Our Website: https://www.findinggeniuspodcast.com/ Subscribe and review our Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2L6tN88 Follow us on: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/futuretechpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/finding_genius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findinggeniuspodcast/ Rickettsia characteristics include parasitic behaviors but they are not worms or protozoa. Rather, they are bacteria and are therefore prokaryotes. The rickettsia family consists of obligatory intracellular bacteria that are transmitted by arthropod vectors. In other words, they need to be inside living cells to stay alive. Dr. Walker explains to listeners 1. How rickettsia diseases interact with the immune system in a variety of ways, 2. Why their lack of motility outside of living cells makes rickettsia treatment challenging, and 3. How the typhus group of rickettsia has affected history and how Dr. Walker hopes to develop a vaccine. David H. Walker, MD, is a professor in the Department of Pathology and is the Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished University Chair in Tropical Diseases and Executive Director of the University of Texas MB Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease. He describes various rickettsia causes and symptoms, from the Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria transmitted by chiggers to others transmitted by lice and ticks. He explains the means by which scientists determined their inability to live outside of cells and how they are able to observe their invasion and infection with light microscopy. Their pathogenic effect is widespread, and Dr. Walker describes their effects on World War II and the Vietnam War through the lice vector and typhus spread. Rickettsia symptoms and attacks on the immune system vary greatly and he describes several examples in the two main groups of typhus and spotted fever rickettsia. For example, Rocky Mountain spotted fever bacteria are secreted from the saliva of the tick when it bites. The bacteria is then taken into the skin through phagocytic cells, spreads to the lymphatic cells, and drains into the blood stream and infects the endothelium cells all over the body. Dr. Walker has worked with rickettsia for 47 years and his particular focus now is on vaccine research and effective rickettsia treatment. For more, see his web page at the University of Texas Medical Branch, utmb.edu/pathology/faculty-directory/david-h-walker-md, and search his name in research systems for publications. Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK #rickettsial #rickettsiology #immunity #Findinggeniuspodcast #Healthpodcast #InternalMedicinepodcast #Biosciencespodcast ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vECVLH-EOd4

Our Website: https://www.findinggeniuspodcast.com/ Subscribe and review our Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2L6tN88 Follow us on: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/futuretechpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/finding_genius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findinggeniuspodcast/ Researcher Gopike Nair and her colleagues have produced in vitro cells that make insulin and have successfully implanted them in mice, curing them of type 1 diabetes. She shares her research with listeners, explaining 1. The difference between type 1 and 2 diabetes and how her research is applicable to both, 2. Some of the challenges in creating these cells and ones they face when entering a patient, and 3.The next milestone to overcome and an estimate of the timing before this therapy will be clinically available. Dr. Gopkia Nair is a stem cell biologist working as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been working on stem cell research and diabetes in order to reintroduce insulin-producing cells into patients who've lost these cells and suffer from diabetes type 1. She begins by explaining the physiology in different types of diabetic conditions and how these generated cells act like beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. While her focus is on type 1, she says the therapy will be applicable to both types. In order to explain how this therapy works, she explores the cause in more detail, reviewing the immune system's overdrive that attacks insulin-producing cells after some sort of trigger. Researchers have found that the disease starts at the beta cell level, exposing a certain protein on the surface that the immune system recognizes and attacks. Scientists are still not sure what the trigger is, but this helps them know they must address this in the cells they've created from the stem cells. She addresses different ways they are protecting the cells from the immune system and how they will introduce the cells into the body of the patient, most likely through a patch in a vascularized area. Finally, she expects this therapy to be available to patients in 5 to 10 years at the latest. For more, see her LinkedIn page and personal research web page. #StemcellTechnologies #diabetes #type1diabetes #Findinggeniuspodcast #Health #Medicine #Biosciences ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPN3sk1vta0

CHECK OUT THE COMPLETE EPISODE ? https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFY_8c4hymc How safe is it to travel and settle down in another country? ✈️ Andrew Henderson, the founder of Nomad Capitalist, which helps people get second citizenship through investment, reveals the reality he has witnessed from his travels to give those planning to travel a better idea of what to expect when they leave the country. Andrew shares that traveling to other countries is relatively safe, if not safer, than the US! But one factor that can greatly impact your experience abroad are the choices you make while you are there. It is always a good idea to be vigilant and well-informed when you go somewhere unfamiliar. ? This alone can help you AVOID becoming a statistic and cautionary tale to other travelers. What country have you traveled to that you consider to be a safe destination? Share your story down in the comments below. ? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdjFart6Fo

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