A Japanese start-up is planning to test a ground-based fusion laser to combat the growing threat of space debris.
Docking and berthing are not just about connecting two spacecraft; they are vital for crew transfer, resupply missions, and the assembly and maintenance of the ISS.
As of December 22, 2023, the ISS hosted four spacecraft: the SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew spacecraft, the Soyuz MS-24 crew ship, and the Progress 85 and 86 resupply ships. In January, the Axiom-3 crew arrived in another Dragon spacecraft.
The future of space exploration relies on these intricate docking procedures, which will continue to evolve with new technologies and spacecraft.
Treating complex diseases such as skin cancer often requires simultaneous administration of multiple anticancer drugs. The delivery of such life-saving therapeutic drugs has evolved with the rise of nanotechnology-based drug carriers. Nanoplatforms offer numerous advantages, including increased bioavailability, lowered dosages, and improved biodistribution.
Now a team of researchers, led by Professor Myoung-Hwan Park from Sahmyook University in South Korea, has developed a light-responsive nanofiber-based novel drug delivery system (DDS) targeting skin cancer. The DDS was studied in a detailed manner, beginning with its synthesis and characterization to its biocompatibility, drug release profile, and efficacy against skin cancer. These research findings are published in the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology.
Explaining the motivation behind the present research, Dr. Park states, “Conventional drugs can be efficiently delivered in a controlled manner through nano-engineered platforms, and such an approach increases the overall effectiveness of the treatment. This approach improves outcomes in cancer drug therapy by ensuring precise delivery at optimal dosages.”
Cryptocurrency is usually “mined” through the blockchain by asking a computer to perform a complicated mathematical problem in exchange for tokens of cryptocurrency. But in research appearing in the journal Chem a team of chemists has repurposed this process, asking computers to instead generate the largest network ever created of chemical reactions which may have given rise to prebiotic molecules on early Earth.
This work indicates that at least some primitive forms of metabolism might have emerged without the involvement of enzymes, and it shows the potential to use blockchain to solve problems outside the financial sector that would otherwise require the use of expensive, hard to access supercomputers.
“At this point we can say we exhaustively looked for every possible combination of chemical reactivity that scientists believe to had been operative on primitive Earth,” says senior author Bartosz A. Grzybowski of the Korea Institute for Basic Science and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
This is good info but I’d like to do it naturally. I wonder if healing my gut biome with pro and prebiotics can help. There’s been psychiatric side effects with ozempic in a few cases. There’s often some kind of side effect when not natural but some people could benefit if monitored by a doctor.
Popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, target metabolic pathways that gut microbes and food molecules already play a key role in regulating.
“Our modeling suggests that shallow moonquakes capable of producing strong ground shaking in the south polar region are possible from slip events on existing faults or the formation of new thrust faults,” said Dr. Thomas R. Watters.
Objects expand and contract from heating and cooling, and planetary objects are no different, which includes our nearest celestial neighbor, our Moon. Billions of years ago, the Moon was very volcanically active which caused it to expand from all the internal heat driving the volcanic activity. However, as this internal heat died down, the Moon began to cool, and has been contracting, or shrinking, ever since. Now, a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal discusses how this shrinkage could be responsible for the lunar south pole becoming warped, leading to landslides and moonquakes, which increases safety risks for future astronauts, specifically with NASA’s Artemis program.
For the study, the researchers developed models of how seismic waves from moonquakes could cause powerful ground shaking and landslides near the lunar south pole, which is home to de Gerlache scarp, with a scarp being a geologic feature formed from the Moon contracting. Data from the Apollo Passive Seismic Network, which were a series of seismometers left on the lunar surface during Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16 and functioned between 1969 and 1977, indicates that de Gerlache scarp could have formed from an approximate magnitude-5.3 moonquake. The reason de Gerlache scarp is a crucial location is due to its proximity to one of the potential landing sites for the Artemis III mission, which is slated to be the first human landing of the Artemis program.
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ICYMI: INTRODUCING MORPHEUS-1 The world’s first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams according to Porphetic #AI Available for beta users Spring 2024.
Startup company Prophetic is set to unveil the “Halo” device to induce lucid dreaming, Fortune reports.
Year 2021 Biocomputing is the future for the biological singularity because we could control all inputs and outputs of our bodies even evolve them eventually.
A silicon device that can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells has advanced from prototype to standardized fabrication, meaning it can now be made in a consistent, reproducible way. As reported in Nature Protocols, this work, developed by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine, takes the device one step closer to potential use as a treatment for people with a variety of health concerns.
The technology, called tissue nanotransfection, is a non-invasive nanochip device that can reprogram tissue function by applying a harmless electric spark to deliver specific genes in a fraction of a second. In laboratory studies, the device successfully converted skin tissue into blood vessels to repair a badly injured leg. The technology is currently being used to reprogram tissue for different kinds of therapies, such as repairing brain damage caused by stroke or preventing and reversing nerve damage caused by diabetes.
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Year 2023 Super tcells found in people that defeated cancer face_with_colon_three Basically tcells naturally eat cancer this therapy could lead to boosting the percentage of success rates in battling cancer.
Detailed characterization of the recognition and activation characteristics of T cells from successful therapy against melanoma unveils that individual T cells recognize multiple tumor-associated antigens simultaneously; elicitation or engineering of such “multipronged” T cells may be an effective means of enhancing the efficacy of T cell cancer therapy.
“Our current schedule shows that we will start production towards the end of 2025,” he said during an earnings call. “But there’s…a tremendous amount of new revolutionary manufacturing technology here.”
That tech will initially be put to the test at Tesla’s Giga Texas plant in Austin. “We’ll follow that up with other locations around the world. Probably the factory we’ll build in Mexico will be second, and then we’ll be looking to identify a third location, perhaps by the end of this year or early next outside of North America,” Musk said.
“That will be a challenging production ramp,” he added. “We’ll be sleeping on the line practically. In fact, not practically. We will be.”
