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Dec 17, 2018

Biotech startup Kineta inks cancer deal with Pfizer worth up to $505M

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The Seattle-based biotech company will use the funding in its efforts to kill cancerous tumors using the same immune system response pathway that fights the flu.

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Dec 17, 2018

MIT Researchers Can Shrink Objects to Nanoscale

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, quantum physics

MIT researchers invented a method of shrinking objects to the nanoscale.

The team can generate structures one-thousandth the volume of the original using a variety of materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.

Existing techniques—like etching patterns onto a surface with light—work for 2D nanostructures, but not 3D. And while it’s possible to make 3D nanostructures, the process is slow, challenging, and restrictive.

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Dec 17, 2018

Tuesday may deliver a triple-header of big launches to cap 2018

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance all are on the docket.

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Dec 17, 2018

Found: Upside-Down Waterfalls, Steaming Mud, and Blue Microbes on the Ocean Floor

Posted by in category: biological

An unusual hydrothermal ecosystem erupts in the Gulf of California.

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Dec 17, 2018

Building a Quantum Future in Canada

Posted by in categories: futurism, quantum physics

An Interview with Christian Weedbrook, CEO of Xanadu Quantum Technologies.

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Dec 17, 2018

UC San Diego Awarded $2 Million to Advance Algae-based Renewable Polymers

Posted by in category: futurism

UC San Diego scientists have been granted $2 million to develop new methods for manufacturing products based on algae. Biologist Stephen Mayfield will lead efforts to develop novel platforms to produce biologically based monomers that will be used to manufacture renewable and biodegradable products.

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Dec 17, 2018

Progress in super-resolution microscopy

Posted by in category: futurism

Going deeper and deeper into cells with the microscope; imaging the nucleus and other structures more and more accurately; getting the most detailed views of cellular multi-protein complexes: All of these are goals pursued by the microscopy expert Markus Sauer at the Biocenter of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. Together with researchers from Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland, he has now shown that a hitherto uncertain method of super-resolution microscopy is reliable.

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Dec 17, 2018

Edible film kills bacteria in seafood

Posted by in category: food

While it’s important to keep food of any type fresh, it’s particularly crucial with seafood, as it can become tainted with toxic bacteria. That’s why an international group of scientists is developing a transparent antibacterial film that gets eaten along with the seafood it’s covering.


Dec 17, 2018

Gene-edited farm animals are coming. Will we eat them?

Posted by in categories: food, genetics, government, sustainability

Society and the government aren’t sure what to make of new techniques for animal breeding.

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Dec 17, 2018

Self-Organizing Molecules Could Store Data in Individual Atoms

Posted by in category: particle physics

New research helps make existing tech actually become feasible.

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