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Mar 20, 2022

Janice Chen, Nathan Chen’s sister, is building a $100 billion CRISPR gene editing company

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry, government

Janice Chen, Ph.D., one of Olympic gold medalist Nathan Chen’s siblings, is on a mission to build a $100 billion biotech company.

In 2018, she co-founded Mammoth Biosciences with Trevor Martin, Lucas Harrington and Jennifer Doudna 0, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry two years later for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing. Doudna also served as Chen’s mentor while she pursued her doctorate degree in molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Mar 20, 2022

Russia Confirms It Is Using Hypersonic Missiles In Ukraine

Posted by in category: military

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“Allegedly footage of Russian Kh-47M2…”

Mar 20, 2022

TOP 7 Future Technologies That Will Change EVERYTHING

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Let’s look at some of the best emerging technologies!

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Mar 20, 2022

Marmots may hold the secret to longevity

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

This disparity gets at the difference between one’s chronological age — how old they are in years — and their biological age, which is how their body has aged naturally and in response to its environment. The two can diverge in ways that are either blessings or curses. Hence why those who grow up under extreme stress or in polluted environments may look much older than they actually are.

And yellow-bellied marmots can tell us something about these two ages.

Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer) are no burrow-dwelling meteorologists like the groundhog. They may sound craven, but these quirky critters, also known as whistle pigs, make for fascinating subjects: the cat-sized rodents have a longer lifespan than expected for a mammal of their size. On average, marmots live 15 years.

Mar 20, 2022

In Pictures: A Remarkable Spanish Shipwreck Is Yielding New Insights Into How the Ancient Romans Lived

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers have discovered a wholly-in tact Roman vessel that sank around the fourth century AD off the coast of Mallorca in Spain.

Mar 20, 2022

Scientists are tantalizingly close to cracking any ancient texts wide open

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A deep neural network could help classicists restore incomplete inscriptions from ancient times — and reveal new works of literature.

Mar 20, 2022

Bacteria in the Nose Can Sneak Into the Brain — May Increase Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

New research from Griffith University has shown that a bacterium commonly present in the nose can sneak into the brain and set off a cascade of events that may lead to Alzheimer’s disease.

Associate Professor Jenny Ekberg and colleagues from the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research at Menzies Health Institute Queensland and Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, in collaboration with Queensland University of Technology, have discovered that the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae can invade the brain via the nerves of the nasal cavity.

Mar 20, 2022

The metaverse will change the paradigm of content creation

Posted by in categories: blockchains, business, economics, finance

Decentralizing talent

More than 50 million creators are driving their own economy of talent, attracting in excess of $800 million in venture capital. Such figures are but a shadow of what they can become later, as new venues are rapidly becoming available.

The development of blockchain technologies has resulted in a sweeping revolution across financial markets, empowering individuals instead of institutions and channeling ownership of data and funds to their holders. The qualities of the blockchain — immutability, full transparency and the trustless nature of operations — have permeated many industries, swooning the balance of business orientation from centralized corporate reliance to decentralization. This shift in the basic concepts that govern relations between participants to transactions, facilitated by smart contracts, has not gone unnoticed in the creator economy.

Mar 20, 2022

Behold! Colossal NASA Moon rocket revealed in full for the first time

Posted by in category: space

NASA rolled out the rocket that will power its Artemis missions, giving the public a glimpse at the sheer scale of the agency’s ambitious space launch vehicle.

Mar 20, 2022

Scientists Discover “Secret Sauce” Behind Exotic Properties of Unusual New Quantum Material

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

Work will aid design of other unusual quantum materials with many potential applications.

MIT physicists and colleagues, including scientists from Berkeley Lab, have discovered the “secret sauce” behind the exotic properties of a new quantum material known as a kagome metal.

Kagome metals have long mystified scientists for their ability to exhibit collective behavior when cooled below room temperature.