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Jan 31, 2019
Senescent Cells and Senolytics
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
As your body ages, increasing amounts of your cells enter into a state of senescence. Senescent cells do not divide or support the tissues of which they are part; instead, they emit a range of potentially harmful chemical signals that encourage nearby cells to enter the same senescent state.
Their presence causes many problems: they degrade tissue function, increase levels of chronic inflammation, and can even eventually raise the risk of cancer. Today, we will talk about what senescent cells are, how they contribute to age-related diseases, and, perhaps most importantly, what science is hoping to do about the problem.
Jan 31, 2019
Driving An Actual Bipedal Mech Suit | Translogic 221
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: entertainment
We’ll be honest, over the years on Translogic we’ve featured a lot of potentially scary tech. Like in many facets of life though, often the things that seem the most frightening actually turn out to be some of the most incredible. On this episode, we’ve hit new heights of both fear and amazement as our host Bucko actually gets to drive a fully functional, bipedal, outrageously badass mech suit. Stop reading. Just watch.
Jan 31, 2019
The world’s first floating dairy farm will house 40 cows and be hurricane-resistant
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: climatology, sustainability
- The Dutch company Beladon is opening the world’s first floating dairy farm in the Netherlands.
- Located in Rotterdam, the farm will house 40 cows in a high-tech facility on the water.
- Minke van Wingerden, one of the project’s leaders, told Business Insider that the farm will produce an average of 211 gallons of milk each day.
- Most of the cows’ food will come from city waste products, such as grains left over from local breweries and by-products from mills.
- Beladon is also interested in launching floating chicken farms and floating vertical farming greenhouses.
A Dutch company is set to debut the world’s first floating dairy farm near Amsterdam.
A high-tech, multilevel facility will soon be floating in the water in Rotterdam, located roughly 50 miles outside of Amsterdam. Minke van Wingerden, a partner at the property development company Beladon, told Business Insider that the 89-by-89 foot farm will produce an average of 211 gallons of milk each day.
Jan 31, 2019
Translating Aging Research – Ending Age Related Diseases 2018
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Ending Age-Related Diseases — October 3, 2018.
This is a video from the Ending Age-Related Diseases 2018 conference, which was held earlier this year at the Cooper Union in New York City. The conference was designed to bring the worlds of research and investment together in one place and explore the progress and challenges that the industry faces in developing and funding therapies to end age-related disease.
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Jan 31, 2019
Lamborghini and MIT team up on electric supercar without batteries
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: energy, nanotechnology, transportation
Instead, the body of the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio concept car, made from exotic carbon nanotubes, would be used as a supercapacitor. Supercapacitors store and release energy in a manner different from that employed by batteries. They have certain advantages, but also serious disadvantages.
It could be years, if ever, before scientists from MIT and Lamborghini, which is part of the Volkswagen Group ( VLKAF ), can overcome the downsides. But the effort would be worth it, said Mauricio Reggiani, Lamborghini’s head of research and development.
“At the moment, we are really optimistic,” he said.
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Jan 31, 2019
Alphabet’s Loon sets its sights on the satellite industry
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
Satellite company Telesat will use Loon’s networking software to manage low Earth orbit constellations.
Jan 31, 2019
Arctic Weather Plunges into North America
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Desperately cold weather is now gripping the Midwest and Northern Plains of the United States, as well as interior Canada. The culprit is a familiar one: the polar vortex.
A large area of low pressure and extremely cold air usually swirls over the Arctic, with strong counter-clockwise winds that trap the cold around the Pole. But disturbances in the jet stream and the intrusion of warmer mid-latitude air masses can disturb this polar vortex and make it unstable, sending Arctic air south into middle latitudes.
Jan 31, 2019
Cutbacks at Stratolaunch, Virgin Galactic show the space industry is entering a second stage
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
January has been unforgiving for commercial space firms. SpaceX and Virgin Galactic laid off employees earlier this month, while Stratolaunch recently announced it would stop development of its rockets and rocket engine.
Jan 31, 2019
New Aging Clock Could Predict Your Future Lifespan
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
A new aging clock developed by Professor Steve Horvath and his research team takes measuring your biological age a step further and can accurately predict your future lifespan.
The epigenetic clock
As we age, our DNA experiences chemical changes called DNA methylation (DNAm); these changes are used as a way to measure age and are the basis of the epigenetic clock. As we age, the methylation patterns present on our DNA change, and researchers can measure these changes to work out how old an animal or person is.
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