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World Nanomedicine Universe Discussed by Kuick Research in New Market Study Recently Published at MarketPublishers.com

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Pharmacos are developing more effective drug delivery vehicles with the aid of nanotechnology. Lack of specificity induces undue drug wastage, reduced potency and undesirable side effects during treatment. This is a serious problem, especially when a patient is suffering from cancer, where the use of chemotherapy is part of therapeutic regimen. Easy modification, customisability and product cost are set to be the major factors determining the commercial success apart from their pharmacological benefits. Heavy investments in R&D are poised to assist in identifying effective nanoparticle-based drug delivery vehicles.

Manifold nanotechnology-based devices, medicines, chips and sensors are undergoing various stages of clinical trials. To date, there are 144 nanomedicines in clinical development. The majority of the nanomedicines are in pre-clinical development phase, followed by research phase. Only a limited number of products are in the market for few indications; currently, 13 nanomedicines are commercially available in the market. Their clinical pipeline is getting stronger year by year and novel incentives are being taken by pharmacos, but the rate of commercialisation of such products is slow and the market size is still limited. To surmount these barriers, the pace of R&D alongside market introduction needs to be increased in the offing. This would help generate a big chunk of revenues, however, it will take several years for nanomedicines to receive recognition as mainstream medicines. Judging by the pace at which they are growing, nanomedicines and associated medical technologies have bright future.

New research report Global Nanomedicine Market & Pipeline Insight 2015 developed by Kuick Research is now available at MarketPublishers.com.

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Title: Global Nanomedicine Market & Pipeline Insight 2015 Published: April, 2015 Pages: 330 Price: US$ 2,400.00 https://marketpublishers.com/report/medical_devices/other_medical_devices/global-nanomedicine-market-pipeline-insight-2015.html

The report offers a detailed guide to the worldwide nanomedicine (nanotherapeutic) marketplace. It provides deep insights into the nanomedicine mechanism, an analysis of the present-day market scenario and an overview of the nanomedicine product pipeline globally. The research report limelights the market dynamics covering major market driving factors and challenges, as well as peeps into the future development path of the sector. The study reviews the nanomedicine product clinical pipeline by indication, phase and company; discusses marketed nanomedicines by company and disease indication; sheds light on the suspended and discontinued nanomedicine clinical pipeline. The research publication delves in the competitive landscape along with profiling the major players.

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Comprehend complex data sets through visual representations

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Component technologies such as visualisation tools, modelling techniques and user interfaces have been heavily influencing the success of data visualisation (DV) solutions. As such, DV researchers and solution providers should form strategic alliances to drive advancements in component technologies. Only then can DV emerge as a holistic solution, which can deliver simplicity and a high level of user controllability.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Data Visualisation - An Outlook on Disruptive Techniques (http://www.frost.com/d549), forecasts that the DV technology value chain will bring more application developers into its fold by adopting core software technologies with features such as high agnosticism, ability to integrate easily, and plug-in options for a wide range of applications. This, in turn, will enable faster diffusion of DV technologies across various application segments.

For instance, with its efficient interface that can deal with heavy numbers and algorithms to considerably reduce the load on big data analytics engines, DV is on the verge of becoming the most indispensable technology for big data solution providers.

"Big data solution providers are beginning to realise the need for varied DV techniques to enhance their analytics capabilities," noted Technical Insights Senior Research Analyst Sathya Vendhan. "Small- and medium-sized DV solution providers are therefore likely to strike collaboration deals with big data companies in the next three to six years."

The rapid increase of DV in small-screen mobile devices is also propelling solution providers to extend their reach beyond companies to the individual customer level. Small- and medium- sized DV technology providers will begin to occupy a major part of the market, as solutions evolve to provide interactive visuals on day-to-day activities, health conditions and other vital information.

"DV solution providers will imbibe more customisation and personalisation techniques for product development," added Vendhan. "To facilitate this transformation, DV research firms will create algorithms, which can be used in simple mobile devices as well as integrated in any sector-specific application."

So far, however, it has been difficult for DV application developers to convert general algorithms to application-specific functionalities due to compatibility issues. To overcome this issue, the majority of DV solution providers in the market are now using open source-based algorithms.

The challenges for DV hardware technology developers have been slightly different. For large-scale DV systems, hardware technology developers need to develop processors and servers that can support the charting engines seamlessly. Moreover, they have to ensure the availability of high-quality RAM, which is required to perform complex analytics.

