Covering the ongoing biomedical revolution emancipating humanity from disease and disability, with emphasis on brain and spinal cord disorders. #Transhumanism
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#Disability Studies claims to speak for all #disabled people—but it’s a privileged minority’s luxury belief
Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) and I discuss the roots of Disability Studies, how it harms the disabled & alternative approaches
Is #transhumanism the way forward?
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The artificial lung system kept the man alive without his lungs for 48 hours before he could receive a double lung transplant
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Improving complex cardiology care with a large language model: a randomized trial (not real world) shows support with AI led to substantial improvement in accuracy and less time
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A new generation of engineered immune cell destroys cancer cells in mice as effectively as conventional CAR-T-cell therapies without suppressing the immune system
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The phrase "reimagine disability " drives me insane.
The core idea seems to be "If everyone just thought about #disability the way that I, the enlightened Critical Disability Theorist, do, that would change everything!"
It's a strange sort of collective solipsism; Narcissism masquerading as empathy and philosophical insight.
Instead of reimagining disability, we should re-engineer ability through #biotech and #neurotech
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What if intending to move could help restore #mobility? @psychtoday says new data shows noninvasive #brain signals can reveal attempted movement in those with #paralysis, an early but powerful step toward thought-driven support and renewed independence: bit.ly/4kl5rYb
There is no permanently polite way to directly acknowledge that someone has a significant cognitive impairment. We must separate the concepts of capability, intellectual or otherwise, with moral worth, which is rooted in common humanity. Instead of tiptoeing around the issue, we should accelerate the development of medical interventions to mitigate and reverse intellectual disability. Elimination of disability is a humanitarian duty, because disabled people deserve freedom and autonomy at least as much as they non-disabled.
Using it as an insult, or as part of the new right-wing campaign to overturn norms of civility, respect, and ordinary decency, is contemptible. But trying to ban the word, or to surrender to the mindset of taboo and treat it with awe and dread, are ill-advised. Context and intent are crucial: the word Jew can be used as a demeaning epithet, but that doesn't mean we should ban it.
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Noland Arbaugh, First Recipient, Neuralink, during a Plenary Session titled "Are We Ready for Human 2.0?":
"People come first. We need to make sure that what we're doing is improving the lives of people with disabilities. We're helping them first, and then an enhancement can come."
@ModdedQuad
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Surgeons build artificial lung system to keep patient without lungs alive for 48 hours until transplant.
Ankit Bharat & colleagues
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ALT graphical abstract outlining flow adaptive artificial lung from clincal challenge, to engineering solution, to biological insights and outcomes.
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We’ve spent decades treating cancer once it appears.
A new Nature study shows a vaccine can train the immune system to recognize Lynch syndrome-associated cancer mutations before disease even begins.
This could be a total a paradigm shift in cancer prevention.
Teaching #disabled people to frame issues this way does no favors to their mental health
It's only use is to stoke highly-motivated but ill-informed activism
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Scientists have developed a gene-editing technique using CRISPR that can remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome in lab-grown cells — a landmark step toward therapies that tackle the condition at its genetic root 🌐👉 msn.com/en-in/health/health-…
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Gentrification of disability in a nutshell: experience an extremely mild expression of an ailment. Universalize your way of dealing with it. Reject the experience of those who experience severe expressions of the condition. It happens on the extreme left and the extreme right
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Tokyo Scientists Block Alzheimer’s at Molecular Level 🧠 scitechdaily.com/scientists-…
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The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly”
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A protein that cleans up dementia-causing tau proteins in the brain could be key to prevention, a study finds. "It’s the first time we’ve been able to screen human neurons for genes that determine their resilience," Martin Kampmann (@MartinUCSF) says. ucsfh.org/4k9PR1u
Subscribe to my channel for long-form videos on emerging technologies for ending #disability.
Next up, a video on #brain #omics, part of a planned BRAIN TRILLOGY.
Part 2: brain damage repair
Part 3: Brain-computer interface
#futureofmedicine
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Microglia feet are highly dynamic and can be in contact with dense networks of axons.
In this video by our #ElectronMicroscopy team using MICrONS data, a microglia (purple) contacts with an excitatory pyramidal neuron (gold). Slowly the axons under the feet are revealed.
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Brain implants are beginning to help people with severe disabilities to speak and even sing in near-real time
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