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Jan 22, 2023

A Biological Wonder: Harvard Researchers Discover Embryonic Origins of Adult Pluripotent Stem Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Stem cells are a remarkable biological wonder that have the ability to repair, replace and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans, stem cells are limited to generating only specific types of cells. For example, hair stem cells will only produce hair, and intestine stem cells will only produce intestines. However, many distantly-related invertebrates.

Invertebrates are animals that do not have a backbone. They make up the majority of the animal kingdom and include animals such as insects, worms, mollusks, and arachnids. Invertebrates are found in almost every habitat on Earth, from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountains. They play important roles in the ecosystem as decomposers, pollinators, and as a food source for other animals. Invertebrates have a wide range of body shapes, sizes, and behaviors, and they have evolved a variety of ways to survive and thrive in their environments.

Jan 21, 2023

How one woman’s ‘immortal’ cells changed the world

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman from Baltimore, died of cancer. However, before her death a small sample of her cells were taken from her without her knowledge, and these cells did not die. Unlike every other previous sample of human cells, these continued to grow and multiply and still do so today. The HeLa cells became the first ‘immortalised human cell line’ and have helped both save and create millions of lives ever since. Video by Dan John Animation by Lily Baker.

Jan 21, 2023

ChatGPT: AGI by 2024, the hard part is now done

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

ChatGPT is not yet AGI, so-called, artificial general intelligence. And it may have some fundamental limitations. But here I argue we might get early GPT-based AGI around 2024. Let’s talk about how that might happen.

Here’s a few quick assumptions I make:

Jan 21, 2023

How Smart Are the Robots Getting?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it.

Jan 21, 2023

DensePose: DensePose was introduced in 2018 and aims to map human pixels in an RGB image to the 3D surface of the human body

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, internet

Synced has previously covered additional research on the use of WiFi signals for human pose and action recognition through walls and the associated risks of such technologies.

Please note that the DensePose-COCO and DensePose-PoseTrack datasets are distributed under NonCommercial Creative Commons license.

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Jan 21, 2023

The World in a Billion Years: Top 5 Future Technologies

Posted by in categories: biological, mathematics, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity

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Jan 21, 2023

The Speed of Light Reveals the Universe Must Be Stranger Than We Ever Imagined

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Jan 21, 2023

This Model Reveals the Universe Is More than Infinite

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Jan 21, 2023

Scientists Find ‘Evidence’ of Another Universe Before Our Own

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists find traces of black holes from other universes in the night sky. This shows that there have been other universes.

New Scientist says that the idea is based on a thing called “conformal cyclic cosmology” (CCC). It means that our universe didn’t start with a single Big Bang. Instead, it goes through cycles of Big Bangs and shrinking.

Even though most of the universe would be destroyed from one cycle to the next, these scientists say that some electromagnetic radiation might make it through the process. Their research results have been posted on arXiv.

Jan 21, 2023

How Artificial Intelligence Found the Words To Kill Cancer Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and IBM Research have created a virtual library of thousands of “command sentences” for cells using machine learning. These “sentences” are based on combinations of “words” that direct engineered immune cells to find and continuously eliminate cancer cells.

This research, which was recently published in the journal Science, is the first time that advanced computational techniques have been applied to a field that has traditionally progressed through trial-and-error experimentation and the use of pre-existing molecules rather than synthetic ones to engineer cells.

The advance allows scientists to predict which elements – natural or synthesized – they should include in a cell to give it the precise behaviors required to respond effectively to complex diseases.