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Black hair? Green eyes? More than 160 genes determine your coloration, and their interactions are incredibly complicated.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) can cause a huge range of symptoms in different patients, and the severity can vary dramatically. It is an inflammatory condition in which the body attacks myelin sheaths, a protective insulation surrounding nerve cells. This can cause fatigue, pain, paralysis, and symptoms that gradually get worse. MS can be very difficult to diagnose because the symptoms can be so different in different patients, and the presence of brain lesions is the clearest indication of the disease. MRIs that can reveal those brain lesions are only useful once the disease have progressed to the point of brain damage, however.

The innate immune system presents a potential option for monitoring the progression of MS. The disease causes inflammation, so researchers tracked immune cells in the brain called macrophages, and assessed brain inflammation in a mouse model of MS. The findings have been reported in Science Translational Medicine.

Often seen negatively cannabis seen truthfully is a miracle plant even derivatives like cbd have cured some of the hardest mental disorders to cure like dementia alleviating symptoms to bring a person closer to health than before. Also now with this study veterans often seen incurable due to the unknown factors of ptsd and unknown factors of the human brain now are seeing relief through cannabis usage in a therapeutic setting 😀 Even the plant itself is some sorta miracle plant alleviating some thought incurable diseases.

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In mice aged 12–18 months, chronic administration of low-dose Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) improves performance in behavioral learning and memory tasks, whereas a similar administration in younger mice (aged 2 months) impairs performance.

A team from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has invented a device that leverages electrochemistry to increase the efficiency of direct air carbon capture. Their alternative strategy aims to accelerate the widespread adoption of this emerging technology.

“The technology required to pull carbon directly out of the air has been developing for decades, but the field is now accelerating with governments and industry investing in the infrastructure required to actually do this at scale,” says David Sinton, a professor in the faculty’s department of mechanical and industrial engineering and senior author on a paper published in Joule that outlines the new technique.

“One key barrier is that current processes require a lot of energy, and indeed emit a fair amount of carbon themselves,” says Sinton, who holds a Canada Research Chair in microfluidics and energy and is academic director of the Climate Positive Energy Initiative, one of U of T’s Institutional Strategic Initiatives.

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California-based Virtualitics, a startup providing enterprises with an AI-driven platform for 3D data exploration, today announced $37 million in a series C round of funding. The company said it will use the capital to expand its footprint and add more capabilities to its offering to make it easier for users to analyze and understand complex, business-critical datasets.

The round has been led by Smith Point Capital with participation from Citi and advisory clients of The Hillman Company, among other investors. It takes the total capital raised by Virtualitics, which took off from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in 2016, to $67 million.

You can keep saving up to buy a six-figure ticket to space, or try this new Citizen Astronaut Program to earn your spot through passion and commitment to positive change.

The private space firm, Interstellar Technologies, aims for an orbital launch by 2025.

Interstellar Technologies, a Japanese startup that has successfully launched three suborbital rockets, is now gearing up for its first orbital mission. The company plans to conduct a static fire test of its Zero rocket later this year, which will be a crucial step towards launching it into orbit by 2025.

Credits: Interstellar Technologies.

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New Zealand’s Pak’nSave bot is powered by OpenAI’s GPT 3.5.

Developed to churn out recipes for leftover food in people’s homes, a meal bot is now handing out (disaster) recipes to customers. The AI bot is a product of Pak’nSave, a New Zealand-based supermarket chain, and is powered by OpenAI’s GPT 3.5.

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