Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

[lenny]

Are you cleaning your water bottle enough?

Are you cleaning your water bottle enough?

Every time you take a sip from your water bottle, you are depositing bacteria inside and over the course of a day these can multiply by the millions. Should you be worried?

www.bbc.com

 

[lenny]

Woman who lived to age 117 had genes keeping her cells ‘younger’, study shows
Maria Branyas Morera, US-born supercentenarian who died in Spain last August, found to have microbiota of an infant

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/13/supercentenarian-aging-genes-study

 

[lenny]

Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

The reality is that chewing gum is just another form of plastic pollution, but it is not treated as such.

theconversation.com

 

[lenny]

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6685208

 

[lenny]

At 95, He’s the World’s Oldest Speedskater. He’s Gunning for 100.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/asia/japan-speedskater-age-record.html

 

[lenny]

Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Find

Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Find

Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[lenny]

My 16-month theanine self-experiment
"Many people try theanine and report wow or great for ADHD or cured my (social) anxiety or changing my life. And it’s not just the placebo enthusiast community. This hacker news thread is full of positive reports, and gwern uses it regularly."

My 16-month theanine self-experiment

randomized and blinded, N=1

dynomight.net

 

[lenny]

Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/timeframe-8-hour-restricted-eating-irrelevant-weight-loss

 

[lenny]

Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
Sydney surgeons ‘enormously proud’ after patient in his 40s receives the Australian-designed implant designed as a bridge before donor heart

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/12/australian-man-survives-100-days-with-artificial-heart-in-world-first-success

 

[lenny]

Sweetener aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413125000063

 

[lenny]

The Finnish Allergy Programme 2008–2018 works

https://publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/49/6/1700470

 

[lenny]

Bispecific antibodies targeting the N-terminal and receptor binding domains potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5720

 

[lenny]

Hair loss drug finasteride can cause debilitating side-effects, men say

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hair-loss-drug-finasteride-side-effects-1.7483898

 

[lenny]

Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success

Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells extremely efficiently, without needing to go through the intermediate step of converting them to stem cells first.

newatlas.com

World's first "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cells

World's first "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cells

The world's first "biological computer" that fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to form fluid neural networks has been commercially launched, ushering in a new age of AI technology. The CL1, from Australian company Cortical Labs, offers a whole new kind of computing intelligence – one…

newatlas.com

 

[lenny]

This MRI Can Run on Batteries
Axana is a portable MRI that could give stroke patients a head start for treatment

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

Axana is a portable MRI that could give stroke patients a head start for treatment

spectrum.ieee.org

 

[lenny]

Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage – And It’s a Game-Changer

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-discovered-an-rna-that-repairs-dna-damage-and-its-a-game-changer/

 

[lenny]

Metformin-regulated glucose flux from the circulation to the intestinal lumen

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-00755-4

 

[lenny]

Parkinson's treatment closer as problematic protein imaged for first time

Parkinson's treatment closer as problematic protein imaged for first time

Scientists have finally pinned down a protein that’s largely responsible for Parkinson’s disease. Known as PINK1, the protein has been linked to the disease for decades but its structure and how to switch it back on have remained elusive – until now.

newatlas.com