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jwilson13 almost 9 years ago | link | on: 600 million years ago, a single gene mutation which led to multi-cellular animal life

link to paper- http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e10147

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jwilson13 edited over 7 years ago | link | on: Do any of you know of any companies that allow you to bank your own blood for later use?

@rhonda http://www.idant.com/BloodBank/WhyIdant.aspx

No knowledge or experience with them, just found it on google, but it looks like one of the few places that does offer long term storage of blood (or semen…)
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  rhonda over 9 years ago | link
  
  Thanks. Guess I will look into it. Must be others doing this.

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jwilson13 over 9 years ago | link | on: Apple ResearchKit announced, lets users contribute data to research

Over 10K participants sign up for Stanford medical trial after ResearchKit debut

http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/15/03/11/over-10k-participants-sign-up-for-stanford-medical-trial-after-researchkit-debut

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rhonda almost 10 years ago | link | on: Elevated resting heart rate, physical fitness and all-cause mortality

@carlsonbjj The Levine paper on resting heart rate being associated with longevity in mammals is interesting because it shows there is an inverse relationship between heart rate and life expectancy across different mammal species. My resting heart rate ranges from 57-59.
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  carlsonbjj almost 10 years ago | link
  
  Nice! What do you use to track that? Finger measurement or a certain device?
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    rhonda almost 10 years ago | link
    
    Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has one built in, also measures blood oxygen levels, pretty sweet.
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      jwilson13 almost 10 years ago | link
      
      There are apps that use the camera on an iPhone to measure your heart rate too (not oxygen levels though). I use the Withings Health Mate app, it’s free, as is an account on their site where it will put the data in a nice graph for you too. http://www.withings.com/us/health-mate.html

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jwilson13 almost 10 years ago | link | on: For Teens, Falling Asleep Gets Harder with More Screen Time

I know this study just looked at teens, but screen time is probably affecting everybody’s sleep. It reminded me of this article - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827094211.htm Unfortunately I’m still on my phone or iPad up until right before I go to bed….

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rhonda almost 10 years ago | link | on: 3D-printing technologies used to give people prosthetic hands, replicate tumors to understand cancer, & create model organs to practice operations.

@jwilson13 This is cool! Have you seen this article? 3D printing has been successfully used to replace jaw, skull, spinal fusion, vertabra, heel, & hip in people. http://www.gizmag.com/seven-life-changing-surgeries-3d-printing/35186/
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  jwilson13 edited over 7 years ago | link
  
  @rhonda Thanks! I hadn’t seen that other article. Pretty amazing.
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    rhonda almost 10 years ago | link
    
    Indeed.