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Feb 3, 2020

Lego Cryonaut Found a Way to Make Quantum Computing More Affordable

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Lego is an unusual candidate to make thermal computing cost less.

Feb 3, 2020

DR STEPHEN BADYLAK — Regen Med Strategies for Tissue & Organ Replacement (Long Version)

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension

Regenerative medicine and furthermore tissue engineering are realities for some time but well hidden from the public by msm somehow.


Dr. Stephen Badylak, Director of the Center for Pre-Clinical Tissue Engineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

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Feb 3, 2020

Tiny salamander’s huge genome may harbor the secrets of regeneration

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

“It regenerates almost anything after almost any injury that doesn’t kill it,” said Parker Flowers, postdoctoral associate in the lab of Craig Crews, the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and professor of chemistry and pharmacology.

If scientists can find the genetic basis for the axolotl’s ability to regenerate, they might be able to find ways to restore damaged tissue in humans. But they have been thwarted in the attempt by another peculiarity of the axolotl — it has the largest genome of any animal yet sequenced, 10 times larger than that of humans.

Now Flowers and colleagues have found an ingenious way to circumvent the animal’s complex genome to identify at least two genes involved in regeneration, they report Jan. 28 in the journal eLife.

Feb 3, 2020

Scientists have built the world’s first living, self-healing robots

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Do you think Xenobots is the early stage of nanobots, which could repair our body to achieve longevity escape velocity?


Scientists have created the world’s first living, self-healing robots using stem cells from frogs.

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Feb 2, 2020

Cloning musical heritage in the key of 3D

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

When Mina Jang played the same melodious tune on two different flutes behind a screen, she said the examiners grading her couldn’t tell the difference.

Yet the two instruments were made in dramatically different ways.

One was a handmade version of an original early 18th-century crafted in 2001, while the other was made of white plastic and “cloned” using a 3D printer in 2019.

Feb 2, 2020

Charity: how effective is giving? | The Economist

Posted by in category: innovation

Today’s super-rich are putting record sums into tackling the world’s most pressing problems. But how altruistic is this golden age of charitable giving?

Today’s super-wealthy are richer than ever. And they’re giving away their billions like never before. Philanthropists are putting record sums into tackling the world’s most pressing problems. And unlike the mega-donors of the past today’s philanthropists want to see the results in their lifetimes. But how altruistic is this new golden age of giving? Have these mega-donors become too powerful?

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Feb 2, 2020

Dutch-US Scientists Use Bacteria to Produce Graphene for Electronics

Posted by in categories: energy, engineering

An international group of researchers has made graphene more affordably and with a lower environmental impact than current chemical methods by using bacteria.

Graphene is a very strong and conductive material that could revolutionize electronics and engineering. However, producing graphene in large quantities requires lots of energy and involves toxic chemicals, such as hydrazine, which damages the nervous system.

Researchers from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and the University of Rochester in the US have worked to overcome these problems by using bacteria to produce graphene. Their work has been published in the journal ChemOpen.

Feb 2, 2020

Lab-grown meat could be in restaurants by 2021

Posted by in category: food

We do have to grow meat in the labs!


Maastricht-based Mosa Meat, which has in the past received more than $1m from Google cofounder Sergey Brin, said it hopes to sell its first products — most likely ground beef for burgers — in the next three years.

The aim is to achieve industrial-scale production two to three years later, with a typical hamburger patty costing about $1.

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Feb 2, 2020

Asteroid Mining Could Become a Reality in the Next Coming Years

Posted by in category: space

Any nation invested on this will be able to create its own trillionares!


There’s been a lot of fuss of late about asteroid mining and what it could mean for us Earthlings. But what will it take to make this happen, and should we even be doing it?

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Feb 2, 2020

Health Magazine Issue February 2020

Posted by in category: health