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May 17, 2021

Is Ageing a disease and can it be CURED? Andrew Steele interview

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Hey guys — you might like this interview I did with Alex Steele about counter-ageing and the quest for biological immortality (focused around his new book ‘Ageless: The New Science of Getting Old Without Getting Older’. If you do very grateful for any subs to help support the channel!


I speak with Andrew Steele; author, scientist and anti-ageing campaigner about his book Ageless: The New Science of Getting Old Without Getting Older”. Interview covers why humans age, the growing anti-ageing movement, scientific progress over the past decade and potential anti-ageing treatments.

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May 17, 2021

Future sparkles for diamond-based quantum technology

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, quantum physics, supercomputing

Marilyn Monroe famously sang that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but they are also very popular with quantum scientists—with two new research breakthroughs poised to accelerate the development of synthetic diamond-based quantum technology, improve scalability, and dramatically reduce manufacturing costs.

While silicon is traditionally used for computer and mobile phone hardware, diamond has unique properties that make it particularly useful as a base for emerging quantum technologies such as quantum supercomputers, secure communications and sensors.

However there are two key problems; cost, and difficulty in fabricating the single crystal diamond layer, which is smaller than one millionth of a meter.

May 17, 2021

CAR-NKT Cell Therapy Can Induce Complete Remissions in Pediatric Neuroblastoma

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

CAR natural killer T cells that co-express GD2 and interleukin-15 were found to be safe and to demonstrate evidence of in vivo expansion and localization to metastatic sites in patients with stage IV relapsed/refractory neuroblastoma.

May 17, 2021

Creating a safe CAR T-Cell therapy to fight solid tumors in children

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Scientists modify CAR T-Cell therapy, making it more effective and less toxic, for possible use in solid tumors such as neuroblastoma.


Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy — CAR T — has revolutionized leukemia treatment. Unfortunately, the therapy has not been effective for treating solid tumors including childhood cancers such as neuroblastoma. Preclinical studies using certain CAR T against neuroblastoma revealed toxic effects. Now, a group of scientists at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have developed a modified version of CAR T that shows promise in targeting neuroblastoma, spares healthy brain tissue and more effectively kills cancer cells. Their study was published today in Nature Communications. While this work is in the preclinical phase, it reveals potential for lifesaving treatment in children and adults with solid tumors.

Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD, a physician scientist at the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute of CHLA, is working to improve the lifesaving CAR T-cell therapy, in which scientists take a patient’s own immune system T-cells and engineer them to recognize and destroy cancer cells.

“The CAR T therapy works in leukemia,” he says, “by targeting a unique protein (or antigen) on the surface of leukemia cells. When the treatment is given, leukemia cells are killed. CAR T turns the patient’s immune system into a powerful and targeted cancer-killer in patients with leukemia. This antigen is also on normal B cells in the blood, but this side effect can be treated medically.”

May 17, 2021

Recycling gives new purpose to spent nuclear fuel

Posted by in categories: chemistry, sustainability

Imagine filling up your gas tank with 10 gallons of gas, driving just far enough to burn a half gallon and discarding the rest. Then, repeat. That is essentially the practice that the U.S. nuclear industry is following.

Spent from power plants still has 95% of its potential to produce electricity. Current plans are to dispose of the spent nuclear fuel in a geologic repository. So, why is it not recycled? It turns out that separating usable versus unusable parts of spent nuclear fuel is complicated.

“Spent nuclear fuel contains roughly half of the periodic table. So, from a chemistry standpoint, there’s a lot going on,” said Gregg Lumetta, PNNL chemist and laboratory fellow. “And to reduce proliferation risk, it is best if pure plutonium is not produced at any point in the separation process.”

May 17, 2021

Watch an Atlas V rocket launch US Space Force missile-warning satellite today

Posted by in category: satellites

Liftoff is at 1:42 p.m. EDT (1742 GMT).


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an Atlas V rocket into space today (May 17), and you can watch the action live online.

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May 17, 2021

Ransomware’s Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Even when you pay for a decryption key, your files may still be locked up by another strain of malware.

May 17, 2021

Google suddenly pushes a little-known Pixel feature and it’s marvelous

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Did you know your Pixel had this? Did you know any phone had this? Google now wants you to know about it.

May 17, 2021

What Does Vitamin B12 Do For The Brain

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

The Latest Research


Two active forms of vitamin B12 offer support to the aging brain. Preclinical data shows one of the forms protects dopamine levels.

By Michael Downey.

May 17, 2021

Windows 10 has a built-in ransomware block, you just need to enable it

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode

Not the usual medical or science, but it may help someone.


Windows 10 comes with its own baked-in antivirus solution called Windows Defender, and it is enabled by default when setting up a new PC. At the very least, that affords you some basic protection against the many malware threats out in the wild. But did you know there is an added optional layer that can keep your pictures, videos, work documents, and other files safe in the event of a ransomware infection? The caveat is that you have to manually enable ransomware protection in Windows 10.

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