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Nov 21
2020

FDA allows emergency use of antibody drug Trump received

(AP) — U.S. health officials Saturday agreed to allow emergency use of a second antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental medicine that President Donald Trump was given when he was sickened last month.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized use of the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. drug to try to prevent hospitalization and worsening disease from developing in patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms.

The drug is given as a one-time treatment through an IV. The FDA allowed its use in adults and children 12 and over who weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kilograms) and who are at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19 because of age or certain other medical conditions.

Nov 21
2020

20 Insanely Cool Gadgets That Are Going to Sell Out in 2020

Tired of thinking about Christmas Gifts Ideas for families or friends? Well, we at Gadgets Laboratory are looking out for products that have great value and can help with making your everyday life simpler!

Nov 21
2020

This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Out-Produces 720 Acre ‘Flat Farms’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-…f7a547a57c to Nate Storey, the future of farms is vertical. It’s also indoors, can be placed anywhere on the planet, is heavily integrated with robots and AI, and produces better fruits and vegetables while using 95% less water and 99% less land.

95% less water. 99% less land. 400X more yield.

Nov 21
2020

Largest 3D-printed apartment building in Europe

This week, a German company deployed 3D printing technology to construct a new residential block, which is set to become the largest printed apartment building in Europe.

Nov 21
2020

Botnets have been silently mass-scanning the internet for unsecured ENV files

Threat actors are looking for API tokens, passwords, and database logins usually stored in ENV files.

Nov 21
2020

Israeli scientists say found a way to reverse the human aging process

“We are going backwards in time,” Prof. Shai Efrati said.

Nov 21
2020

Jeff Bezos’ Company Is Carrying Scientific Cargo to Space. It’s Not Amazon

Does the real future of Space exploration lie with enlightened private entrepreneurs such as Bezos & Musk or do national agencies still have a part to play? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/science/

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket hasn’t flown space tourists yet, but it has found a business niche with NASA and private science experiments.

Nov 21
2020

An Interview with David Ettinger on the Cryonics Institute (Detroit)

Nov 21
2020

Why I Want to Apply to SpaceX

A bit of a personal post, but it is very dear to me. Please share to everyone you know (especially to a SpaceX recruiter):

In today’s special video, I talk about why I want to apply to SpaceX as an associate buyer. This job application is very special to me because SpaceX has been my dream company ever since highschool. As such, if you find this video worthy, please share (especially to any SpaceX recruiters).

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Nov 21
2020

CRISPR Technique Effectively Destroys Metastatic Cancer Cells in Living Animal

The work was conducted in the laboratory of Dan Peer, PhD, VP for R&D and Head of the Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine at the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at TAU. The research was conducted by Daniel Rosenblum, PhD, together with PhD student Anna Gutkin and colleagues in Peer’s laboratory and other collaborators.

The study “CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing using targeted lipid nanoparticles for cancer therapy” appears in Science Advances.

“Harnessing CRISPR-Cas9 technology for cancer therapeutics has been hampered by low editing efficiency in tumors and potential toxicity of existing delivery systems. Here, we describe a safe and efficient lipid nanoparticle (LNP) for the delivery of Cas9 mRNA and sgRNAs that use a novel amino-ionizable lipid,” write the investigators.