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Sep 8, 2022
Rewriting Our Understanding of Epigenetics: Scientists Reveal We Inherit More Than Previously Thought
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
A fundamental discovery concerning a driver of healthy development in embryos might rewrite our understanding of what we can inherit from our parents and how their life experiences shape us. The new study reveals that epigenetic information, which sits on top of DNA
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).
Sep 8, 2022
New Device Can Detect Alzheimer’s 17 Years in Advance
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Before the first clinical symptoms appear, Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time. It is the most common form of dementia and accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. There is no current cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but there are medications that can help ease the symptoms.
Sep 8, 2022
Opinion: Physicists can now use lasers to move atoms in previously untested ways
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: particle physics
The defining feature of a Bose-Einstein condensate is that its atoms behave very differently from what we normally expect. Instead of acting as independent particles, they all have the same (very low) energy and are coordinated with each other.
This is similar to the difference between photons (light particles) coming from the Sun, which may have many different wavelengths (energies) and oscillate independently, and those in laser beams, which all have the same wavelength and oscillate together.
In this new state of matter, the atoms act much more like a single, wave-like structure than a group of individual particles. Researchers have demonstrated wave-like interference patterns between two different Bose-Einstein condensates and even produce moving “BEC droplets.” The latter can be considered the atomic equivalent of a laser beam.
Sep 8, 2022
The World in 3000: Top 7 Future Technologies
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, mathematics, physics, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity
This video covers the world in 3,000 and its future technologies. Watch this next video about the world in 10,000 A.D.: bit.ly/373KvDr.
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Sep 8, 2022
Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence (and the Basics of AI) — Documentary
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: education, Elon Musk, ethics, robotics/AI
This mini documentary takes a look at Elon Musk and his thoughts on artificial intelligence. Giving examples on how it is being used today — from Tesla cars to Facebook, and Instagram. And what the future of artificial intelligence has in store for us — from the risks and Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip to robotics.
The video will also go over the fundamentals and basics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Breaking down AI for beginners into simple terms — showing what is ai, along with neural nets.
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Sep 8, 2022
The Biggest Technologies of Antiaging, Space and Robotics will change the World by 2035
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: life extension, robotics/AI
A talk for the international audience of Technology Universe (https://technologyuniverse.net/) by futurist Brian Wang.
Other videos by Brian Wang on Space, Replicating factories, future teslabots and antiaging.
Sep 8, 2022
Another Philosopher Argues That the Unified Self Is an Illusion
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
On behalf of Mind Matters News, I listen and ask some questions about just how the enduring self — the thing we are most sure of — could be an illusion.
Sep 8, 2022
‘Jumping’ genes yield new clues to origins of neurodegenerative disease
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
The findings also point to possible directions for treatment of the disease.
The results are published Sept. 6 in the journal Neuron.
Almost half the human genome is comprised of transposable elements, long and short stretches of DNA called “jumping genes” for their ability to move from one location of the genome to others. Once called “junk” DNA, these transposable sequences have been shown to play crucial regulatory roles in many biological functions. Once they fulfill these myriad roles, molecular regulators usually silence their expression.
Sep 8, 2022
A memory prosthesis could restore memory in people with damaged brains
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: cyborgs, neuroscience
It works by copying what happens in the hippocampus—a seahorse-shaped region deep in the brain that plays a crucial role in memory. The brain structure not only helps us form short-term memories but also appears to direct memories to other regions for long-term storage.
For more than 10 years, Theodore Berger and Dong Song at the University of Southern California and their colleagues have been developing a way to mimic this process. Their idea is to use brain electrodes to understand the electrical patterns of activity that occur when memories are encoded, and then use those same electrodes to fire similar patterns of activity.
