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Aug 3, 2021
High-energy laser weapons move quickly from prototype to deployment
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: chemistry, military, robotics/AI
High-energy #lasers are moving quickly from prototype to deployment for the #USArmy and #USNavy. We’ve helped make that happen.
A brief history of high-energy lasers.
The U.S. military has had electromagnetic spectrum weapons in mind since the 1960s. Throughout the 1980s, industry and military laid the groundwork for figuring out how to reach practical power levels, beam control and adaptive optics. The Department of Defense officially recognized lasers as a plausible future weapon in 1999, marking the beginning of formal research and development.
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Aug 3, 2021
Cracking one more layer of genetic code will finally enable personalized medicine, researcher says
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, genetics
When the Human Genome Project reached its ambitious goal of mapping the entire human genome, it seemed the world was entering an era of personalized medicine, where evidence from our own specific genetic material would guide our care.
That was 2003, and nearly a generation after that spectacular collaborative achievement, we are still waiting for that promise to materialize. We may know that a person carries a gene associated with breast cancer, for example, but not whether that person will go on to develop the disease.
New research by McMaster University evolutionary biologist Rama Singh suggests the reason is that there is another, hidden layer that controls how genes interact, and how the many billions of possible combinations produce certain results. That layer is composed of largely uncharted biochemical pathways that control gene expression in cells through chemical reactions.
Aug 3, 2021
FDA authorizes first Covid antibody treatment to prevent infections
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
😃 yay.
The unvaccinated or people with weak immune systems at high risk of severe disease can receive an injection if exposed to an infected person.
Aug 3, 2021
Hands to print | Russian tech firm gifts kid with 3D-printed arms
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, cyborgs
A Skolkovo tech company presents its 3D printing production technology for prosthetic limbs.
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Aug 3, 2021
The Creation of Abstract Thoughts in the Brain
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI
Summary: Combining artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, and brain imaging data, researchers shed light on the neural processes that occur when people use mental abstraction.
Source: UCL
By using a combination of mathematical modeling, machine learning and brain imaging technology, researchers have discovered what happens in the brain when people use mental abstractions.
Aug 3, 2021
RNA CRISPR gene editing boosts gene knockdown in human cells
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, chemistry, genetics
Modified RNA CRISPR boosts gene knockdown in human cells.
In the latest of ongoing efforts to expand technologies for modifying genes and their expression, researchers in the lab of Neville Sanjana, PhD, at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and New York University (NYU) have developed chemically modified guide RNAs for a CRISPR system that targets RNA instead of DNA. These chemically-modified guide RNAs significantly enhance the ability to target – trace, edit, and/or knockdown – RNA in human cells.
Longevity. Technology: In the study published in Cell Chemical Biology, the research team explores a range of different RNA modifications and details how the modified guides increase efficiencies of CRISPR activity from 2-to 5-fold over unmodified guides. They also show that the optimised chemical modifications extend CRISPR targeting activity from 48 hours to four days.
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Aug 3, 2021
Researchers identify cell type that regulates liver regeneration with touch
Posted by Jason Blain in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
From the time of Aristotle, it has been known that the human liver has the greatest regenerative capacity of any organ in the body, being able to regrow even from a 70% amputation, which has enabled live-donor transplants. Although the liver regenerates fully upon injury, the mechanisms that regulate how to activate or stop the process and when regeneration is terminated, are still unknown. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden (Germany), at the Gurdon Institute (Cambridge, UK) and at the University of Cambridge (Biochemistry Department) have now found that a regulatory cell type—mesenchymal cell—can activate or stop liver regeneration. The mesenchymal cells do so by the number of contacts they establish with the regenerating cells (epithelial cells). This study suggests that mistakes in the regeneration process, which can give rise to cancer or chronic liver diseases, are caused by the wrong number of contacts between both populations. The work is described in a paper published in the journal Cell Stem Cell on 2nd August 2021.
The molecular mechanisms by which adult liver cells trigger the regenerative response remain largely unknown. Approximately 29 million people in Europe suffer from a chronic liver condition such as cirrhosis or liver cancer. They are a major cause of morbidity and mortality with liver diseases accounting for approximately two million deaths per year worldwide. Currently, there is no cure and liver transplants are the only treatment for liver failure. Scientists are therefore exploring new options for how to trigger the regenerative capacity of the liver as an alternative means to restore function.
And here is a really smart person talking about brain interfaces.
In this talk we introduce Shivon Zilis, Project Director at Neuralink, to her team’s work and the ethical impacts of implanting technology into the brain. We learn about the latest developments in Neuralink’s technology and the goals the team keeps in mind when designing and implementing technology that could change the way humans interact and understand technology.
Aug 3, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, AI Lectures, AI Conferences, AI TED Talks, AI Movies, AI Books
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