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Apr 23, 2019

Synthetic molecule shows promise as multiple sclerosis treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

In multiple sclerosis, the body’s immune system attacks and damages myelin, which is the insulating layer on nerves in the spinal cord, brain and optic nerve. This causes the nerves to short-circuit and cease functioning properly. In “a potential game-changer,” scientists have now demonstrated that a synthetic molecule can restore compromised myelin.

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Apr 23, 2019

Falsifiability and physics

Posted by in category: physics

Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?

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Apr 23, 2019

A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful with who’s generating your cryptocurrency keys.

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Apr 23, 2019

Feeble humans prove no match for OpenAI’s Dota 2 gods

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The AI won 7,215 matches against humans, losing only 42 in the process.

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Apr 23, 2019

Elon Musk says Neuralink joining humans with computers ‘coming soon’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Elon Musk believes humans must link up with machines in order to fight the inevitable onslaught of artificial intelligence.

In a recent tweet, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said technology from his latest company, Neuralink, will be ‘coming soon.’

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Apr 23, 2019

Eye implant improves vision in people with age-related blindness

Posted by in category: life extension

A patch of cells implanted at the back of the eye has stabilised and in some cases improved the vision of four people with dry age-related macular degeneration.

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Apr 23, 2019

Old Cells Reprogrammed into MSCs Are Rejuvenated

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been a topic of great interest in the last decade or so due to their ability to improve tissue regeneration merely by their presence and the secreted signals they give out.

Adult MSCs have traditionally been used for regenerative medicine with hit-and-miss results, depending on the quality and age of the harvested MSCs. It has been discovered in recent years that the efficacy of these cells greatly depends on how damaged by aging they are, which explains why MSC therapy sometimes works very well in one person but not so much in another.

However, what about aged cells that are reprogrammed back to pluripotency then guided into becoming mesenchymal stem cells through cellular reprogramming?

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Apr 23, 2019

Chinese launch startup ‘Space Transportation’ today carried out a test flight of a reusable winged suborbital tech demonstrator rocket with a mass of 3,700 kg

Posted by in category: transportation

Named Jiageng-1, it was jointly developed with Xiamen University. https:// CoR1p2MLDw …

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Apr 23, 2019

The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and The Omega Point Cosmology — A New Book That Makes You Question The Nature of Reality but Provides You with Surprising Answers | Press Release

Posted by in categories: cosmology, evolution, neuroscience, physics

Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction book The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and The Omega Point Cosmology by Alex M. Vikoulov as a Kindle ebook (Press Release, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 22, 2019 01.00 PM PST)

The Science and Philosophy of Information book series is adapted for general audience and based on the previously published grand volume titled The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution” by digital philosopher Alex Vikoulov on the ultimate nature of reality, consciousness, the physics of time, and philosophy of mind. In this book one of the series, the author addresses some of the most flaming questions in science and philosophy: Where do we come from? What are the origins of us? What is our role in the grand scheme of things?

# 1 Hot New Release” in Amazon charts in Cosmology and Evolution, the book starts with a story that happened almost exactly 400 years ago that has had a tremendous “butterfly” effect on us modern humans.

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Apr 23, 2019

Artificial Intelligence could steer hypersonic vehicles

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has announced that it has set up an academic research coalition to help create artificially intelligent aerospace systems to control hypersonic missiles and other complicated vehicles in challenging environments. Called Autonomy New Mexico (NM), the organization consists of numerous US universities and aims at making hypersonic craft capable of autonomously controlling their own flight.

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