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Mar 29, 2020

Chuck Norris Warns of Rebellion, Martial Law if America’s COVID Strategy Doesn’t Change

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, law

TRENDING: kathy griffin tried to cut in line for COVID test, turns out she had diarrhea after mexico trip

“And if even the smallest transgression of confinement restrictions ends up being a misdemeanor, how will officials handle tens of millions of them?”

Norris pointed out that if police are expected to enforce the curfews, they too could become stricken with coronavirus.

Mar 29, 2020

Newly developed laboratory model helps reveal how HIV infection affects the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Though many negative repercussions of human immunodeficiency virus infection can be mitigated with the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART), one area where medical advances haven’t made as much progress is in the reduction of cognitive impacts. Half of HIV patients have HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), which can manifest in a variety of ways, from forgetfulness and confusion to behavior changes and motor deficiencies.

To better understand the mechanisms underlying HAND, researchers from Penn’s School of Dental Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine and from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) brought together their complementary expertise to create a laboratory model system using three of the types of brain cells thought to be involved. Led by doctoral student Sean Ryan, who was co-mentored by Kelly Jordan-Sciutto of Penn Dental Medicine and Stewart Anderson of CHOP and Penn Medicine, the model recapitulates important features of how HIV infection and ART affect the brain.

“Frankly the models we generally use in the HIV field have a lot of weaknesses,” says Jordan-Sciutto, co-corresponding author on the paper, which appears in the journal Stem Cell Reports. “The power of this system is it allows us to look at the interaction between different cell types of human origin in a way that is more relevant to patients than other models.”

Mar 29, 2020

AI Can Help Scientists Find a Covid-19 Vaccine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence has already played a vital role in the outbreak since day 1—a reminder for the first time in a while that it can be a tool for good.

Mar 29, 2020

Plymouth Cuda “Hellacuda” Brought Back to Life as Hellcat-Based Muscle Car

Posted by in category: transportation

The Cuda is credited by some with being the first pony car. However, while the Mustang survives to this day, the Barracuda is dead… along with the whole Plymouth brand.

23 photos.

Mar 29, 2020

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G

Posted by in categories: internet, mobile phones

Android smartphone. Announced Feb 2020. Features 6.9″ Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, Exynos 990 chipset, 5000 mAh battery, 512 GB storage, 16 GB RAM, Corning Gorilla Glass 6.

Mar 29, 2020

6 people injured after tornado leaves trail of significant damage in Jonesboro, Arkansas

Posted by in category: climatology

Search and rescue efforts continue as sunlight shows the extensive damage left after Jonesboro, Arkansas, took a direct hit from a tornado on Saturday, causing major damage.

Mar 29, 2020

This Engine Could One Day Save Us From Planetary Disaster

Posted by in category: asteroid/comet impacts

Didymos, a 2,650-foot-wide asteroid, has an atypical cosmic companion— a 535 foot-wide satellite named Didymoon (10). These new two celestial bodies are not making a dangerous rendezvous with Earth, but they do provide an interesting opportunity for an apocalyptic dress rehearsal. NASA and ESA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will head to Didymos, to knock Didymoon off course. Along with its six picture-snapping Italian Space Agency cubesats, the mission will also send a follow-up ESA spacecraft named Hera to definitively answer if we can manipulate the trajectory of Earth-bound asteroids.

Mar 29, 2020

We’re not going back to normal

Posted by in category: futurism

Mar 17 2020


Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.

Mar 29, 2020

Outpouring of support from MIT’s worldwide community bolsters Institute’s Covid-19 response

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Alumni and supporters look to MIT in time of crisis.

Mar 29, 2020

Based Team Works on Rapid Deployment of Open-Source, Low-Cost Ventilator

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.