Notwithstanding the market challenges, DV is expected to have the maximum impact on social networking. The technology's ability to provide a full view of even the minute details of activities in the social network medium has set it up to become the most needed medium for marketing, entertainment, governance and crime investigation as well.

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Agnostic Catholic

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I BELIEVE in God for I had been raised God-fearing in a Catholic family. From generations then, Catholicism has run in the veins of my Kin. And this may well explain why since Kindergarten to elementary, high school toward college and graduate school, I had been in a sectarian Jesuit academic institution. With both forces at play -- family and school -- no doubt the Catholic faith has been reinforced to me like the Pavlovian conditioning or Skinners rewards and punishments.

As such, no doubt, I have known of prayers and doctrines that are of Catholic. I have memorized the different books of the bible, as well as the saints. I conform to Catholic traditions. I attend masses during Christmases, New Years, Holy Week and all other special masses aside from my birthday.

I have always been a conformist to the rituals of my Faith. And beyond dramaturgy or staged social interaction, I have always found the gospel and the bible insightful. I have always gleamed clarity to the lengthy homilies and litanies of the priest. I have always been moved by how their brief anecdotes capture the realities of daily living in the parallel world of good and evil.

But thats just it.

As I was growing up, I have seen the other side of the coin -- the abuses of some Catholic priests centuries ago with some of its remnants surviving the post-modern days. No one will argue in history classes that Spanish colonizers then "forced" their Western culture to our primitive ancestors under the banner of religion. If one closely examines history, was it not a social mechanism of control to use "garote" on Filipino heretics, who refuse to accept the Catholic faith. Most of the victims must have been our Muslim ancestors, thus, the division between some of the Catholics and Islam in the current era.

Likewise, if one examines the legitimacy then of kings, emperors and all the other monarchs, was it not a belief drenched and soaked in the fluidity of the notion that they were anointed by God and must be given the highest regard for they have been appointed to gain dominion over a certain land. Furthermore, who crowns these extensions of the divine? Was it not the popes from Rome?

One cannot help but think that to prevent questioning their legitimacy, religion is invoked to explain and justify.

As my mind sharpened, I began to be empiricist with my faith.

Am I to be blamed? I was trained to think scientifically and to be logical by the same Jesuit institution which conferred me my degree in nursing, although, they never made implicit to question Faith as it was beyond the realm of positivism.

Still, my destination toward agnosticism was furthered, as I entered the graduate school of the same Jesuit institution for the degree master of arts in sociology. This time, I have seen the fullest view of religion in the sociological and anthropologic context. Surrounded by the professors, whom I assumed shared the same thoughts with me on religion sociologists and anthropologists as they are; I have been condition to view religion as opium of the oppressed that functions to reduce anxiety.

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School notes: FCPS students take home prizes at state science fair

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Two FCPS students take home grand prize awards at state science fair

Two Fairfax County public school students won grand prize awards at the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair.

FCPS students took first place in nine of the 17 categories in the fair, held March 27-28 at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

Ava Lakmazaheri of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology won the second grand prize in the fair and first prize for her project in the electrical and mechanical engineering category. Fellow TJ student Matthew Park won a grand prize runner-up award and first prize in the microbiology category for his project.

Both Lakmazaheri and Park qualified to compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, scheduled for May 10-15 in Pittsburgh.

FCPS students from TJ, Madison, Marshall and West Potomac also took home first-place awards in seven other categories: behavioral and social science; computer science; earth and planetary science; energy and transportation; environmental management; physics and astronomy; and plant science.

The Unified Prevention Coalition will host two community forums on the dangers of alcohol abuse.

The forums will be held Tuesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. at Madison High School, and Wednesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Parents are encouraged to attend with their adolescent children.

The UPC is a nonprofit that partners with school and government officials and community groups to combat substance abuse. The events, under the headline The Perils of College Drinking Culture, will feature a screening and panel discussion of a documentary on binge drinking on college campuses.

Featured speakers and panelists will include Deputy Commonwealths Attorney Casey Lingan, Fairfax County Police Sgt. Dan Pang, and Inova Fairfax Hospital emergency physician Dr. William Hauda, among others.

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Russian oligarch offers $1m to the first person that lives to 123

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The large prize is being offered by businessman, Dmitry Kaminskiy He hopes money will help create a new group of 'supercenternarians' Jeanne Calment holds the record of oldest person, dying aged 122.5 He has made a $1m bet with Dr Alex Zhavoronkov on who will die first

By Zoltan Istvan For Dailymail.com

Published: 17:02 EST, 10 April 2015 | Updated: 19:23 EST, 10 April 2015

Dmitry Kaminskiy is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'

A Russian multi-millionaire whose dream it is to live forever has promised to give $1 million to the first person to reach the age of 123.

Dmitry Kaminskiy, a senior partner of Hong Kong-based firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures, is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'.

He says research into stem cells, tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine will allow people to live beyond 120 - an age that has been quoted as the 'real absolute limit to human lifespan'.

'We live in the most exciting era of human development when technologies become exponential and transformative,' Kaminskiy told DailyMail.com.

'They may not realise it, but some of the supercentenarians alive today may see the dawn of the next century if they live long enough for these transformative technologies to develop.

'I hope that my prize will help some of them desire longer lifespans and make their approaches to living longer a little more competitive.'

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Study Showing How Stem Cells Slow Aging May Lead To New Heart Failure Treatments

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Durham, NC /PRNewswire/ -- A new study published in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine demonstrates how mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) not only protect the heart from further damage after a cardiac incident but can actually slow down its aging process, too. These findings, in a rat model of the aging heart, could help propel stem cells to the forefront as a potential solution for more effective ways to treat heart conditions.

"This study is important as it suggests an alternative approach for treating heart failure in elderly patients," said Yanjie Lu, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the pharmacology department at Harbin Medical University (HMU) in Harbin, China, and a world-renowned expert on myocardial infarction. He led the study, conducted by colleagues at HMU.

Aging is a complex and multifaceted process, resulting in damage to molecules, cells and tissue that in turn leads to declining organs. Mesenchymal stem cells, found in bone marrow, can generate bone, cartilage and fat cells that support the formation of blood and fibrous connective tissue. These stem cells also can be coaxed in the laboratory into becoming a variety of cell types, from cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) and neurons, to osteoblasts, smooth muscle cells and more.

Several studies have already shown that MSCs can reverse age-related degeneration of multiple organs, restore physical and cognitive functions of aged mice, and improve age-associated osteoporosis, Parkinson's disease and atherosclerosis. Dr. Lu's team has been looking into the anti-aging benefits MSCs might have on the heart, too.

"We previously showed that MSCs offer an anti-senescence action on cardiomyocytes as they grow older," he explained. (Senescence is the condition or process of deterioration with age, including the loss of a cell's power to divide and grow.) "However, what we didn't know was whether these findings from a cellular model could be applied to more physiological conditions in whole animals. That's what we wanted to learn with this study."

They decided to explore their question using rats. After injecting MSCs into rat cardiomyoctyes being cultured in lab dishes and receiving encouraging results, they repeated the procedure on a group of young (4 months old) rats and old (20 months) rats, too. The results in both instances demonstrated that MSCs have a significant anti-aging effect.

"Our study didn't just unravel the efficacy of MSCs in fighting cardiac aging, it also delineated the mechanisms underlying this beneficial action," Dr. Lu explained. "The anti-aging effects could be ascribed to the MSCs anti-oxidative action. The results provide a novel strategy for retarding the cardiac aging process."

"This study helps unravel the efficacy of these cells in fighting cardiac aging and delineates the underlying mechanisms," said Anthony Atala, M.D., editor of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine and director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. "The results suggest a promising therapeutic approach for treating heart failure in the elderly population."

The full article, "Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation retards the natural senescence of rat hearts," can be accessed at http://www.stemcellstm.com.

About STEM CELLS Translational Medicine: STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM), published by AlphaMed Press, is a monthly peer-reviewed publication dedicated to significantly advancing the clinical utilization of stem cell molecular and cellular biology. By bridging stem cell research and clinical trials, SCTM will help move applications of these critical investigations closer to accepted best practices.

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Nanomedicine Aims New Treatments at Cancer and Dangerous Wounds

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Working on a very small scale lets scientists give drugs abilities denied to larger molecules

Harry Campbell

A molecule of DNA, holding its blueprint for life, is about 2.5 billionths of a meter in diameter. Scientists now have the ability to push and pull and build molecules of that size, as well as to create devices that sense them with unprecedented precision. These skills, gained through painstaking work during the past decade, are leading to new medicines and ways of diagnosing disease. In this special report, Scientific American examines what nanomedicine is bringing us now, what is coming soon and what the future will likely hold.

