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Jul 13, 2022
Fukushima nuclear disaster: Former bosses ordered to pay $97 billion for damages
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
More than 11 years after the disaster, a court in Tokyo has awarded executives at the nuclear plant to pay monetary compensation for the damages.
Jul 13, 2022
Genetically modified pig hearts transplanted into two more patients
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
The team of researchers who transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into a living human earlier this year have completed two more pig heart transplant surgeries, setting the protocol for such operations.
In January this year, 57-year-old David Bennett became the first man on the planet to receive a heart from a genetically modified pig. Before this, researchers transplanted kidneys from similarly modified pigs into patients that were brain dead.
The organs are sourced from a company called Revivicor which uses genetic engineering to remove specific genes in the pigs to help in reducing transplant rejection while adding some that make the organs more compatible with the human immune system.
Jul 13, 2022
Global team of scientists discover new gene causing severe neurodevelopmental delays
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
The Neuro-Network.
𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬
𝘼𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙐𝘾 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙖 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙖… See more.
Jul 13, 2022
Verve starts first human test of gene editing treatment for heart disease
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
A patient in New Zealand became the first person to receive the biotech’s medicine, which uses base editing to turn off a specific gene in the liver and thereby lower cholesterol.
Jul 13, 2022
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free.
Jul 13, 2022
This Fish-Friendly Whirlpool Turbine Can Power Up to 60 Homes
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: energy, innovation
If you live near a river and want clean energy to power your home, we have great news for you. Belgian company Turbulent has created a fish-friendly whirlpool turbine that can be installed in only one week.
The innovative turbine can provide energy 24 hours a day for dozens of homes by being installed in most rivers and canals. It also delivers low-cost power as the generator just uses flowing water to produce energy.
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Jul 13, 2022
Scientists Have Created an AI That Can Think Like a Human Baby
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already far superior to humans in some tasks, such as playing Go or processing enormous amounts of data, yet even just a few months after we are born, AI is still far behind us in many other areas.
For instance, even very young kids instinctively understand that an object shouldn’t disappear and then reappearance somewhere else. Babies react with amazement when they witness such a magic trick.
Jul 13, 2022
Study Determines Psychedelic Mushroom Microdoses Can Improve Mood and Mental Health
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: neuroscience
Summary: Study reveals those who microdosed psilocybin for 30 days showed greater improvements in mood, mental health, and psychomotor abilities than those who did not microdose. The findings have positive implications for the use of psychedelics to help treat mental health disorders.
Source: University of British Columbia.
The latest study to examine how tiny amounts of psychedelics can impact mental health provides further evidence of the therapeutic potential of microdosing.
Jul 12, 2022
NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
Scientists and astronomers have been busy at work to monitor the sky, and they have updated the course of an asteroid that was meant to strike Earth.