Will new molecular bioprinting technologies soon allow us to print our DNA?
Other research points to a future when we will be able to print DNA, nucleotide by nucleotide.
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Sensitive data is being leaked from servers running Salesforce software
Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity.
At least five separate sites run by the state of Vermont permitted access to sensitive data to anyone, Brian Krebs reported. The state’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program was among those affected. It exposed applicants’ full names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and bank account numbers. Like the other organizations providing public access to private data, Vermont used Salesforce Community, a cloud-based software product designed to make it easy for organizations to quickly create websites.
Another affected Salesforce customer was Columbus, Ohio-based Huntington Bank. It recently acquired TCF Bank, which used Salesforce Community to process commercial loans. Data fields exposed included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, titles, federal IDs, IP addresses, average monthly payrolls, and loan amounts.
AI could run a million microbial experiments per year, says study
An artificial intelligence system enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments—as many as 10,000 per day—potentially driving a drastic leap forward in the pace of discovery in areas from medicine to agriculture to environmental science.
Reported today in Nature Microbiology, the research was led by a professor now at the University of Michigan.
That artificial intelligence platform, dubbed BacterAI, mapped the metabolism of two microbes associated with oral health —with no baseline information to start with. Bacteria consume some combination of the 20 amino acids needed to support life, but each species requires specific nutrients to grow. The U-M team wanted to know what amino acids are needed by the beneficial microbes in our mouths so they can promote their growth.
A novel method to better predict the outgrowth of ductal carcinoma in situ
An international team of researchers led by the Netherlands Cancer Institute developed a method to better predict the outgrowth of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a possible precursor of breast cancer, into invasive breast cancer. Using mice into which cells from women with DCIS were inserted, researchers can better identify which DCIS patients are at risk for breast cancer.
The study was published in Cancer Cell and is part of PRECISION, a major international research project on DCIS.
DCIS consists of aberrant cells in the milk ducts of the breast. In the Netherlands, it is found in about 2,300 women a year, about 80% of them detected at breast cancer screening. This is because calcium splashes can be seen on the X-ray of the breast (the mammogram), which may indicate DCIS.
New longevity conference will span research to evidence-based clinical practice
Next week will see the first Sheba Longevity Conference, a meeting that will bring together all relevant stakeholders in the multidisciplinary field of longevity medicine, providing a forum for showcasing outstanding research and scientific breakthroughs. The conference will also include the opening ceremony of the public academic hospital longevity center at Sheba Hospital.
The conference aims to foster collaborations that will accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into clinical practices and facilitate a shift in Israel’s national healthy longevity policy. The event will also include an exhibition space for sponsors, partners and industry representatives to promote dialogue and showcase their work.
Longevity. Technology: Kirkland, Rando, Barzilai, Maier, Zhavoronkov, Verdin, Mannick… the Sheba Longevity Conference has bagged some longevity A-listers who will be discussing senescence, geroscience, global longevity, aging clocks and more. We sat down with one of the founders of Sheba Longevity, Dr Evelyne Bischof, to find out more.
Salivary gland cancer: 9 things to know
Out in the wider world, patients usually go to their doctors because they have a lump that they can see or feel. It might be under their jaw, on their cheek or behind their ear.
But here at MD Anderson, most cases of salivary gland cancer are found incidentally, because our patients are getting CT scans for some other reason.
Salivary gland cancer almost never has symptoms, but the high-grade aggressive types can get big fast. Since they’re occurring in a confined space, there may be some discomfort associated with the growing mass. Someone’s ear might feel full, for example, or their jaw might feel tight. But the mass itself is not usually painful.
Stay cool: the longevity tech that “shows insane promise”
August will see the second annual Longevity Summit take place in Dublin. Packed with keynote presentations by leading experts in the aging field, the summit will showcase some of the latest – and most exciting – research and innovations in the longevity space.
Longevity. Technology: One of the Longevity Summit’s most-anticipated speakers is eminent gerontologist Dr Aubrey de Grey. Since the launch of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, which Dr de Grey announced at Dublin last year, news on progress of its flagship research programme Robust Mouse Rejuvenation has been keenly awaited, as has further details on its research into transplants on demand.
Earlier this week, we caught up with Dr de Grey to find out more about the conference, its speakers and agenda, and today we dig into what he and LEV Foundation have been up to.
Reprogramming Cells for a Bio-Pacemaker
Year 2014 face_with_colon_three Basically the whole bodies cells could be a pacemaker enabling even immortality with electricity at low voltage.
In pigs, scientists have succeeded in turning cardiac muscle cells into specialized pacemaker cells. Such technology could eventually replace electronic pacemakers, researchers say.