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Apr 9, 2020

Pfizer clinches coronavirus vaccine deal, sees potential in antiviral treatment

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

It also said it plans to support studies to determine whether existing Pfizer medicines, including its rheumatoid arthritis drug Xeljanz, may provide benefits for those struggling with the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. More than a dozen large drugmakers, including Pfizer, have announced plans in recent months to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus, although few if any are likely to reach patients in time to stem the current outbreak. Pfizer first revealed plans to try to develop an antiviral compound for COVID-19 in March, and later said it was working with BioNTech SE (22UAy. F) on a potential vaccine based on messenger RNA technology.


U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Thursday that early data has helped it identify a drug candidate with the potential to help treat patients infected with the novel coronavirus.

Apr 9, 2020

50 Million People May Gather For The ‘Greater American Eclipse,’ The Most Watched Event Ever

Posted by in category: futurism

A total solar eclipse is coming to the US, Canada and Mexico.

Apr 9, 2020

Engineer uses metal-oxide nanomaterials deposited on cloth to wipe out microbes

Posted by in categories: biological, chemistry, engineering, health, nanotechnology, sustainability

In an effort to make highly sensitive sensors to measure sugar and other vital signs of human health, Iowa State University’s Sonal Padalkar figured out how to deposit nanomaterials on cloth and paper.

Feedback from a peer-reviewed paper published by ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering describing her new fabrication technology mentioned the metal-oxide nanomaterials the assistant professor of mechanical engineering was working with—including , cerium oxide and copper oxide, all at scales down to billionths of a meter—also have .

“I might as well see if I can do something else with this technology,” Padalkar said. “And that’s how I started studying antimicrobial uses.”

Apr 9, 2020

China starts 6G development technology a week after 5G launch

Posted by in category: internet

China has officially begun the research and development of 6G technology.

The news came less than a week after the country rolled out its superfast 5G network.

The country’s Technology Bureau has formally set up a team of experts to work on the next-generation mobile internet connection, state media said today.

Apr 9, 2020

New TRISO Nuclear Mini-Reactors Will Be Safe: Program Manager

Posted by in categories: energy, military

If the Pentagon does build the mobile reactors, it will deploy them far from the front lines – and even if they’re hit, their revolutionary TRISO fuel pellets will stay intact at temperatures that can melt steel.

Apr 9, 2020

Technology in medicine: What will the future healthcare be like?

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, augmented reality, biotech/medical, bitcoin, drones, internet, nanotechnology, robotics/AI, virtual reality, wearables

#Technology in #medicine: What will the #future #healthcare be like? https://www.neurozo-innovation.com/post/future-health Technologies have made many great impacts on our medical system in recent years. The article will first give a thorough summarization of them, and then the expectations and potential problems regarding future healthcare will be discussed. #AI #5G #VR #AR #MR #3DPrinting #BrainComputerInterface #telemedicine #nanotechnology #drones #SelfDriving #blockchain #robotics #innovation #trend


Technology has many beneficial effects on modern people’s lives, and one of them is to prolong our lifespan through advancing the medical field. In the past few years, new techniques such as artificial intelligence, robots, wearable tech, and so on have been used to improve the quality of our healthcare system, and some even newer innovations such as flying vehicles and brain computer interface are also considered valuable to the field. In this article, we will first give a thorough discussion about how these new technologies will shape our future healthcare, and then some upcoming problems that we may soon face will be addressed.

Apr 9, 2020

This is how COVID-19 has changed media habits in each generation

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

We’re consuming unprecedented levels of media to stay entertained whilst staying safe indoors.

Apr 9, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 and outbroken at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China, becomes a worldwide pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the betacoronavirus genus and has 79.5% identity to SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV-2 uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as its host entry receptor.

Apr 9, 2020

The Pentagon Wants an Orbital Space Weapon to Blast Enemy Missiles

Posted by in categories: military, particle physics, space

You know the scene in “Akira” where Tetsuo rips a satellite space weapon out of orbit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxh-IjxG2KY

Now the U.S. military wants to try something similar, according to Defense One. The Pentagon is requesting hundreds of millions of dollars to ramp up space-based weaponry including particle beams and space lasers that’ll fire downward at Earthly targets — a dark vision of the militarization of space.

Apr 9, 2020

Reconstructing the clock of human development

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers led by Kyoto University have reconstituted the human ‘segmentation clock’ — a key focus of embryonic development research — using induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSCs.