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Feb 13, 2020

Utilizing Biopharma 4.0 to Boost Coronavirus 2019-nCoV Vaccine Efforts

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Scientists are scrambling to develop a vaccine against coronavirus 2019-nCoV and plan to use advanced bioprocessing methods and techniques to accelerate production.

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At present there is no vaccine against the coronavirus However, various groups have started working on them, including Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

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Feb 13, 2020

Robot completes first round of “supermicrosurgeries” on human patients

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

A highly precise form of reconstructive surgery, known as supermicrosurgery, seeks to connect ultra-thin blood and lymph vessels as a way of restoring them to healthy function. This requires a high level of expertise on part of the surgeons, but they may soon have a new robotic tool at their disposal called Musa, which has performed its first round of procedures with great success.

Supermicrosurgery is a relatively new medical technique that focuses on reconnecting vessels with diameters ranging from 0.3 mm to 0.8 mm. One of its primary applications is tackling lymphedema, which commonly occurs following breast cancer treatment and leads to swelling and localized fluid retention. Given the delicate nature of the process, only a small number of surgeons are currently capable of performing these operations.

Microsure is a Dutch startup spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology and Maastricht University Medical Centre, where researchers have been developing a robot to take on the task of supermicrosurgery. Called Musa, the robot is controlled by a surgeon, but translates their hand movements into more precise actions for a set of robotic hands.

Feb 13, 2020

Disease found in fossilized dinosaur tail afflicts humans to this day

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The fossilized tail of a young dinosaur that lived on a prairie in southern Alberta, Canada, is home to the remains of a 60-million-year-old tumor.

Feb 13, 2020

Watch Drone Dome laser take down DJI Phantoms [video]

Posted by in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI

Take a look at this latest Israeli-developed counter-drone technology and watch the Drone Dome laser, dubbed Light Blade, take down a number of DJI Phantoms. The video that was uploaded to YouTube today shows a truck-mounted version of Drone Dome, a Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) weapon. The setup includes a search radar, drone-radio command detector, an electro-optical sensor, and a command-and-control system.

Feb 13, 2020

Watch a SpaceX launch this weekend from Cape Canaveral

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – If you missed the last few Space Coast launches because they happened late at night or during the workday, this weekend’s SpaceX launch will be a good opportunity to see one.

SpaceX is targeting Saturday morning to launch another round of internet-beaming satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40.

The launch window opens at 10:46 a.m. and ends at 11:02 a.m.

Feb 13, 2020

Electrode Brain Implant Could Potentially Zap People Out of Comas

Posted by in category: neuroscience

It’s a ways off from use, but this dream could be a waking reality soon.

Feb 13, 2020

Top CDC official says US should prepare for coronavirus ‘to take a foothold’

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is preparing for the new coronavirus, which has killed at least 1,115 and sickened more than 45,000 worldwide, to “take a foothold in the U.S.”

“At some point, we are likely to see community spread in the U.S. or in other countries,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call. “This will trigger a change in our response strategy.”

Feb 13, 2020

New material has highest electron mobility among known layered magnetic materials

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

All the elements are there to begin with, so to speak; it’s just a matter of figuring out what they are capable of—alone or together. For Leslie Schoop’s lab, one recent such investigation has uncovered a layered compound with a trio of properties not previously known to exist in one material.

With an international interdisciplinary team, Schoop, assistant professor of chemistry, and Postdoctoral Research Associate Shiming Lei, published a paper last week in Science Advances reporting that the van der Waals material gadolinium tritelluride (GdTe3) displays the highest electronic mobility among all known layered . In addition, it has magnetic order, and can easily be exfoliated.

Combined, these properties make it a promising candidate for new areas like magnetic twistronic devices and spintronics, as well as advances in data storage and device design.

Feb 13, 2020

US military prepping for coronavirus pandemic

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, military

U.S. Northern Command is bracing for an outbreak of the new coronavirus on U.S. soil, if it should occur.

Feb 13, 2020

Calling all veterinarians: the Dog Aging Project needs you

Posted by in category: life extension

Practice teams are urged to share details with clients about this canine longevity study, whose long-term goal is to help pets and people live longer, healthier lives.