Research
MIT Chemists Finish A 50-Year Synthesis Of Verticillin A, A Fungal Molecule Aimed At Deadly Childhood Brain Tumors
Health News
Gennaio 7, 2026
MIT Chemists Finish A 50-Year Synthesis Of Verticillin A, A Fungal Molecule Aimed At Deadly Childhood Brain Tumors
MIT and Harvard Medical School reported the first total synthesis of (+)-verticillin A, isolated in 1970. A 16-step route from beta-hydroxytryptophan produced the natural product and designed variants. Derivatives cut…
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
International News
Agosto 20, 2024
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
Tomorrow.Bio, Alcor, and the Cryonics Institute store legally dead patients in liquid nitrogen for six-figure fees. No human has been revived. Organ vitrification research is advancing. Whole-body revival is not.
Eight Minutes of Recalled Anger Cut Blood Vessel Dilation in Half, Columbia Researchers Find — Sadness and Anxiety Did Not
Health News
Maggio 1, 2024
Eight Minutes of Recalled Anger Cut Blood Vessel Dilation in Half, Columbia Researchers Find — Sadness and Anxiety Did Not
A Columbia trial found that eight minutes of recalled anger cut blood-vessel dilation by more than half. Anxiety and sadness, run through the same protocol, left the arteries alone.