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Apr 17, 2022
These upcoming cancer vaccines may prevent tumors before they appear
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Therapies designed to increase T cell’s killing power and ability to target cancer after it appears have already been approved, and they can be quite successful at treating some cancers. (More recent work is recruiting another type of immune cell, the awesomely named natural killer cells, to fight cancer.)
Vaccines that prevent cancer caused by viruses, like hepatitis B and HPV, already exist, but the vast majority of cancers have other causes — inherited mutations, external causes (like smoking or UV exposure), or just random bad luck.
A vaccine against cancers caused by Lynch syndrome — an inherited disorder — will be among the first to test if a vaccine can stop nonviral cancers from appearing. The Lynch trial is among several looking to test a new generation of preventative cancer vaccines.
Apr 17, 2022
AGE Products Impact Lifespan: Impact Of Hyperglycemia, Kidney Function, And The Microbiome
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
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Papers referenced in the video:
Oral glycotoxins determine the effects of calorie restriction on oxidant stress, age-related diseases, and lifespan.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18599606/
Apr 17, 2022
A Case Of Shrunken Brains: How Covid-19 May Damage Brain Cells
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
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Comparing brain volume before and after individuals were exposed to SARS-CoV-2, this study documents significant cortical gray matter loss, equivalent to nearly 10 years of aging.
Apr 17, 2022
Tesla unveils giant new 360 MWh Megapack project that is going to help power 60,000 homes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, sustainability
Tesla has unveiled its latest giant Megapack project consisting of 360 MWh of energy storage capacity used in concert with a solar farm to help power 60,000 homes.
Arevon is becoming one of Tesla’s biggest partners in the deployment of energy storage capacity.
Last year, Tesla and Arevon signed a deal for the former to supply a record amount of 2 GW/6 GWh of Megapack batteries to the latter for several new energy storage projects.
Apr 17, 2022
The universe would not make sense without mathematics
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: mathematics, space
Mathematics is the language of the universe: It is probable that every major scientific discovery has used mathematics in some form.
Apr 17, 2022
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries That Could Last For Thousands Of Years
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: nuclear energy, transportation
Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line, is set to revolutionize London transport, with high-speed trains running from east to west underneath the UK capital.
Apr 17, 2022
Inside London’s new $25B ‘Super Tube’
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: transportation
Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line, is set to revolutionize London transport, with high-speed trains running from east to west underneath the UK capital.
Apr 17, 2022
Drones, hackers and mercenaries — The future of war | DW Documentary
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, drones, internet, military, surveillance
A shadow war is a war that, officially, does not exist. As mercenaries, hackers and drones take over the role armies once played, shadow wars are on the rise.
States are evading their responsibilities and driving the privatization of violence. War in the grey-zone is a booming business: Mercenaries and digital weaponry regularly carry out attacks, while those giving orders remain in the shadows.
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Apr 17, 2022
A flexible way to grab items with feeling: Engineers develop a robotic gripper with rich sensory capabilities
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
The notion of a large metallic robot that speaks in monotone and moves in lumbering, deliberate steps is somewhat hard to shake. But practitioners in the field of soft robotics have an entirely different image in mind—autonomous devices composed of compliant parts that are gentle to the touch, more closely resembling human fingers than R2-D2 or Robby the Robot.
That model is now being pursued by Professor Edward Adelson and his Perceptual Science Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In a recent project, Adelson and Sandra Liu—a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at CSAIL—have developed a robotic gripper using novel “GelSight Fin Ray” fingers that, like the human hand, is supple enough to manipulate objects. What sets this work apart from other efforts in the field is that Liu and Adelson have endowed their gripper with touch sensors that can meet or exceed the sensitivity of human skin.
