KILLING THE OLD AGE

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The answer: because there are dead people within us. Old cells, dying tissues causing us to wither slowly in a functional decline. Luckily, scientists such as Susan Short and her team are currently finding new ways to fend off old age in their quest to minimize cancer with our first step towards a future of anti-aging: senolytics.

In the hierarchy of life, the most fundamental units are its cells. Cells have the ability to grow, develop and perform quintessential functions in order for our bodies to stay alive. However, although cells have the ability to divide and reproduce itself, the number of times it does is actually limited. According to Short, once a cell divides to a point of un-dividing, it can never reproduce anymore. This is what scientists call a senescent cell.

The biggest questions in life are asked in light of every burning problem. The biggest answers are discovered in labs and studied on researches. What is life made of? What will it take to fight cancer? How does one prolong his own life? Why do we die of old age?

Senescence is only a fancier term to dub the state of old age. Aging is a disease. When people turn old, most become physically weaker, some start to lose memories more frequently and others simply become frail and fragile. This is because old people have a growing number of senescent cells. Being old, the cells of the body also become old; which explains why old people observe a decline to maintain a youthful appearance because their bodies’ cells are unable to renew themselves as well.

Senolytics stem from the words “seno—” which refers to ‘senescence’ and “—lytica” which means “to cut”. Ergo, senolytics is literally the science ‘to cut senescence’ and the study to ultimately kill old age. Senolytics is a family of drugs or chemicals that selectively kill old cells.

Senolytic drugs consist of proteins and other chemicals specifically

Fishpond-monitoring Device

Maintaining a fish pond is costly for owners since they need to hire workers to do the maintenance like changing the water and keeping an eye on the water quality of the fishpond.They need to tend more effort just to maintain its level because if now it may result to less production of fish and it may also affect the income.

The Automated Fishpond Monitoring Notification and Control System is a device made by the researchers of Sta. Cruz National High School that helps the pond operators and owners to conveniently assess and monitor the water quality of their pond in real time. This technology will innovate the water quality monitoring and maintenance of ponds that boosts aquaculture production.

The device contains many sensors to monitor the water quality,water level and water temperature of a certain fishpond. It can also respond automatically to those factors if there will be a change from the specific measurements. The automated fish monitoring notification and control system was tested in a simulation by some alternative materials to create or represent a fishpond. Each sensor and output has its own function and it has been tested that it was operational. The results of the research showed that all of the components were able to do its own work and was able to respond for every factors that affect the water quality. It was also been found that it was able to send a message to a certain phone when the water level exceeds to 7 centimeter. This technology made a difference in the maintenance of a fishpond for the owners of fish ponds.

Automating the maintenance of the fish pond will give the owners a free time to enjoy their business without worrying too much and also it allows them to be less exposed to hazards. This device is very helpful in the society since some places of Sta.Cruz specifically in Bato,Sta.Cruz,Davao del Sur are home of aqua business and boosting the income in a cost efficient way.

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manufactured to destroy senescent cells. Thus, this opens to a new frontier for anti-aging and quite extensively, a promising outlook to apply senolytics for minimizing the risk of getting cancer.

Some cancer cells are actually senescent. While normal cells divide thoroughly until they become senescent and die, a cancer cell stays alive and divides uncontrollably—even damaging nearby cells and tissues. This process of cancer growth, called metastasis, will later on develop into a malignant tumor. Short’s team is currently manufacturing and testing the effectiveness of senolytic drugs in curing tumors. The results of her team and other studies with regards of applying senolytics against cancer cells have shown great promise in 2019. As we speak, senolytics and senolytic drugs are currently being studied and manufactured to test how effective they are on killing senescent cells specifically. In a promising future, the Science of Senolytics can become our weapon to fight cancer and even lead us into a way where old age and senescence will challenge us no more.

Stormquakes

A stormquake, which is a combination of two feared natural disasters—hurricanes¬ and earthquakes is very dangerous because no one is standing on the sea floor during a hurricane.

According to a study from the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the quakes are common but were not noticed closely before because they are considered as seismic background noise.

Scientists discovered that huge hurricanes can create this so called stormquake. Storms trigger giant waves in the sea and can cause another type of wave.

These waves could interact with the sea floor but only in a specific place. It has been found in some research that it causes the shaking. The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes can create trembling similar to an earthquake and also could last for couple of days.

A research was conducted by Wenyuan Fan,a seismologist and professor at Florida State University to examine seismic and ocean records from September 2006 to 2019 to identify possible storm quakes.

According to Fan, intense energy from hurricanes and other severe storms can create very large waves in the ocean and it could interact some places with solid earth under the sea to cause intense seismic source activity.

Seismic activity was recorded off the coast of New England as well as in Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico. The researchers also found evidence of more than 10,000 stormquakes between 2006 and 2019 in coastal areas of the country United States and Canada.