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Feb 18, 2020

How Gene Editing Is Changing the World

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

The applications are almost endless.


In “Hacking the Code of Life”, Nessa Carey explores advances that are giving us new powers to alter the genome.

Feb 18, 2020

The Coronavirus Is a Threat to the Global Drug Supply

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

It becomes obvious, that there are clump risks in the current setup of the global drug production.

There may soon be a shortage of certain drugs, such as some antibiotics (, as the only production facilities in China stopped producing them, due to the current Corona virus outbreak.

( e.g. consider that 97% of the antibiotics used in America are made in China according to an article by ABC7 news.

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Feb 18, 2020

Fragrance makers go digital

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence is being used in an unexpected way; helping perfume makers create their next great fragrance. Veuer’s Justin Kircher has the story.

Feb 18, 2020

Our Third Annual Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020 NYC Conference

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Lifespan.io is hosting its third annual conference on aging and rejuvenation biotechnology.

The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation/Lifespan.io, a nonprofit company promoting aging research, is hosting its third annual Ending Age-Related Diseases: Investment Prospects and Advances in Research conference on August 20–21 at the Stern Auditorium of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York City, USA).

The goal of this conference is to promote scientific and public discussion in order to foster the development of interventions that target aging and are capable of relieving our aging society from the burden of age-related diseases. Key topics of the conference include biomarkers of aging, discoveries in fundamental research, the development of interventions targeting the root mechanisms of aging, investment strategies, and regulatory issues that are relevant to rejuvenation research.

Feb 18, 2020

Should we make all Artificial Intelligence research publicly available?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Feb 18, 2020

How to Reduce Your Risk of Getting Cancer

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Feb 18, 2020

SpaceX will launch private citizens into orbit

Posted by in category: space travel

The private spaceflight company is working with Space Adventures, which has helped manage trips to the International Space Station. The tourists will fly in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, but there’s no word on when the flight will happen or how much it will cost.

Feb 18, 2020

New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery

Posted by in category: space

By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star.

Feb 18, 2020

The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Could Detect the Elusive Vacuum Friction

Posted by in category: particle physics

Scientists at Purdue University have made the fastest spinning object ever, a tiny ball of silicon dioxide that rotates 300 billion times per second. They positioned the microscopic silica balls in a vacuum and blasted them with two different lasers that induce the spin.

In 2018, scientists at the Institute for Photonics at ETH Zurich (a small, elite science university) created the first billion-RPM object and said they hoped it would accelerate, so to speak, the discovery of wild and unpredictable things. And that has certainly borne out, because the Purdue team has shown that even in a near vacuum, the spinning silica particles create measurable friction.

Feb 18, 2020

Correcting the jitters in quantum devices

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering, quantum physics

Labs around the world are racing to develop new computing and sensing devices that operate on the principles of quantum mechanics and could offer dramatic advantages over their classical counterparts. But these technologies still face several challenges, and one of the most significant is how to deal with “noise”—random fluctuations that can eradicate the data stored in such devices.

A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could provide a significant step forward in quantum correction. The method involves fine-tuning the system to address the kinds of noise that are the most likely, rather than casting a broad net to try to catch all possible sources of disturbance.

The analysis is described in the journal Physical Review Letters, in a paper by MIT graduate student David Layden, postdoc Mo Chen, and professor of nuclear science and engineering Paola Cappellaro.