Right now chemotherapy is a major focus, and drugs that can slip into tumors because of their fine-grained construction are showing success where other medications fail patients [see Cancer Drugs Hit Their Mark, on page 44]. Diagnostic tests are also taking advantage of the small sizes, using probes of unusually shaped DNA that can detect cancer with remarkable accuracy. Next, in the near future, patients should be able to use smart bandages made with nano-sized molecules that enhance the healing of severe woundsor that signal doctors when healing is not happening [see A Smarter Bandage, on page 47]. Further out in time, researchers hope to attach tiny molecular motors to drugs, driving them through the bloodstream to their targets [see Launch the Nanobots! on page 50]. These are feats of nanoengineering, invisible to the eye, yet they could have an outsize effect on health.

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MAC's Math and Science Fair returns

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PARK HILLS For the 32nd spring in a row, the creative genius of the areas math and science students will be put on public display at Mineral Area College's Math and Science Fair.

The event is being held from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday in the Robert E. Sechrest Sr. Field House on the Park Hills campus.

"There cant be a math and science fair without great entries and the titles on this years entries promise to be particularly interesting," said Nancy Petersen, Math/Science Fair coordinator. "Theres no fee to enter the fair, but there is a payoff for all students who participate. The academic reward is apparent, of course, but each student also receives a certificate and a T-shirt thats been designed by the previous years T-Shirt Design winner."

She added that past top winning entries have walked away with scholarships, cash prizes, certificates toward higher education classes, scientific equipment and even a piece of a space shuttle.

Petersen said each student needs a sponsoring teacher to enter the fair, which is open to grades 6-12. The categories are behavioral and social science, biology, chemistry, computer science, Earth science, engineering, mathematics, physics, and product testing.

Petersen can be reached for more information at 573-518-2227 or npeterse@MineralArea.edu.

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Optimal Wellness meets opulence at Turnberry Isle Miami

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Dr. Ellen Lebow

Turnberry Isle Miami in Aventura, already legendary for luxurious opulence, is now featuring an Optimal Wellness Program designed to incorporate healthy choices into fabulous Turnberry Isle resort vacations.

In partnership with the award-winning Turnberry Spa, the Optimal Wellness Program is being co-directed by board certified physicians: Dr. Ellen Lebow, a fellowship trained anti-aging and regenerative medical specialist, and Dr. Michael Braun, cardiologist and internist, who chairs the Medical Department at Aventura Hospital. The Optimal Wellness program also unites the expertise of a team of nutritional, behavioral and spa experts.

Our Optimal Wellness Program is enabling Turnberry to offer several overnight package options for resort and spa guests as well as meeting groups and Turnberry Isle club members, explained Spa Director Tammy Pahel. Our goal is to elevate the spa experience by encouraging guests to take control of their health and fitness in a relaxing, opulent environment.

The prevention-based, restorative programs focus on everything from health, fitness, nutrition and stress management to hormone balance, heart health and mind-body treatments that are customized, based on personal goals and medical needs. There are opportunities for extensive evaluations and laboratory analysis to fully explore personal health histories or concerns. Guests can also consult with a nutritionist and have two private personal training sessions.

Dr. Michael Braun

Ranging from four to seven days, the choice of Optimal Wellness packages includes: Bio-Identical Hormone Restoration; Weight Management; Stress Management and Vital Living; and the Heart Health Executive Plan.

Its never too late or too early to begin a course to wellness, Dr. Braun emphasized. The Optimal Wellness Program at Turnberry Isle is implementing a research-proven prevention paradigm combining a healthy lifestyle of proper nutrition, exercise and stress reduction with state-of-theart traditional medicine.

Turnberry guests can now experience the benefits of both evidencebased functional medicine and traditional medicine to achieve optimal function and disease prevention, Dr. Lebow added. Journeys to personal wellness are through restoration with bioidentical hormones, nutrition, balance of body and mind and detoxification.

In addition to Optimal Wellness, overnight guests can be pampered at the Turnberry Spa with unlimited fitness classes and al la carte spa and salon services, enjoy the resorts opulent array of amenities including tropical pool decks, a Beach Club, two championship golf courses redesigned by Raymond Floyd, an elite Tennis Center and fine dining at Michael Minas Bourbon Steak and Scott Conants Corsair.

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Neil Devyani Offscreen Chemistry | Shastri Sisters | EXCLUSIVE Interview | Colors – Video

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