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Mar 24, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

SARS-CoV-2 uses the SARS-CoV receptor ACE2 for host cell entry.

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 is primed by TMPRSS2.

Antibodies against SARS-CoV spike may offer some protection against SARS-CoV-2.

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Mar 24, 2020

Microsoft gets ready for a new era of Windows

Posted by in category: futurism

Microsoft’s new Windows leader, Panos Panay, is getting ready for a new era of Windows. The first change is a new Windows Insider leader, and we expect to see lots of small and steady improvements to Windows in the coming months.

Mar 24, 2020

Team develops photosynthetic proteins for expanded solar energy conversion

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological, solar power, sustainability

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has developed a new photosynthetic protein system enabling an enhanced and more sustainable approach to solar-powered technological devices.

The initiative is part of a broader effort in the field of to use proteins in place of man-made materials which are often scarce, expensive and can be harmful to the environment when the device becomes obsolete.

The aim of the study, published today in Nature Communications, was the development of “chimera” complexes that display poly-chromatic solar energy harvesting.

Mar 24, 2020

Reno is home to one of the world’s largest ventilator companies. We talked with its CEO about COVID-19

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Company is growing to meet demand, taking extra measures to protect workforce and won’t raise prices, CEO says.

Mar 24, 2020

FDA will allow doctors to treat critically ill coronavirus patients with blood from survivors

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The FDA gave doctors the OK to begin using convalescent plasma donated by COVID-19 survivors to treat critically ill coronavirus patients.

Mar 24, 2020

Google Invents AI That Learns a Key Part of Chip Design

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

AI helps designs AI chip that might help an AI design future AI chips.

Mar 24, 2020

Frequently Asked Questions About Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business

1. Why Amazon will last longer than most businesses during the Covid-19 epidemic.

2. The challenges Amazon must overcome during the Covid-19 epidemic.

3. Ideas as to how they can overcome the challenge Amazon faces.

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Mar 24, 2020

Stephen Hawking –“Treating AI as Science Fiction Would Potentially Be Our Worst Mistake Ever“

Posted by in categories: alien life, information science, robotics/AI

“We should plan ahead,” warned physicist Stephen Hawking who died last March, 2018, and was buried next to Isaac Newton. “If a superior alien civilization sent us a text message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here, we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not, but this is more or less what has happened with AI.”

The memorial stone placed on top of Hawking’s grave included his most famous equation describing the entropy of a black hole. “Here Lies What Was Mortal Of Stephen Hawking,” read the words on the stone, which included an image of a black hole.

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Mar 24, 2020

A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be the First That Outwits Nature

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, nanotechnology

Using algorithms, scientists can simulate how different nanoparticles interact with the antigen component—and how well they activate the immune system.

Mar 24, 2020

Reversing Cellular Aging Takes Another Step Forward

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated they can rejuvenate human cells, making them more like young cells again, by rewinding an epigenetic aging clock.