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Pancreas-on-a-Chip Technology for Transplantation Applications

Human pancreas-on-a-chip (PoC) technology is quickly advancing as a platform for complex in vitro modeling of islet physiology. This review summarizes the current progress and evaluates the possibility of using this technology for clinical islet transplantation.

PoC microfluidic platforms have mainly shown proof of principle for long-term culturing of islets to study islet function in a standardized format. Advancement in microfluidic design by using imaging-compatible biomaterials and biosensor technology might provide a novel future tool for predicting islet transplantation outcome. Progress in combining islets with other tissue types gives a possibility to study diabetic interventions in a minimal equivalent in vitro environment.

Although the field of PoC is still in its infancy, considerable progress in the development of functional systems has brought the technology on the verge of a general applicable tool that may be used to study islet quality and to replace animal testing in the development of diabetes interventions.

US-China defense race: World’s first sixth-generation aircraft B-21 nuclear bomber debuts

China’s H-20 ‘stealth bomber,’ allegedly a rival to the US’s ‘Raider,’ may also be rolled out soon.

Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) and the U.S. Air Force have finally rolled out the world’s first sixth-generation aircraft after over three decades, amid a tight arms race with China.

The B-21 “Raider,” a long-range nuclear bomber, was unveiled on Friday, at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California, according to a press release by the defense giant.

“The Northrop Grumman team develops and delivers technology that advances science, looks into the future, and brings it to the here and now,” said Kathy Warden, CEO and president of NOC.N.

Northrop Grumman Corp and the U.S. Air Force have finally rolled out the world’s first sixth-generation aircraft amid a tight arms race with China. The B-21 “Raider,” a long-range nuclear bomber, was unveiled on Friday.

New shocking-tech could save ‘millions of sharks destroyed every year’

SharkGuard sends out an electrical pulse that repels the animals.

Millions of sharks are killed each year when they’re accidentally caught by industrial fishing vessels. Now a new technology may just stop this carnage, according to an article published by Bloomberg.

The technology has already been tested on two longline vessels fishing for bluefin tuna off the south coast of France in July and August 2021,. The results were nothing short of impressive: blue shark accidental catches fell by 91.

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It’s called a SharkGuard and it’s attached to fishing hooks. It emits a three-dimensional electric field that can be sensed by sharks and rays, which repels them.

A man fell down from a cruise ship and survived for 15 hours at sea

He survived despite hypothermia.

On Thanksgiving that we left behind, a miracle happened. A 28-year-old man fell from one of Carnival’s cruise ships and went missing in the Gulf of Mexico. He was rescued after “15 hours.”

He was rescued 20 miles south of Southwest Pass.

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As CNN reported, a brother and a sister set off with Carnival Valor from New Orleans, and the accident happened in the first hours of the voyage. Rescue efforts began after it was understood that the passenger had fallen. At least one seasoned mariner was shocked by what transpired next and said, in hindsight, after several hours, that it was unlike anything he had ever seen.