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Jun 9, 2022
Houston Startup Unveils Stargazer, a Mach 9 Hypersonic Spaceplane Concept
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space travel
A company that wants to make “one-hour global flight” possible needs to move fast as well. Just two months after a Series A funding round that enabled it to secure $20 million, this young aerospace company in Houston, Texas, is now unveiling the design concept of its flagship spaceplane called Stargazer.
Jun 9, 2022
Beefalo, a bison-cattle hybrid, is being touted as the healthy meat of the future
Posted by Shane Hinshaw 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.
Jun 9, 2022
This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research
Posted by Shane Hinshaw 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 Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension
Jun 9, 2022
Surgical Needles / Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Equipment
Posted by Quinn Sena 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 Quinn Sena 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 Kelvin Dafiaghor 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 Len Rosen 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 Ira S. Pastor 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.