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Sep 30, 2022

New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The U.S. Probably Won’t Contain Them

Posted by in categories: biological, biotech/medical, health, nanotechnology, singularity

There needs to be a radical change to biological wetware in order to handle viruses. What is needed is either nanoparticles or an immunity to all diseases. Crispr is the main path for the biological singularity but it needs to be perfected first as the human body is still a black box due to restrictions. I do believe that mass spectrometry will essentially be key to see the inner world of human biology. Then crispr can make new parts essentially to evolve past our current limits. But either way the biological singularity is needed for survival of human beings for better health.


The coronavirus revealed flaws in the nation’s pandemic plans. The spread of monkeypox shows that the problems remain deeply entrenched.

Sep 30, 2022

Pacific Ocean set to make way for world’s next supercontinent

Posted by in category: supercomputing

New Curtin University-led research has found that the world’s next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million years.

Published in National Science Review, the research team used a supercomputer to simulate how a forms and found that because the Earth has been cooling for billions of years, the thickness and strength of the plates under the oceans reduce with time, making it difficult for the next supercontinent to assemble by closing the “young” oceans, such as the Atlantic or Indian oceans.

Lead author Dr. Chuan Huang, from Curtin’s Earth Dynamics Research Group and the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the new findings were significant and provided insights into what would happen to Earth in the next 200 million years.

Sep 30, 2022

Jennifer Garrison, Buck Institute | Reframing Health and Aging through the Lens of Reproduct

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, life extension, nanotechnology

Foresight Biotech & Health Extension Meeting sponsored by 100 Plus Capital.
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Jennifer Garrison, Buck Institute.
Reframing Health and Aging through the Lens of Reproduct.

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Sep 30, 2022

Towards the interpretability of deep learning models for multi-modal neuroimaging: Finding structural changes of the ageing brain

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

Brain-age (BA) estimates based on deep learning are increasingly used as neuroimaging biomarker for brain health; however, the underlying neural features have remained unclear. We combined ensembles of convolutional neural networks with Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) to detect which brain features contribute to BA. Trained on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of a population-based study (n = 2,637, 18–82 years), our models estimated age accurately based on single and multiple modalities, regionally restricted and whole-brain images (mean absolute errors 3.37–3.86 years). We find that BA estimates capture ageing at both small and large-scale changes, revealing gross enlargements of ventricles and subarachnoid spaces, as well as white matter lesions, and atrophies that appear throughout the brain. Divergence from expected ageing reflected cardiovascular risk factors and accelerated ageing was more pronounced in the frontal lobe. Applying LRP, our study demonstrates how superior deep learning models detect brain-ageing in healthy and at-risk individuals throughout adulthood.

Sep 30, 2022

Scientists want to use a mineral to detect nuclear exposure in space

Posted by in category: space

Researchers have just discovered a unique and novel intelligence property of hackmanite called gamma exposure memory. The mineral could be used in radiation detection applications.

Sep 30, 2022

Analysis: Eisai’s trial success raises hope for Alzheimer’s prevention

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

CHICAGO, Sept 30 (Reuters) — Clear evidence this week that Eisai (4523.T) and Biogen’s (BIIB.O) drug lecanemab slows cognitive decline in early stage dementia has galvanized efforts among Alzheimer’s researchers toward a tantalizing goal — preventing dementia even before symptoms start.

Lecanemab is an antibody that targets and removes toxic clumps of a protein called amyloid beta that accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s. Results from the companies’ 1,800-patient trial released on Tuesday showed convincingly that doing so also slows the advance of the mind-robbing disease.

In volunteers with mild cognitive impairment and early stage dementia, the drug showed a 27% reduction in cognitive decline after 18 months compared with those who got a placebo.

Sep 30, 2022

James Dyson’s Tech Firm Pays £1 Billion Dividend in Wealth Shift

Posted by in category: futurism

James Dyson’s technology firm gave a record 10-figure dividend to his family holding company last year as the billionaire continues to build up his fortune outside his largest asset.

Dyson Holdings paid Weybourne Holdings £1 billion ($1.1 billion) in 2021, the biggest annual cash transfer ever for the UK entrepreneur’s investment group, according to registry filings. Weybourne is also set to receive at least £500 million more this year from a dividend declared in January by the closely held maker of bagless vacuum cleaners.

Sep 30, 2022

Tesla AI Day 2022

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

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Sep 30, 2022

Aubrey de Grey’s main short-term focus on his next endeavour (videoclip with S/T in Spanish)

Posted by in category: life extension

I just uploaded in my YouTube channel my latest videoclip.

It’s an excerpt of an interview made few days ago by Phil Newman, Editor-in-Chief of Longevity. Technology to Aubrey de Grey.

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Sep 30, 2022

Behold! NASA spacecraft takes a stunning closeup of Jupiter’s moon Europa

Posted by in category: space travel

Voila! Europa’s topography reveals itself to NASA’s Juno mission. The moon will be visited by the Europa Clipper in the 2020s.