Apr 2, 2024
John_Johnston_The_Allure_of_Machinic_Life_(BookZZ.org).pdf
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
The allure of machinic life cybernetics artificial life and thd new AI.
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Apr 2, 2024
The virtual as the Digital By David Chalmers
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative in every devergent thinking test of humans.
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Apr 2, 2024
Hacking Healthspan: Gene Therapy and Your Telomeres
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva Science, is the world’s most genetically modified person. She took a telomere-restoring gene therapy in 2015 alongside follistatin, making her the first person to take gene therapy to treat biological aging.
But why telomeres?
While there are other ways to measure and address the aging process, lengthening telomeres is an especially promising avenue.
Apr 2, 2024
$25,000 Tesla To Ditch Production Line For Radical New Assembly Technique
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Cars today roll along a production line where components are added at set stations and Tesla now wants to implement a completely new assembly process.
Apr 2, 2024
Paper page — Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: robotics/AI
Aurora-M
The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.
Pretrained language models underpin several AI applications, but their high computational cost for training limits accessibility.
Apr 2, 2024
Identifying inflammation is at the heart of the matter
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
By contrast, information on coronary inflammation can provide crucial early warning signs of a cardiac event. Yet traditional diagnostic methods of measuring inflammation are not specific for cardiovascular diseases. Inflammation is invisible to CT scans, for instance. And biomarkers such as hsCRP (High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein) measure systemic inflammation, rather than cardiovascular inflammation, so the test may show up high in the case of inflammation driven by non-heart organs.
CaRi-Heart leverages AI tech to detect and quantify coronary inflammation, giving it an edge over traditional diagnostic methods. Cheng explains that while it is important to find patients who already have significantly narrowed coronary arteries, and obviously need immediate treatment, cardiologists often end up archiving many cases of patients with no visible signs of disease but who potentially have high coronary inflammation. This inflammation, driven by cholesterol, or smoking, or diabetes and other risk factors, ultimately causes the wall of the artery to become thickened and narrowed.
Caristo’s CaRi-Heart technology is a non-invasive cloud-based solution that utilizes AI to analyse CT scans, overcoming the limitations of traditional diagnostic methods, offering a more sensitive and specific approach to detecting and quantifying coronary inflammation, says Cheng. CaRi-Heart is the only commercially available technology that can detect and measure coronary inflammation on routine cardiac CT scans, and it has been cleared for clinical use in the UK, EU and Australia.
Apr 2, 2024
The potential of ultrasound and antibodies for Alzheimer’s disease therapy
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Professor Jürgen Götz and Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan from the Queensland Brain Institute comment on the successful human trial by the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute which found a five-fold reduction of amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s patients.
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Apr 2, 2024
Stem cell treatments for spinal cord injury
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
Apr 2, 2024
Unveiling the Universe: The ULLYSES Project
Posted by Laurence Tognetti, Labroots Inc. in categories: chemistry, evolution, physics, space
After three years of collecting scores of data on hundreds of stars, the ULLYSES (Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards) survey conducted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope officially ended in December 2023, culminating in 220 total stars examined during the survey on data regarding their size, distance from Earth, temperature, chemical characteristics, and rotational speed. Additionally, ULYYSES also contains another 275 stars from the Hubble archive, providing researchers with several decades of new stellar data and holds the potential to help astronomers gain new insights into stellar formation and evolution throughout the universe.
Hubble image of a star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula, which contains massive, young blue stars, which was observed during the ULYYSES survey (top panel). Artist’s illustration of a cooler, redder, young star smaller than our Sun that is still gathering material from its planet-forming disk (bottom panel). (Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Francesco Paresce (INAF-IASF Bologna), Robert O’Connell (UVA), SOC-WFC3, ESO)
“I believe the ULLYSES project will be transformative, impacting overall astrophysics – from exoplanets, to the effects of massive stars on galaxy evolution, to understanding the earliest stages of the evolving universe,” said Dr. Julia Roman-Duval, who is Implementation Team Lead for ULLYSES and an Associate Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). “Aside from the specific goals of the program, the stellar data can also be used in fields of astrophysics in ways we can’t yet imagine.”
