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Jul 16, 2019
Images: Right now Chandra is studying Jupiter’s X-ray auroras!
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Unlike Earth’s northern & southern auroras, Jupiter’s auroras appear to behave independently of each other. Combining data from Chandra, NASA’s Juno mission, & ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory could help explain why!
Jul 16, 2019
AI Drug Hunters Could Give Big Pharma a Run for Its Money
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, economics, health, robotics/AI
But a less-noticed win for DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence arm of Google’s parent Alphabet Inc., at a biennial biology conference could upend how drugmakers find and develop new medicines. It could also dial up pressure on the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to prepare for a technological arms race. Already, a new breed of upstarts are jumping into the fray.
Alphabet’s DeepMind cracked a problem that long vexed biologists, heating up a technological arms race in health care.
Jul 15, 2019
Study gives insight into sun-induced DNA damage and cell repair
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
A team led by a Baylor University researcher has published a breakthrough article that provides a better understanding of the dynamic process by which sunlight-induced DNA damage is recognized by the molecular repair machinery in cells as needing repair.
Ultraviolet light from the sun is a ubiquitous carcinogen that can inflict structural damage to the cellular DNAs DNA carries important blueprints for cellular functions, failure in removing and restoring damaged parts of DNA in a timely fashion can have detrimental outcomes and lead to skin cancers in humans, said lead author Jung-Hyun Min, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences.
Min and her team showed how the repair protein Rad4/XPC would bind to one such UV-induced DNA damage—6–4 photoproduct—to mark the damaged site along the DNA in preparation for the rest of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) process in cells.
Jul 15, 2019
The Forgotten Astronaut: Michael Collins and Apollo 11
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: education, space
A short documentary revolving around Michael Collins and his experience during the Apollo 11 moon landing mission.
Compiled from archival footage and interviews.
Jul 15, 2019
Bolonkin Explores Ultimate Uploading and Technology
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, nanotechnology, nuclear energy
One of the main speculations about future technology is uploading. This is where our minds are copied in exact detail from our biological physical bodies and then created in artificial bodies. Alexander Bolonkin has posited many kinds of technology over the decades. He has a recent work which is summarized here where he considers that future uploading will mean that we can then use super-technology (nanotechnology, nuclear fusion etc…) to make people into literal gods and supermen. We can use control of matter, energy and information to make what he calls the E-man. Bolonkin then indicates that uploading and creation of minds could be used for the resurrection of long-dead people. This would be where we create the very close approximation of dead people. This would be like using gene editing to turn an African Elephant into a Whooly Mammoth. The vast technological capability would let us actualize what would be a simulation into living entities.
Bolonkin’s Case for E-Man and Resurrection
Alexander Bolonkin looks at methods and possibilities for electronic resurrection of long-dead outstanding personalities. He also considers the principles and organization of the new E-society, its goals and conditions of existence.
Jul 15, 2019
NASA Astronauts Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing On Board the Space Station
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
As the first human beings stepped onto the Moon, the whole world watched in awe. Now, the #Apollo50th anniversary is being celebrated by those on AND off the world. NASA Astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague are celebrating on board the International Space Station. More: https://youtu.be/CIQMsI87jmA
Jul 15, 2019
Human bioacoustic biology: Acoustically anomalous vocal patterns used to detect biometric expressions relating to structural integrity and states of health
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: biological, health, privacy
Computerized analyses of acoustically anomalous vocal patterns are being used as biomarkers for predictive, prediagnostic, and efficient management of individual biological form and function. To da…
Jul 15, 2019
Neurotech Salon lets talk Brain Computer Interfaces, Neuroscience, and Code
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience
Lets meet to talk brain computer interfaces, neuroscience, collaboration and coding. Lets pitch projects to one another, join existing projects, write code together, build new brain computer interfaces and more.
Thinking about past NeurotechX SF meetups I think I like the Salon aspect the most, where people just meet up to talk about neuroscience, brain computer interfaces and coding. So I’m renaming this event series to “Neurotech Salon”, it’s every two weeks in San Francisco at the Red Victorian! Get ready to meet interesting people to talk about things like the future of brain machine interfaces, you can pitch your project, or perhaps join someone elses project, you can talk about your work in developing software, hardware, or your work in medical research, or talk about your studies as an academic.
Confirm your RSVP by making a charitable donation to a real charity like this one here https://www.facebook.com/donate/837355799969191/ in the amount of $5 dollars or more. If you feel like you can’t afford it just skip a meal, and take the money you would have paid for that meal and apply it to this event.
