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Blue Blood

It’s blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and saves countless human lives. It’s the blood of horseshoe crabs, and for decades it’s proved vital to biomedical companies that must screen vaccines, IV fluids, and medical devices for bacteria that can be fatal in our bloodstream. Thanks to proteins in cells that act like a primitive immune system, the crabs’ blood coagulates instantly when it touches pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella.

So sensitive is the test derived from the proteins that it can detect amounts as slight as one part per trillion. That’s like one grain of sugar in an Olympic-size pool, says John Dubczak of test producer Charles River, Endosafe. Now Princeton University researchers are looking at another approach using synthetic molecules that replicate antimicrobial peptides found on the skin of African clawed frogs. That would take some of the heat off horseshoe crabs—if it can match the sensitivity of their millions-year-old strategy.

—Luna Shyr

#Blood #hoshoe crabs #vaccines #ivs #medicine #vaccine production #interesting #ocean life

❝Bear in mind that since medications do not fix anything, they allow the underlying problem to continue uncorrected and actually accelerate. Meanwhile, new symptoms and new seemingly unrelated diseases are the inevitable consequence of this biochemical faux pas. Furthermore, drug side effects are the leading cause of death. NSAIDs as an example of only one group of medications, are fatally toxic to thousands of people each year by damaging joints, lungs, kidneys, eyes, hearts, and intestines. And they are covered by insurance. You've been led to believe you have no control, when in truth you're the one who must take control. ❞

Sheryl Rogers

#Anatomy #art #surgery

Clip Compilation from Michael Moors's Documentary on the corrupt healthcare system of America verses the rest of the industrialized world.

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Pavel Tchelitchew, Anatomical Painting, 1946.

buddhistwitchery

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Miguel Angel Ruiz (via buddhistwitchery)

lazyyogi

Don’t you see that all your problems are your body’s problems—food, clothing, shelter, family, friends, name, fame, security, survival—all these lose their meaning the moment you realize that you may not be a mere body.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via lazyyogi)

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Naturaleza Muerta (Tondo) (1942)

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This list created by Karen Knowler and Sarah Best (of Get Fresh! magazine) from eavesdropping on our own conversations and those of others over the past few years…

I mean, could you get any more win-wins from your food?!

“To have unlimited energy”

“To increase my clarity”

“To reach my...