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Aug 4, 2019

The Next Breakthrough in Computer Control: Plant-Fondling

Posted by in categories: computing, innovation

It’s an intruiging technology. All it takes to set up is burying a sensor in the plant’s dirt, and it works for living and non-living things alike. Given that the experience is going to be wildly different depending on the plant, it’s not like this would be useful for doing anything with accuracy. But for doing weird, unique things (while fondling plants) it’s perfect.


In this era of Kinect, Wii, and Leap, everyone wants to capitalize on motion control. Disney still likes physical peripherals, like houseplants for example.

Aug 4, 2019

Founders: A wonderful news on the creation of an organisation, Academy for Health and Lifespan Research, founded by the giants in aging and healthy life extension research: …

Posted by in categories: innovation, life extension

Inaugural Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (AHLR) …towards achieving the goal of not just accelerating longevity research, but making sure that its implications are accessible to all…”


The Academy is comprised of an elite group of world-renowned researchers, scientists and clinicians, all united toward making breakthroughs in longevity both accelerated & accessible.

Jul 28, 2019

Micro machines: How the next big thing in robotics is actually quite small

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Think that robots need to be the size of a dog or even a full-grown person to be exciting? Not so, as the fast-developing field of micro-robotics demonstrates. As it turns out, in some cases the world’s most innovative robots may even be too small for many of us to see.

Jul 24, 2019

Podcast #33: The Disruptors with Matt Ward

Posted by in category: innovation

“This is the age of disruption.”–Sebastian Thrun “Innovations can only be disruptive in relation to something else.”–Clayton M. Christensen Disruption. I…

Jul 24, 2019

We are happy to announce our support for Turn Biotechnologies. Turn.bio is based on the scientific breakthrough work at Stanford of Vittorio Sebastiano, Jay Sarkar, and Marco Quarta. They are now leading the team to develop therapies that return mature differentiated cells to a dramatically younger state leaving their differentiated identity unaltered. Congrats! More info on kizoo.com/en

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Turn.bio is based on the scientific breakthrough work at Stanford of Vittorio Sebastiano, Jay Sarkar, and Marco Quarta. They are now leading the team to develop therapies that return mature differentiated cells to a dramatically younger state leaving their differentiated identity unaltered. Congrats!

More info on kizoo.com/en

Jul 22, 2019

‘BioSolar Leaves’ are better at cleaning the air than trees, say the technology’s developers

Posted by in categories: food, innovation

Via World Economic Forum


This nature-inspired invention uses microscopic plants to suck pollution from the air while producing organic biomass that can be harvested and used in food.

Jul 18, 2019

Crispr Innovators Make It Easier to Use Their Gene-Editing Technology

Posted by in categories: genetics, innovation

Two important developers of the celebrated Crispr gene-editing technology said they will make it easier for researchers to license their intellectual property, a move aimed at hastening innovation in the burgeoning field.

MilliporeSigma, the life-sciences tools division of German pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard said researchers will be able to get nonexclusive rights to patents held by both organizations for research purposes with a single license.

Companies will have to pay a licensing fee. Nonprofit and academic institutions will be permitted to license the patents for free, the organizations said in a news release on Thursday.

Jul 17, 2019

CRISPR breakthrough treats diseases like diabetes without cutting DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

CRISPR-Cas9 shows incredible promise, but the long term effects of cutting DNA in living organisms isn’t known. Now scientists from the Salk Institute have modified it to work without cutting, switching targeted genes on and off instead, and used it to treat diabetes and muscular dystrophy in mice.

Jul 15, 2019

Study gives insight into sun-induced DNA damage and cell repair

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

A team led by a Baylor University researcher has published a breakthrough article that provides a better understanding of the dynamic process by which sunlight-induced DNA damage is recognized by the molecular repair machinery in cells as needing repair.

Ultraviolet light from the sun is a ubiquitous carcinogen that can inflict structural damage to the cellular DNAs DNA carries important blueprints for cellular functions, failure in removing and restoring damaged parts of DNA in a timely fashion can have detrimental outcomes and lead to skin cancers in humans, said lead author Jung-Hyun Min, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Min and her team showed how the repair Rad4/XPC would bind to one such UV-induced DNA damage—6–4 photoproduct—to mark the damaged site along the DNA in preparation for the rest of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) process in cells.

Jul 13, 2019

Will Your Next Job Be On Mars?

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

Mars recruitment is underway. No longer science fiction, the job opportunities will be abundant, diverse and highly innovative. Ready to apply?