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re: Jawless fish take a bite out of the blood-brain barrier
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:04 pm to Trumansfangs
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:04 pm to Trumansfangs
This demonstrates why bio-diversity is so important. Some little thing you find from an animal species you would think has zero benefit for humanity can be vitally important in improving human health and well being.
Funding science is never going to be popular with most folks. They love the benefits of science but actually having to pay to find and develop those benefits will get them all up in arms.
Which is short sighted in many ways. Yes, we won't get those benefits if we don't fund research into them... but history has repeatable shown that the country with the best science is usually the country that winds up on top of the heap.
As I get off my soap box... its worth noting that leeches, of all things, have made a limited come back in medicine for certain medical procedures where their particular biology gives us something modern medicine can't duplicate. Its an amazing world out there folks.
Funding science is never going to be popular with most folks. They love the benefits of science but actually having to pay to find and develop those benefits will get them all up in arms.
Which is short sighted in many ways. Yes, we won't get those benefits if we don't fund research into them... but history has repeatable shown that the country with the best science is usually the country that winds up on top of the heap.
As I get off my soap box... its worth noting that leeches, of all things, have made a limited come back in medicine for certain medical procedures where their particular biology gives us something modern medicine can't duplicate. Its an amazing world out there folks.
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Posted on 5/16/19 at 7:28 am to Arksulli
Definitely agreed about Biodiversity. Not just for these possible medical breakthroughs, but because without it we are literally fricked as a species. We are still a 100+ years out from anything close to resembling ST tech... if we get there.
The Amazon Rainforest is still pumping out possibilities for medical cures and most of it is still unknown.
Humans gonna human though and frick everything up.
Anyway. I’m more curious about the applications for PD and Alzheimer’s. Particularly PD since Ldopa has a limited effect window because it can’t cross the BBB. Be a game-changer to finally get an effective treatment.
The Amazon Rainforest is still pumping out possibilities for medical cures and most of it is still unknown.
Humans gonna human though and frick everything up.
Anyway. I’m more curious about the applications for PD and Alzheimer’s. Particularly PD since Ldopa has a limited effect window because it can’t cross the BBB. Be a game-changer to finally get an effective treatment.
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