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Mar 24, 2020
New test can detect COVID-19 within 45 minutes
Posted by Future Timeline in category: biotech/medical
California-based biotech company Cepheid Inc reports that it has been granted FDA approval for a new rapid diagnostic test, able to detect the COVID-19 virus in just 45 minutes.
Mar 24, 2020
World’s fastest supercomputer finds potential drug compounds for COVID-19
Posted by Future Timeline in categories: biotech/medical, supercomputing
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used Summit, the world’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer, to identify 77 small-molecule drug compounds that might warrant further study in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The team performed simulations of more than 8,000 compounds to screen for those that are most likely to bind to the main “spike” protein of the coronavirus, rendering it unable to infect host cells. They ranked compounds of interest that could have value in experimental studies of the virus.
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Mar 24, 2020
From Sand to Silicon: The Making of a Microchip | Intel
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: computing, innovation
Ever wonder what’s under the hood of your favorite electronic device? The transistor is the engine that powers every Intel processor. To build a modern computer chip, our engineers place billions of these tiny switches into an area no larger than a fingernail. It’s one of mankind’s most complex feats, and it’s happening every day across Intel’s global network of chip manufacturing facilities. Check out this video to learn more about how we turn sand into the silicon chips that power the world.
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Mar 23, 2020
MIT Ventilator Designed With Common Manual Resuscitator; Submitted For FDA Testing
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, space
MIT’s Open Source ventilator design submitted for fast-track FDA approval. #COVID19
In many parts of the world the COVID-19 pandemic is causing shortages in hospital space, staff, medical supplies, and equipment. Severe cases may require breathing support, but there are only so many ventilators available. With that in mind, MIT is working on FDA approval of an emergency ventilator system (E-Vent). They have submitted the design to the FDA for fast track review. The project is open source, so once they have approval the team will release all the data needed to replicate it.
Mar 23, 2020
Evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry in a topological superconductor
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: materials
O,.,o woah.
Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting materials with distinctive topological properties, in which time-reversal symmetry is broken. Two of the first materials to be identified as chiral superconductors are UPt3 and Sr2RuO4. So far, experimental evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry in both these materials was based primarily on surface measurements collected at a magnetic field equal to zero.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University, however, recently set out to gather new evidence for the chiral superconductivity of the material UPt3, moving beyond surface measurements at conditions with a zero magnetic field. Their paper, published in Nature Physics, contains the results of truly bulk measurements of UPt3 with an applied magnetic field, which provide direct evidence of broken time-reversal symmetry in the material.
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Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
This movement towards a more automated society has some positives: it will help us stay healthy during times like the present, it will drive down the cost of goods and services, and it will grow our GDP in the long run. But by leaning into automation, will we be enabling a future that keeps us more physically, psychologically, and emotionally distant from each other?
We’re in a crisis, and desperate times call for desperate measures. We’re sheltering in place, practicing social distancing, and trying not to touch each other. And for most of us, this is really unpleasant and difficult. We can’t wait for it to be over.
For better or worse, this pandemic will likely make us pick up the pace on our path to automation, across many sectors and processes. The solutions people implement during this crisis won’t disappear when things go back to normal (and, depending who you talk to, they may never really do so).
Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Alerts Consumers About Unauthorized Fraudulent COVID-19 Test Kits
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: biotech/medical
Mar 23, 2020
This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return
Posted by Tracy R. Atkins in category: health
Public leaders & health officials:
The only thing that matters right now is the speed of your response.