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Dr. Neta Lavon, Ph.D. — CTO and Vice President of R&D — Aleph Farms — Meat For Earth (And Space)

Novel Cultivated Meats For Earth (And Space!) — Dr. Neta Lavon Ph.D., CTO / VP of R&D, Aleph Farms.


Dr. Neta Lavon is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of R&D at Aleph Farms (https://www.aleph-farms.com/), a cultivated meat company that is shaping the future of food by growing high-quality, slaughter-free beef steaks directly from cow cells, preserving natural resources, and avoiding the use of antibiotics.

Dr. Lavon is an expert in stem cell applications in biotechnology. In her previous position as the COO of Kadimastem (KDST), she developed cell therapy products from stem cells for ALS and Diabetes.

As a researcher in Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, USA, Dr. Lavon established and banked 25 novel pluripotent stem cell lines.

Dr. Lavon holds a PhD, an M.Sc. in Biotechnology and B.Sc. in Food Sciences from the Hebrew University, Israel.

China’s Answer to the Aging International Space Station: The Tech Behind Tiangong | WSJ

China says its spacecraft has more advanced technology.

While the future of the nearly 23-year-old International Space Station remains uncertain after 2,024 China says its newly equipped Tiangong station will be up and running by next year. WSJ unpacks the design and technology of both space stations. Photo: CCTV; NASA

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Canada: Police drone hits plane approaching runway; ‘major damage’ reported

Drone accidentally hits plane causing major damage.

I wonder if we’re going to see more of these incidents in the future.


An aircraft attempting to land at Buttonville, an airport with proximity to Toronto’s suburbs, sustained “major damage” after being hit by a York Regional Police (YRP) drone earlier this month. Strangely enough, the country’s air navigation service provider, NAV Canada, was not even informed of the police drone operation.

The pilot thought the plane must have hit a large bird and proceeded to land. There was no change in configuration or power since they were about 500 feet above ground level and landing was imminent. The report reads:

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade

Deforestation is getting worse in the Amazon.


Between August2020and July 2,021 the rainforest lost 10.476 square kilometers – an area nearly seven times bigger than greater London and 13 times the size of New York City, according to data released by Imazon, a Brazilian research institute that has been tracking the Amazon deforestation since 2008. The figure is 57% higher than in the previous year and is the worst since 2012.

Complex Trauma Linked to Cognitive Impairments and Mental Health Disorders

Summary: Young people who experienced complex early life trauma as a result of interpersonal violence or child abuse had more severe mental health problems and cognitive impairments than their peers with no exposure to trauma.

Source: King’s College London.

New research from King’s has explored whether different types of trauma confer the same risk of future mental illness, in the first study of its kind.

Measurement of e+e− Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions

The Breit-Wheeler process which produces matter and antimatter from photon collisions is experimentally investigated through the observation of 6085 exclusive electron-positron pairs in ultraperipheral Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV. The measurements reveal a large fourth-order angular modulation of cos4Δϕ=(16.8±2.5)% and smooth invariant mass distribution absent of vector mesons (ϕ, ω, and ρ) at the experimental limit of ≤0.2% of the observed yields. The differential cross section as a function of e+e− pair transverse momentum P⊥ peaks at low value with √⟨P2⊥⟩=38.1±0.9 MeV and displays a significant centrality dependence. These features are consistent with QED calculations for the collision of linearly polarized photons quantized from the extremely strong electromagnetic fields generated by the highly charged Au nuclei at ultrarelativistic speed. The experimental results have implications for vacuum birefringence and for mapping the magnetic field which is important for emergent QCD phenomena.

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