, something that we just do. Breathe, live; stop breathing, die. But breathing is not that simple and binary. How we breathe…
Man with back pain finds out he has 3 kidneys
Doctors got a surprise when they accidentally discovered that their patient had three kidneys. Source: https://www.livescience.com/man-three-kidneys-rare-condition.html
Here’s a look at the coronavirus’s complicated journey through the body
Doctors are seeing patients with severe symptoms who are developing damage in various organs, from the kidneys to the heart. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-damages-other-organs.html
Pig To Human Heart Transplants ‘Possible Within Three Years’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Adapted pig hearts could be transplanted into patients within three years, according to a report citing the surgeon who pioneered heart transplantation in the UK. On the 40th anniversary of the first successful heart transplant, Sir Terence English told The Sunday Telegraph that his protege from that operation would try to replace…
Video: Soon, kidneys-on-a-chip will rocket to space station
UW scientists are prepping a kidney-on-a-chip experiment at Cape Canaveral, Florida, awaiting a shuttle launch that will take the chips into space. At an altitude of 250 miles, astronauts will help study how reduced gravity in space affects kidney physiology. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-video-kidneys-on-a-chip-rocket-space-station.html…
Toxic Aluminum in Vaccines
Jon Rappport – There is a science library of studies referring to toxic aluminum in vaccines. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/15/toxic-aluminum-in-vaccines/…
Modern Love: I Had to Do It Without Telling My Beloved
Feeling grateful and able, I donated a kidney to a stranger. The only problem: I made the decision on my own. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/style/modern-love-kidney-donation-secret.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…