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The Math Behind Building An AI Using DNA #SoME3

This is an AI called a Neural Network. But all of the transistors and electronics are replaced with DNA, the molecule of life… all in one test tube.

Papers used for this video.
DNA Neural Networks: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4225…
Computation Via DNA: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159…
DNA logic circuits: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
Matrices Using DNA: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1…

Music:
City Life – Artificial. Music (No Copyright Music)
Link:
Pure Water by Meydän.
Link: • Meydän — Pure Water [Creative Commons…
Forever Sunrise — by Jonny Easton.
Link: • Forever Sunrise — Soft Inspirational…

Softwares used:
Manim CE
Keynote.
Blender.
Molecular Nodes by @BradyJohnston.

0:00 Intro.
1:03 Neural Networks Recap.
3:40 DNA Computing Introduction.
7:20 DNA Transistor.
9:55 DNA Matrix Multiplication.
11:11 Closing Thoughts

The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, explores how the brain learns and remembers. This video focuses on a discussion of how the brain is organized in general.

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The Future of Longevity: The Battle Against Human Aging (NFX Original)

Take a deep dive with NFX into the hottest longevity startups, exploring the mindset of the Founders and why they’re on a mission to keep healthy people healthy, to redesigned healthcare that prevents us from falling into disability and disease over time.

Solving this holds incredible financial and societal value — we have only a few decades left.

Follow to learn more on longevity — https://www.nfx.com/library/bio

Factor Bioscience Announces U.S. Department of Defense Grant to Develop Gene-Edited Cell Therapies

FactorBioscience Announces U.S. Department of Defense Grant to Develop Gene-Edited Cell Therapies Read the latest here.

Factor Bioscience Inc. announced the award of a U.S. Department of Defense grant to develop next-generation cell therapy candidates using Factor’s patented mRNA, cell-reprogramming, and gene-editing technologies. The project will be led by Factor’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Christopher Rohde.

Under the award, Factor will generate the first scalable cell therapy specifically targeting muscle inflammation in DMD patients. To carry out the work, Factor will utilize its extensively patented technologies for engineering cells, including methods for reprogramming and gene-editing cells using mRNA.

The award is sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, through the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program, which is endorsed by the Department of Defense. The award will fund development activities for up to five years.

Diabetic Nephropathy | Diabetic Kidney Disease

Kidney damage from diabetes is called diabetic nephropathy. You can slow down kidney damage or keep it from getting worse. Controlling your blood sugar and blood pressure, taking your medicines and not eating too much protein can help.

If you have diabetes, your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Over time, this can damage your kidneys. Your kidneys clean your blood. If they are damaged, waste and fluids build up in your blood instead of leaving your body.

Kidney damage from diabetes is called diabetic nephropathy. It begins long before you have symptoms. People with diabetes should get regular screenings for kidney disease. Tests include a urine test to detect protein in your urine and a blood test to show how well your kidneys are working.

If the damage continues, your kidneys could fail. In fact, diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure in the United States. People with kidney failure need either dialysis or a kidney transplant.

Hypertension: Eating more tomatoes may help lower risk by 36%

For older adults with mild high blood pressure, a new study suggests consuming tomatoes may help manage hypertension and may even lower the risk of developing high blood pressure in the first place.

In the study, people without high blood pressure who ate the most tomatoes or tomato-based foods had a 36% lower risk of developing hypertension than those who ate the least.

In people who already had high blood pressure, especially those with stage 1 hypertension, moderate consumption of tomatoes was associated with a reduction in blood pressure.

There’s A Paradigm Shift In Immunology; And Big Pharma Is Paying Richly For It

This is good news potentially. TL1A have the potential of helping with inflammatory bowel disease, and arthritis and inflammatory diseases but it won’t come out, until half a decade from now.

Biotech stock investors are hoping for a repeat performance from the suite of TL1A drugs.

Proving The Drug’s Merit

First, the companies are looking to prove the drugs’ merit in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. So far, that venture has paid off handsomely for the biotech stocks involved.

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