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Apr 1, 2020
New test can detect COVID-19 in just five minutes
Posted by Future Timeline in category: biotech/medical
In yet another demonstration of how rapidly technology can advance, biotech firm Abbott Laboratories has developed a new molecular test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which delivers results in just five minutes.
Abbott Laboratories, headquartered in Illinois, United States, has been granted Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adapting COVID-19 tests to its ID NOW platform.
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Apr 1, 2020
Israel tests coronavirus vaccine prototype on rodents at defense lab
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel has begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its bio-chemical defense laboratory, a source said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), in rural Ness Ziona, to join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Feb. 1, prompting an easing of its secrecy as it cooperates with civilian scientists and private firms.
In a statement, Netanyahu’s office said IIBR director Shmuel Shapira had informed him of “significant progress” in designing a vaccine prototype and that the institute “is now preparing a model for commencing an animal trial”.
Apr 1, 2020
Not Made in China Is Global Tech’s Next Big Trend
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, economics
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Three years ago, manufacturing gadgets in China was a given. That’s changed fundamentally in the era of trade wars and coronavirus.
Under the new reality, the world’s electronics makers are actively seeking ways to diversify their supply chains and reduce their dependence on any single country, no matter how attractive.
Apr 1, 2020
This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to Coronavirus
Posted by Neurozo Huang in category: biotech/medical
This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to #Coronavirus: https://bit.ly/3bHkdnv by Dana G Smith Explaining why COVID-19 induces different symptoms on different individuals. #COVID19 #CoronavirusOutbreak
Here’s how the immune system responds when a person catches Covid-19 — and what that means for treatment.
Apr 1, 2020
Useful 3D printed tools against coronavirus COVID-19
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Don’t be stupid be innovative. Keep you, your friends and family safe. Here is a collection of free 3D printable tools that may help in this fight against coronavirus.
Here is a selection of the most useful 3D models to make with a 3D printer agains coronavirus covid-19.
Mar 31, 2020
Extreme high-frequency signals enable terabits-per-second data links
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: internet, mathematics, mobile phones
Using the same technology that allows high-frequency signals to travel on regular phone lines, researchers tested sending extremely high-frequency, 200 GHz signals through a pair of copper wires. The result is a link that can move data at rates of terabits per second, significantly faster than currently available channels.
While the technology to disentangle multiple, parallel signals moving through a channel already exists, thanks to signal processing methods developed by John Cioffi, the inventor of digital subscriber lines, or DSL, questions remained related to the effectiveness of implementing these ideas at higher frequencies.
To test the transmission of data at higher frequencies, authors of a paper published this week in Applied Physics Letters used experimental measurements and mathematical modeling to characterize the input and output signals in a waveguide.
Mar 31, 2020
Study determines burst properties of the most recurring transient magnetar
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: energy, space
Using NASA’s Fermi and Swift spacecraft, astronomers have investigated SGR J1935+2154, the most recurring transient magnetar known to date. The new research sheds more light on the burst properties of this object. The study is detailed in a paper published March 23 on the arXiv pre-print repository.
Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, more than 1 quadrillion times stronger than the magnetic field of Earth. Decay of magnetic fields in magnetars powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, for instance, in the form of X-rays or radio waves.
Discovered in 2014, SGR J1935+2154 has a spin period of 3.24 seconds, spin-down rate of 14.3 picoseconds/second, and a dipole-magnetic field with a strength at a level of approximately 220 trillion G, what confirms its magnetar nature. Since its detection, the source experienced more than 100 bursts, occurring almost annually.
Mar 31, 2020
New method predicts which black holes escape their galaxies
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: cosmology, evolution, physics
Shoot a rifle, and the recoil might knock you backward. Merge two black holes in a binary system, and the loss of momentum gives a similar recoil—a “kick”—to the merged black hole.
“For some binaries, the kick can reach up to 5000 kilometers a second, which is larger than the escape velocity of most galaxies,” said Vijay Varma, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology and an incoming inaugural Klarman Fellow at Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences.
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Mar 31, 2020
Sunny prospects for start-up’s clear solar energy windows
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: solar power, sustainability
A Redwood City, California-based tech startup has developed a glass window packed with transparent photovoltaic cells that it believes will revolutionize the way solar energy is harnessed.
As companies around the world are increasingly working to expand and improve upon renewable energy resources, solar-energy based companies have been working to extract more energy from ever-smaller solar cells. Some resistance to the technology stemmed from the unsightly physical appearance of giant solar units placed on rooftops or vacant fields.
But Ubiquitous Energy Inc. has taken a different approach. Instead of joining competitors in trying to reduce the size of each solar cell, the company instead designed a solar panel of virtually clear glass that allows light to pass through unobstructed while tapping into the invisible ranges of the light spectrum.