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Jun 25, 2020

KFC Opens Automated Store

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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In Moscow, the Colonel’s recipe is now being served by robotic arms!

Jun 25, 2020

China ‘becoming true space power’ as satellite launch completes BeiDou system

Posted by in category: satellites

Observers said that the fully fledged system could put China in a competitive position against the world’s three other satellite navigation networks – the US-owned Global Positioning System (GPS), the European Union’s Galileo and Russia’s Glonass. It could also expand China’s international engagement and offer an alternative to other countries that had been reliant on US technology, they said.


Final satellite in the navigation network – China’s answer to the US-owned GPS – is sent into orbit on Tuesday after technical problems delayed it by a week.

Jun 25, 2020

From Jekyll to Hyde: Genetic Mutation That Makes E. Coli Deadlier Pinpointed

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

Scientists identify an important protein that increases “bacterial virulence,” when mutated, changing harmless bacteria to harmful ones.

As far as humans are concerned, bacteria can be classified as either harmful, pathogenic bacteria and harmless or beneficial non-pathogenic bacteria. To develop better treatments for diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, we need to have a good grasp on the mechanisms that cause some bacteria to be virulent. Scientists have identified genes that cause virulence, or capability to cause disease, but they do not fully know how bacteria evolve to become pathogenic.

To find out, Professor Chikara Kaito and his team of scientists from Okayama University, Japan, used a process called experimental evolution to identify molecular mechanisms that cells develop to gain useful traits, and published their findings in PLoS Pathogens. “We’re excited by this research because no one has ever looked at virulence evolution of bacteria in an animal; studies before us looked at the evolution in cells,” said Prof Kaito.

Jun 25, 2020

Investing in Life Extension Means Affordable Longevity for Everyone – Sergey Young with Dave Asprey

Posted by in category: life extension

The Longevity Vision Fund invests in technologies, products, and services that extend healthy human lifespans and decrease negative aging effects.

Jun 25, 2020

Fat Stem Cell Therapy | Adipose Stem Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Fat cell aspirste can be part of regenerative medicine treatments for degenerated body tissues such as joints, muscles, tendon and ligaments.

Jun 25, 2020

CRISPR gene editing in human embryos wreaks chromosomal mayhem

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Three studies showing large DNA deletions and reshuffling heighten safety concerns about heritable genome editing.

Jun 25, 2020

If the moon were replaced with some of our planets(at night)

Posted by in category: space travel

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#MoonExploration

#SpaceExploration

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Jun 25, 2020

Single-gene treatment cures mice of Parkinson’s within three months

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

While there are ways to alleviate some symptoms, there is currently no way to prevent or cure Parkinson’s disease, so the prospect of a one-off treatment that completely eliminates it is certainly an exciting one. While such a therapy remains a while off, scientists have demonstrated an exciting proof of concept in mice, whereby inhibiting a single gene as a one-time treatment eradicated the disease entirely, and kept it at bay for the remainder of their lives.

The research was carried out at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and centers on a protein called PTB, which plays a role in which genes are switch on and off in a cell. The team was experimenting with techniques whereby the gene that encodes for PTB is switched off so researchers can determine the flow-on effects of a reduction in the that protein on other cell types, and found peculiar results when working with connective tissue cells called fibroblasts.

In one experiment, the team created a cell line that was permanently lacking PTB, and after a couple of weeks found that there was only a small amount of fibroblasts remaining in the dish, which was brimming with neurons instead. Building on this, the team was able to use a single treatment to inhibit the activity of PTB in mice, which reprogrammed support cells in the brain called astrocytes into neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Jun 25, 2020

A Quantum Signature for the Cosmos

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

Certain galaxy patterns might encode whether the Universe’s primordial density fluctuations were quantum or classical in nature.

Jun 25, 2020

Immortality Or Bust: Transhumanism In The White House

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, geopolitics, military, policy, transhumanism

Leading futurist Tracey Follows has written an article at Forbes on #transhumanism documentary IMMORTALITY OR BUST. Check it out!


Zoltan has a more radical idea of change than almost anything else you are seeing on your TV screens today but the mainstream media continue to miss him. That’s why it’s good to see he has made his own documentary film explaining to a broader audience what he’s doing, how it all works, and why they should be interested in transhumanism at all.

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