NU-9, a novel, non-toxic protein, targets upper motor neurons and reverses damage associated with ALS within 60 days of treatment.
Summary: NU-9, a novel, non-toxic compound, targets upper motor neurons and reverses damage associated with ALS within 60 days of treatment.
Source: Northwestern University
Summary: Injecting a patient’s own bone marrow derived stem cells significantly improved motor function within weeks in those with spinal cord injuries.
Source: Yale
New research conducted at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in collaboration with the COVID-IFEMA Field Hospital has found patients suffering from severe COVID-19 have shortened telomere lengths.
Internet sleuths solved it in 6 hours!
NASA hid a secret message on the parachute that landed its Perseverance rover down on the surface of Mars last week.
Astronomers think they’ve finally detected the long-hidden, sought-after neutron star remnant at the center of the nearby Supernova 1987A.
Astronomers think they’ve detected long-hidden neutron star remnant at the central core of the nearby Supernova 1987A.
Posted in physics, robotics/AI
Bronstein’s paper highlighted how research in many scientific fields such as computational social science, sensors network, physics, and healthcare calls for exploring non-Euclidean data.
Code of the Wild (Documentary) at Hello Tomorrow in Paris.
www.codeofthewild.org to watch the trailer and explore the film.
George Church, Antonio Regalado, and Josiah Zayner discuss designer babies, moratorium on human germ line engineering, and the future of the genomic revolution with Jane Metcalfe, co-founder of Wired Magizine and founder of Neolife (https://neo.life/)
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A team of researchers at Universität Stuttgart has developed an ion-optics-based quantum microscope that is capable of creating images of individual atoms. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group explains how they built their microscope and how well it worked when tested.
Posted in encryption, robotics/AI
Privacy remains an issue, because artificial intelligence requires data to learn patterns and make decisions. But researchers are developing methods to use our data without actually seeing it — so-called federated learning, for example — or encrypt it in ways that currently can’t be hacked.
Many of us already live with artificial intelligence now, but researchers say interactions with the technology will become increasingly personalized.
Whoever manages it first, we are on the cusp of a new age sparked by fusion giving more than it gets (producing more energy than it uses), then miniaturization for practical use and mass manufacture. That would essentially mean that we have access to an infinite, cheap, safe, and clean energy source. No more coal. No more nuclear waste. Massively less global warming. Even better, given the fact that the world runs on an energy economy built around energy scarcity, we will essentially become a post-scarcity civilization. And THAT my friends is a permanent, impossible to overstate game changer. For EVERYTHING and EVERYONE — FOREVER.
But first, scientists need to see if it’s ready.
