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Jan 16, 2019
If Yellowstone erupts where should I go? What will happen?
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
What’s the solution to this problem?
Did you know that the Yellowstone supervolcano could erupt at any time causing death, destruction, chaos, and possibly even a nuclear winter that could wipe out a good number of the inhabitants of planet earth? If it does, where would you go?
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A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception.
- By Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris, Ph.D. on January 15, 2019
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Jan 16, 2019
A Floating Glass Bead Could Help Physicists Probe the Unknown
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, particle physics
Jan 16, 2019
Forget Darwinian Evolution. Humanity May Soon Evolve Itself Through A.I.
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biological, Peter Diamandis, robotics/AI
Jan 16, 2019
Researchers Create Perfect Blood Vessels in a Petri Dish for the First Time
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Jan 16, 2019
Antibiotics Are Failing Us. Crispr Is Our Glimmer of Hope
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Jan 16, 2019
Scientists Claim They Can Predict Your Lifespan From Your DNA
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
Jan 16, 2019
Scientists grow perfect human blood vessels in a petri dish
Posted by Manuel Canovas Lechuga in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
The breakthrough engineering technology, outlined in a new study published today in Nature, dramatically advances research of vascular diseases like diabetes, identifying a key pathway to potentially prevent changes to blood vessels — a major cause of death and morbidity among those with diabetes.
An organoid is a three-dimensional structure grown from stem cells that mimics an organ and can be used to study aspects of that organ in a petri dish.
“Being able to build human blood vessels as organoids from stem cells is a game changer,” said the study’s senior author Josef Penninger, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Functional Genetics, director of the Life Sciences Institute at UBC and founding director of the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA).
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LEAF writer Nicola Bagalà recounts meeting an old lady on the street and considers what might have happened in a world free from age-related diseases.
I would like to share a story about an encounter I had a couple of years back, when I was nearing the end of my university studies. At the time, I lived in a student apartment pretty much on the outskirts of Helsinki, Finland. Like most of Finland, this area is beautiful and brimming with green everywhere in the summer, but at the end of March— which is when the story takes place—it still looks like a barren, icy desert, and during a late evening like the one on which I had my encounter, it can be very cold and dark.
That evening, my girlfriend and I were coming back from the nearby supermarket, carrying two or three heavy bags full of groceries and looking forward to being home. We were talking about something I can’t recall when we passed right next to another person whose figure I could not make out very well. I had a feeling that it was a woman, but that’s all I could tell. As we walked away from her, I thought I could hear a voice calling—maybe it was her, but I told myself that she was probably talking on the phone or something. I heard her calling again, at which point I turned around to check if she was actually trying to catch our attention.
