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Sep 26, 2021

Zydus Cadila: What we know about India’s new Covid vaccines

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The ZyCoV-D vaccine is also the world’s first DNA vaccine against Covid-19.

Like other vaccines, a DNA vaccine, once administered, teaches the body’s immune system to fight the real virus.

ZyCoV-D uses plasmids — or small rings of DNA that contain genetic information — to deliver the jab between two layers of the skin.

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Sep 26, 2021

World First As Human ‘Breast Milk’ Is Created In A Lab

Posted by in category: futurism

The female-led start-up wants to give parents a new alternative to formula.

Sep 26, 2021

Dr. Robert Zubrin presents his book “The Case for Space” 19:00 UTC

Posted by in category: space

Mon, Oct 4 at 12 PM PDT.


Interested.

Sep 26, 2021

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch internet satellite to serve Alaska in 2022

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

Falcon Heavy is now scheduled to loft Astranis’ first commercial communications satellite to orbit next spring, the San Francisco-based company announced Thursday (Sept. 23).

Sep 26, 2021

Vaccination slows antimicrobial resistance

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

A new computer model demonstrates that vaccinations have impacts well beyond just preventing disease and death: they can also slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Pneumococcal diseases—which include illnesses ranging from inner ear infections to pneumonia and meningitis—are a leading cause of death globally among children under five. While there are effective vaccines against pneumococcal diseases, access is still a challenge for populations in low-income—and some middle income—countries. And antimicrobial resistance to the antibiotics commonly used to treat these infections is a growing problem.

“We wanted to the value of vaccinating—not only to show that vaccination reduces death or disability from these diseases, but also to quantify whether vaccination can slow antimicrobial resistance,” says Andrew Stringer, an assistant professor of veterinary and global health at NC State.

Sep 26, 2021

This French startup hopes to become the Uber of water transportation

Posted by in category: transportation

SeaBubbles is a French startup that hopes to become the Uber of the waterways.

Sep 26, 2021

Israeli mask 99.95% protective against Delta strain, European lab says

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

The Israeli mask company Sonovia has released a report from a leading Italian textile-testing laboratory showing that its fabric eliminates the COVID-19 Delta variant particles with over 99.95% effectiveness.


The lab is next expected to test the fabric against the MU strain, which carries several mutations to the spike gene, and is labeled a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization, said Sonovia Chief Technology Officer Liat Goldhammer-Steinberg.

The MU strain has not yet entered Israel, according to any official reports, but Health Ministry officials have warned of its potential negative impact.

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Sep 26, 2021

SpaceX satellite signals used like GPS to pinpoint location on Earth

Posted by in categories: engineering, internet, satellites

Columbus OH (SPX) Sep 24 2021 — Engineering researchers have developed a method to use signals broadcast by Starlink internet service satellites to accurately locate a position here on Earth, much like GPS does. It is the first ti.

Sep 26, 2021

Attempting To Further Reduce Biological Age: hs-CRP

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, life extension

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Levine’s Biological age calculator is embedded as an Excel file in this link:
https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/

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Sep 26, 2021

Life-like cells are made of metal

Posted by in categories: biological, evolution, particle physics

Circa 2011 o,.o Foglet bodies around the corner sooner than we think 🤔


Could living things that evolved from metals be clunking about somewhere in the universe? Perhaps. In a lab in Glasgow, UK, one man is intent on proving that metal-based life is possible.

He has managed to build cell-like bubbles from giant metal-containing molecules and has given them some life-like properties. He now hopes to induce them to evolve into fully inorganic self-replicating entities.

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