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Daniel Dennett might be closer to truth on consciousness.


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Genetic engineering is a beacon of hope. It promises eternal life, curing diseases and feeding the growing world population. The possibilities are boundless. The invention is not that old. But their pace is rapid. Life without genetic engineering will no longer exist. We are at the beginning of a new evolution.

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Bolstered by Silicon Valley investment, scientists are making such rapid progress that lab-grown human eggs and sperm could be a reality within a decade, a meeting of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority board heard last week.

In-vitro gametes (IVGs), eggs or sperm that are created in the lab from genetically reprogrammed skin or stem cells, are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research.

The technology promises to remove age barriers to conception and could pave the way for same-sex couples to have biological children together. It also poses unprecedented medical and ethical risks, which the HFEA now believes need to be considered in a proposed overhaul of fertility laws.

Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have developed flexible robot wings that are moved by magnetic fields. Inspired by the efficiency and adaptability of the wings of the monarch butterfly, they enable precise movements without electronics or batteries.

This bio-inspired development could fundamentally change , rescue operations and biomedical applications.

Monarch butterflies are known for their outstanding endurance and adaptability. Every year, they cover thousands of kilometers on their migrations between Canada and Mexico. The key to this feat lies in their unique wings, which allow the insects to fly energy-efficiently through a combination of active movement and passive bending.

Participants underwent fMRI while completing a monetary incentive delay task. This task is commonly used to assess reward system activation, as it separates the anticipation of a reward from the receipt of the reward. During the task, participants viewed visual cues signaling whether they could win money or not. They were then required to press a button quickly in response to a target, with feedback indicating whether they had succeeded in earning the reward.

The study focused on two key brain regions: the ventral striatum, which is involved in reward anticipation, and the orbitofrontal cortex, which processes reward outcomes. Psychological resilience was measured using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, while PTSD severity was assessed with the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale. Metabolic syndrome was diagnosed based on established clinical criteria, including elevated blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels, elevated blood sugar, and increased waist circumference.

The researchers observed distinct patterns of reward system activation in individuals with PTSD, influenced by the severity of depressive symptoms. Among PTSD participants with lower depression severity, activation in the ventral striatum during reward anticipation was reduced, while activation in the orbitofrontal cortex during reward outcomes was heightened.

When 3D printing was first introduced in 1985, it marked a major turning point for the manufacturing industry. In addition to being cheaper than traditional manufacturing technologies, it also promised the ability to customize designs and make prototypes on demand. While its technology is still considered relatively new, there has been an accelerating demand for 3D printing methods across sectors in the past decade, ranging from aerospace and defense to medicine.

Yet, Associate Professor Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) believes that there are still ways to go before 3D printing can achieve its full potential. In traditional 3D printing, a nozzle is used to print the material layer by layer, and the path that the nozzle takes is known as the toolpath.

However, layer-by-layer printing is incompatible for use with materials like silicone, epoxies, and urethanes that are slow-curing and take more time to harden. These types of materials are often used to create soft mechanical metamaterials which, in turn, are used for lightweight, nature-inspired structures, such as lattices and web structures. Deposition-based processes in 3D printing, such as direct ink writing, would be able to work with these materials to create such structures, but these suffer from non-optimized toolpaths.

“If you lease it like you lease a car, a $30,000 car, your price point per month is 300 bucks,” says author, futurist, investor, doctor, and engineer Peter Diamandis in a recent TechFirst podcast. “And that translates amazingly to $10 a day and 40 cents an hour. So you’ve got labor that’s waiting for whatever your wish is. You know, clean up the house, go mow the lawn, you know, please change the baby’s diapers.”

SMC proteins can reverse direction, reshaping DNA

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).