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Jun 9, 2022

Beefalo, a bison-cattle hybrid, is being touted as the healthy meat of the future

Posted by in categories: food, genetics

Not that Thier should be more animals raised for meat.


But beefalo does have its opponents.

“We just don’t think there should be beefalo,” said Martha McFarland, farmland viability coordinator for the advocacy group Practical Farmers of Iowa. She also raises cattle and bison, but said she would never mix the two.

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Jun 9, 2022

This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A small trial using the drug dostarlimab yielded an unprecedented success rate in eliminating tumors.

Jun 9, 2022

Inside the US lab freezing the dead at —196C — BBC REEL

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension

Wojtek Tek.

Tenor.

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Jun 9, 2022

Surgical Needles / Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Equipment

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The fascinating stories and secrets behind hit Japanese products, plus parts and machines that boast the top share of niche markets. In the first half: the story behind the world’s smallest surgical needles—only 0.03mm in diameter. In the second half: pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment essential for making pills. They apply coatings which allow easier ingestion and controlled release of the medicine. We go behind the scenes with the Japanese company that develops this equipment.

Jun 9, 2022

Real-Life ‘Star Trek’ Tractor Beams Will Change How We Practice Medicine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, tractor beam

Circa 2015


Star Trek’s ideal view of medicine is closer than we think.

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Jun 9, 2022

Scientists grew living human skin around a robotic finger

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

In the hopes of one day building super realistic cyborgs, researchers built a robotic finger that wears living human skin.

Jun 9, 2022

Japan’s Asteroid Mission Return Sample Supports the Idea of Panspermia

Posted by in categories: materials, space

Did life begin on Earth, or did it come from space? Amino acids, peptides and proteins may have an off-world origin giving credence to panspermia.


Twenty amino acids discovered in the sample materials returned provide evidence to support the evolving panspermia hypothesis.

Jun 9, 2022

Andrea De Souza — Eli Lilly — Leveraging Big Data & Artificial Intelligence For Unmet Medical Needs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, health, information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Leveraging big data & artificial intelligence to solve unmet medical needs — andrea de souza — eli lilly & co.


Andrea De Souza, is Associate Vice President, Research Data Sciences and Engineering, at Eli Lilly & Company (https://www.lilly.com/) where over the past three years her work has focused around empowering the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) organization with greater computational, analytics-intense experimentation to raise the innovation of their scientists.

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Jun 9, 2022

Energy Dome launches world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

Italian company Energy Dome has announced the successful launch of its first CO2 Battery facility in Sardinia, Italy. The milestone marks the final de-risking of the CO2 Battery technology as Energy Dome enters the commercial scaling phase, becoming the first commercial long-duration energy storage technology on the market offering a reliable alternative to fossil fuels for dispatchable baseload power globally.

The Energy Dome CO2 battery uses carbon dioxide to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind energy, over a long period and release it quickly. Energy Dome says the technology can be quickly deployed anywhere in the world at less than half the cost of similar-sized lithium battery storage facilities.

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Jun 9, 2022

Scientists uncover clues about the generation of nanomachines in Salmonella

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have captured a clear view of the generation process of “protein machinery” that plays a key role in the colonization of pathogenic Salmonella bacteria.

The findings, published in Nature Communications, answer an important question about how various proteins self-assemble to create a higher-ordered functional organelle in Salmonella to boost metabolism.

Many , such as Salmonella, use specialized nano-sized organelles, or bacterial microcompartments (BMC). The BMC has a virus-like polyhedral shell made of proteins to encase multiple metabolic cargo enzymes. The protein shell provides a selectively permeable barrier which controls the passage of metabolites and sequesters the reactions in its interior. This ensures higher efficiency of the encapsulated reactions and prevents toxic products from being released into the rest of the cell, providing the pathogens a competitive advantage in human gut.