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Oct 30, 2023

Is iron the Achilles’ heel for cancer?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security

A team of scientists at UC San Francisco reported a way to leverage cancers’ unique metabolic profile to ensure that drugs only target cancer cells: Freethink.


To make matters worse, cancer cells sometimes only die when patients take relatively high doses of a drug. This is because cancer’s metabolism is often greater in cancer cells than in normal cells. For instance, some cancer cells have more MEK enzyme — meaning more cobimetinib is required to stop these cells from replicating. Unfortunately, the doses cancer patients receive often closely approach or even exceed the levels at which the drug causes toxicities in healthy tissues.

Cancer cells hoard iron at a far greater rate than healthy cells, according to previous studies. Although the reason for this remains unclear, the UCSF team realized this could be leveraged to increase the specificity of cancer drugs. If a cancer drug, such as cobimetinib, were only activated in the iron-rich environment of a cancer cell, the drug would be inert when it interacts with healthy cells. It’s something like a two-factor authentication system for cancer drugs.

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Oct 30, 2023

Bacteriophages Enhance Cellular Growth and Survival for Mammalian Cells

Posted by in category: health

Mammalian cells may consume bacteriophages to promote cellular health and survival.

Oct 30, 2023

ServiceNow Data Exposure: A Wake-Up Call for Companies

Posted by in category: business

ServiceNow exposes sensitive data due to misconfigurations. Learn how this could’ve jeopardized your business and the steps to ensure your data is secure.

Oct 30, 2023

Breaking the Quantum Limit: From Einstein-Bohr Debates to Achieving “Unattainable” Efficiency

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering, quantum physics

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that a key ingredient for many quantum computation and communication schemes can be performed with an efficiency that exceeds the commonly assumed upper theoretical limit — thereby opening up new perspectives for a wide range of photonic quantum technologies.

Quantum science not only has revolutionized our understanding of nature, but is also inspiring groundbreaking new computing, communication, and sensor devices. Exploiting quantum effects in such ‘quantum technologies’ typically requires a combination of deep insight into the underlying quantum-physical principles, systematic methodological advances, and clever engineering. And it is precisely this combination that researchers in the group of Prof. Stefanie Barz at the University of Stuttgart and the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST) have delivered in recent study, in which they have improved the efficiency of an essential building block of many quantum devices beyond a seemingly inherent limit.

Historical foundations: from philosophy to technology.

Oct 30, 2023

Decoding how the brain understands sentences in real-time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

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Researchers examine how the brain processes language by using intracranial recordings in epilepsy patients during reading tasks, revealing the neural networks responsible for semantic integration and distinguishing between semantic coherence and task-based referentiality. The study pinpoints specific brain regions activated during sentence processing and offers new insights into the spatiotemporal dynamics of language understanding.

Oct 30, 2023

Extracellular Matrix-Based Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry, life extension

Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering strategies have made remarkable progress in remodeling, replacing, and regenerating damaged cardiovascular tissues. The design of three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds with appropriate biochemical and mechanical characteristics is critical for engineering tissue-engineered replacements. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a dynamic scaffolding structure characterized by tissue-specific biochemical, biophysical, and mechanical properties that modulates cellular behavior and activates highly regulated signaling pathways. In light of technological advancements, biomaterial-based scaffolds have been developed that better mimic physiological ECM properties, provide signaling cues that modulate cellular behavior, and form functional tissues and organs.

Oct 30, 2023

ExelaStealer: A New Low-Cost Cybercrime Weapon Emerges

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

🚨 ExelaStealer, a dangerous info-stealing malware, has hit the scene, offering hackers a low-cost entry point for malicious attacks.

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Researchers warn of ExelaStealer, a new information stealer targeting Windows systems. It steals sensitive data like passwords, credit card numbers.

Oct 30, 2023

How Different Animals React to Zero Gravity 😱 #frog #dog #cat #mice #pigeons #animals

Posted by in category: futurism

Randomly Interesting.

Dog floats, cats frefall, pigeons try to fly but at some point one floats, frog goes crazy…and rats/mice create their own “gravity”.

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Oct 30, 2023

Hackers Using MSIX App Packages to Infect Windows PCs with GHOSTPULSE Maware

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

🔒 Beware! A new cyber threat is using bogus MSIX Windows app packages for popular software like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to spread a dangerous malware called GHOSTPULSE.

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Cyber criminals are using fake MSIX Windows app packages of popular software to deliver GHOSTPULSE malware loader.

Oct 30, 2023

Inspired by the human brain — how IBM’s latest AI chip could be 25 times more efficient than GPUs by being more integrated — but neither Nvidia nor AMD have to worry just yet

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The NorthPole processor embeds a small amount of memory into each of its 256 cores, which are connected together in a way similar to the way parts of the brain are connected together with white matter. This means the chip mitigates the bottleneck entirely.

IBM’s NorthPole is more of a proof of concept than a fully functioning chip that can compete with the likes of AMD and Nvidia. It only includes 224MB of RAM, for example, which is nowhere near enough the scale required for AI or to run large language models (LLMs).

The chip can also just run pre-programed neural networks trained on separate systems. But its unique architecture means the real standout is the energy efficiency it can boast. The researchers claim that if NorthPole was created today with state-of-the-art manufacturing standards, it would be 25 times more efficienct than the best GPUs and best CPUs.