While scientists around the world pursue ways to extend the human healthspan, cancer cells have found a way to become immortal.
For the first time, researchers have discovered how one type of cancer – melanoma – achieves that immortality.
Bioengineers used a modular, step-by-step chemical technique to create algae that carry antibiotic payloads.
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.com/papers.
❤️ Their mentioned post is available here: http://wandb.me/variable-bitrate.
📝 The paper “Variable Bitrate Neural Fields” is available here:
https://nv-tlabs.github.io/vqad/
🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible:
Aleksandr Mashrabov, Alex Balfanz, Alex Haro, Andrew Melnychuk, Benji Rabhan, Bryan Learn, B Shang, Christian Ahlin, Edward Unthank, Eric Martel, Geronimo Moralez, Gordon Child, Jace O’Brien, Jack Lukic, John Le, Jonas, Jonathan, Kenneth Davis, Klaus Busse, Kyle Davis, Lorin Atzberger, Lukas Biewald, Luke Dominique Warner, Matthew Allen Fisher, Matthew Valle, Michael Albrecht, Michael Tedder, Nevin Spoljaric, Nikhil Velpanur, Owen Campbell-Moore, Owen Skarpness, Rajarshi Nigam, Ramsey Elbasheer, Richard Sundvall, Steef, Taras Bobrovytsky, Ted Johnson, Thomas Krcmar, Timothy Sum Hon Mun, Torsten Reil, Tybie Fitzhugh, Ueli Gallizzi.
If you wish to appear here or pick up other perks, click here: https://www.patreon.com/TwoMinutePapers.
Thumbnail background design: Felícia Zsolnai-Fehér — http://felicia.hu.
What dead whales can teach us about finding aliens.
Posted on Big Think, direct link at.
Posted on BigThink.
A study published Wednesday in the JAMA Psychiatry journal shows that four key genetic variations are more common in military veterans who have taken their own life or considered it.
Scientists from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found the pattern while analyzing blood samples from a database that included 633,778 U.S. veterans, cross-referenced with the International Suicide Genetics Consortium of more than 549,000 individuals.
The obtained samples were sequenced to create genetic profiles compared to participants’ medical records, showing that 121,211 recorded cases of attempted suicide or thoughts about killing themselves.
If everything goes to plan, double SpaceX Falcon 9 launches are set to liftoff just minutes apart between 4 and 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16.
Well… that’s me uninvited to the bioethicist’s christmas party…
Bioethicists frequently dictate what patients can and cannot do with their own bodies, and yet the general public very rarely questions this. Maybe it’s time we started to question what right bioethicists have to dictate what we can and cannot do with our own bodies?
‘We can learn a lot more using sound than we can with some of the other tools,’ says one researcher.