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Mar 27, 2020
INHABIT: : A Permaculture Perspective : A new docuemntary introducing permaculture: designing a world where and planet can thrive
Posted by Maico Rivero in category: futurism
A Permaculture Perspective : A new docuemntary introducing permaculture: designing a world where and planet can thrive.
Mar 27, 2020
Vir Biotechnology reports early progress in antibody treatment for Covid-19
Posted by Roderick Reilly in category: biotech/medical
Vir Biotechnology, a San Francisco-based biotechnology firm, said Wednesday that laboratory testing showed two of its antibody drugs appeared to neutralize the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 and that it would pursue testing them in people.
The company said that human tests of the drugs could begin in three to five months, putting it roughly in line with two other efforts to produce anti-coronavirus antibodies. Regeneron, based in Tarrytown, N.Y., has said that its antibodies could enter trials by early summer — and that its treatment, if it proves effective, could be available for some uses in the fall. Eli Lilly, which is developing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies with AbCellera, a Vancouver biotech, has said it hopes to begin human tests in four months.
“Stopping this disease will take a combination of prevention and treatment approaches,” Vir CEO George Scangos said in a statement. “At Vir, we are fortunate that our existing antibody platform gave us a running start against COVID-19, and we have the internal and partnered capabilities to work on multiple approaches.”
Mar 27, 2020
Groundbreaking At-Home Coronavirus Antibody Test Available In The U.K. ‘Within Days’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Topline : Thousands of at-home coronavirus antibody tests, used to detect whether someone has had and is potentially resistant to the virus, will be made available in the U.K. within days, a public health director has said, following calls for more frontline workers to be tested.
Mar 27, 2020
Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: information science, robotics/AI
A new reinforcement-learning algorithm has learned to optimize the placement of components on a computer chip to make it more efficient and less power-hungry.
3D Tetris: Chip placement, also known as chip floor planning, is a complex three-dimensional design problem. It requires the careful configuration of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of components across multiple layers in a constrained area. Traditionally, engineers will manually design configurations that minimize the amount of wire used between components as a proxy for efficiency. They then use electronic design automation software to simulate and verify their performance, which can take up to 30 hours for a single floor plan.
Time lag: Because of the time investment put into each chip design, chips are traditionally supposed to last between two and five years. But as machine-learning algorithms have rapidly advanced, the need for new chip architectures has also accelerated. In recent years, several algorithms for optimizing chip floor planning have sought to speed up the design process, but they’ve been limited in their ability to optimize across multiple goals, including the chip’s power draw, computational performance, and area.
Mar 27, 2020
Chinese researchers ‘delete’ memories from rats with CRISPR gene editing
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, neuroscience
Mar 27, 2020
A new report raises hope that the blood of recovered patients can help treat severe coronavirus cases
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: biotech/medical
Five critically ill COVID-19 patients got better after receiving the treatment. Three have left the hospital and two are in stable condition.
Mar 27, 2020
SpaceX stacks third Starship prototype ahead of testing (photos)
Posted by Roderick Reilly in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
The latest test version of the Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft, called the SN3, has been stacked at SpaceX’s South Texas facilities, new photos tweeted out by company founder and CEO Elon Musk show.
Mar 27, 2020
MitoMouse March Update – Backer Rewards Delayed
Posted by Paul Battista in category: life extension
Mar 27, 2020
Shrimp vendor at Wuhan market may be coronavirus ‘patient zero’
Posted by Tracy R. Atkins in category: biotech/medical
A shrimp peddler at the Chinese market where the coronavirus pandemic likely began has been identified as one of the first victims of the disease — and possibly “patient zero.”
The 57-year-old woman, identified by the Wall Street Journal as Wei Guixian, was the first person from the now-notorious Huanan market in Wuhan to test positive for the deadly bug.
She was at work Dec. 10 when she developed what she thought were cold symptoms, Chinese outlet The Paper reported. So she walked to a small local clinic for treatment and then went back to work — likely spreading the contagion.