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Jul 21, 2018

Online portal of thousands of clinical trials could aid disease research

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, policy

Vivli, which spun out of a policy think tank at Harvard University–affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is part of a push to encourage drug developers to share trial data—even negative results, findings that show a treatment has no benefit. Companies seeking U.S. regulatory approval for a drug, as well as investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health, must post limited, summary results on ClinicalTrials.gov. But many researchers and policy analysts believe sharing detailed raw data on individual patients, stripped of identifying information, would be valuable. Researchers could confirm that a drug works, look for side effects, or explore new questions.


Vivli aims to ease sharing of anonymized clinical studies.

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Jul 20, 2018

This Deadly Nut Oil Is Poised to Take on Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

They’re so toxic they can rip your skin apart on contact. But that virulence is what makes them perfect candidates for a new wave of antibiotics.

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Jul 20, 2018

World’s fastest man-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics

Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.

At more than 60 billion revolutions per minute, this machine is more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill.

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Jul 20, 2018

Man’s first journey to the moon

Posted by in category: space travel

49 years ago today man walked on the moon for the first time.

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Jul 20, 2018

Jupiter now has 79 Moons!

Posted by in category: space

Latest News from Space.com, Scientists have discovered 12 previously unknown moons orbiting Jupiter, and one of them is a real oddball.

While hunting for the proposed Planet Nine, a massive planet that some believe could lie beyond Pluto, a team of scientists, led by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science, found the 12 moons orbiting Jupiter. With this discovery, Jupiter now has a staggering 79 known orbiting moons €” 67 was its previous count, more than any other planet in the solar system.

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Jul 20, 2018

New video from Undoing Aging 2018: Doug Ethell, Founder and CEO of Leucadia Therapeutics, presenting: Alzheimer’s Disease Begins as a Fixable Plumbing Problem

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

http://undoing-aging.org/videos/doug-ethell-presenting-at-undoing-aging-2018

Btw: the facebook event page for Undoing Aging 2019 is already up fb.com/events/2044104465916196/

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Jul 20, 2018

Researchers prove the arrow of time is irrelevant to quantum computers

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

It turns out that our limited understanding of time is born out of faulty observations and limited perspective. Luckily, quantum computers are on the way.

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Jul 20, 2018

How U.S. Retail Giant Kroger Is Using AI And Robots To Prepare For The 4th Industrial Revolution

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Traditional grocery retailers are trying to develop omnichannel approaches to stay viable for the 4th industrial revolution. Kroger, one of America’s largest grocers, is making a significant commitment to creating the grocery experience of the future via today’s latest technology.

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Jul 20, 2018

Scientists discover structure within the Sun’s atmosphere

Posted by in categories: information science, space

While scientists have been learning more and more about our solar system and the way things work, many of our Sun’s mechanics still remain a mystery. In advance of the launch of the Parker Solar Probe, which will make contact with the Sun’s outer atmosphere, however, scientists are foreshadowing what the spacecraft might see with new discoveries. In a paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists detected structures within the Sun’s corona, thanks to advanced image processing techniques and algorithms.

The question that this group of scientists, led by Craig DeForest from the Southwest Research Institute’s branch in Boulder, Colorado, was trying to answer was in regard to the source of solar wind. “In deep space, the solar wind is turbulent and gusty,” said DeForest in a release. “But how did it get that way? Did it leave the Sun smooth, and become turbulent as it crossed the solar system, or are the gusts telling us about the Sun itself?”

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Jul 20, 2018

Most of AI’s Business Uses Will Be in Two Areas

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Supply chain and sales and marketing are the first big opportunities.

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