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Dec 2, 2019
Cyrus, the Broad team up to make in vivo CRISPR use safer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Cyrus Biotechnology has teamed up with the Broad Institute to optimize CRISPR for use in humans. Feng Zhang, who had a hand in developing CRISPR, will serve as the Broad’s principal investigator for the collaboration.
One concern with using CRISPR-Cas9 to perform in vivo genome editing stems from the risk that the body will mount an immune response against the system. Those concerns have grown as researchers have shown that many people have antibodies against Cas9, reflecting the fact that the homologs of the protein used in genome editing systems are derived from bacteria that commonly infect people.
Cyrus, which lists Johnson & Johnson among its customers, thinks its technology can mitigate the risk of an immune reaction. That confidence reflects Cyrus’ experience of using software to identify and work around the epitopes in protein therapeutics that cause immunogenicity.
Dec 2, 2019
A vertical takeoff drone for life saving missions
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: drones
Dec 2, 2019
Europe’s Space Agency Joins Mission to Deflect Killer Asteroids
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
The goal is to change the trajectory of a city-killer asteroid.
NASA and the ESA are going to try to reroute an asteroid.
Dec 2, 2019
How suspicions of spying threaten cross-border science
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, quantum physics, science
An intelligence startup warns that China is exploiting Western quantum scientists for military ends. The evidence is thin, but tensions are rising.
Dec 2, 2019
How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
A decades-old idea is finally getting a chance to shine—that is, a chance to send sunshine harvested by a satellite down to Earth.
Dec 2, 2019
Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy.
The black hole dubbed LB-1 is 15,000 light years from Earth.
Dec 2, 2019
Human behaviour follows probabilistic inference patterns
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: futurism
How do human beings perceive their environment and take their decisions? To successfully interact with the immediate environment, for human beings it is not enough to have basic evidence of the world around them. This information by itself is insufficient because it is inherently ambiguous and requires integrating into a particular context to minimize the uncertainty of sensory perception. But, at the same time, the context is ambiguous. For example, am I in a safe or a dange…
According to a study published on Nov. 28 in Nature Communications by Philipp Schustek, Alexandre Hyafil and Rubén Moreno-Bote, researchers at the Center for Brain and Cognition of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona
