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Feb 13, 2018

SpaceX to launch internet service test satellites soon

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

Elon Musk’s company has been working on launching satellite broadband for years. Its first test starts soon.

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Feb 13, 2018

These self-destructing electronics can turn your data to dust on command

Posted by in category: electronics

A radio signal tells the components to vaporize.

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Feb 13, 2018

Creating designer babies with CRISPR will soon be possible

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

Summary: Designer babies have recently become possible, as new techniques have gained credibility from serious scientists. Here’s how they can do it. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

On Feb 8, the AHA named “Fixing a gene mutation in human embryos” as among the “top advances in heart disease and stroke research” of the past year. They joined a chorus of voices heralding this as a research breakthrough.

The announcement brought attention to the fact that US scientists have recently demonstrated the plausibility of using gene editing to make designer babies.

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Feb 13, 2018

BioViva’s Liz Parrish reports promising progress on human gene therapy

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Human gene therapy trials are reporting promising results, according to Liz Parrish, the CEO of BioViva and patient zero in a test of gene therapy on her own body.


Liz Parrish says she’s ‘mind-blown’ by the success of gene therapy trials. She is the BioViva CEO who tested gene therapy on her own body.

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Feb 13, 2018

CWRU researchers block cancer’s spread to body with novel technique

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

Summary: In a medical first, scientists at CWRU have inhibited metastasis – the spread of cancer cells to another part of the body. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

In a first of its kind victory, researchers from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spread of cancer cells from one part of the body to another.

To accomplish this feat, the team relied on a novel epigenetic model of how cancer metastasizes. Epigenetics is the master program which turns genes on and off. The group included researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Cleveland Clinic. The researchers published their results in the journal Nature Medicine.

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Feb 13, 2018

ASU researchers reveal cancer-seeking nanorobots that starve tumors

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Cancer-seeking nanorobots that choke off tumors has just been announced by an international collaboration between Arizona State University and NCNST.


ASU researchers announce cancer-seeking nanorobots that successfully swims into a tumor and zaps it with a deadly payload.

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Feb 13, 2018

Longevity Olimpic games: Who will be champions in healthspan?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Right in moment when Olympic games 2018 had started, founders of DAYS longevity accelerator and one of renowned longevity organizations leader have decided on running a sort of Olimpic games in life science, aiming to identify the world champions in area that really matters for everyone (life extension).

W hat is problem, why so important issue have no visible signs of progress?

If you’re sort of between 40 and older male, 40% of you will never reach the age of 74. Why multiple brilliant inventions of diagnostic and cure technologies have no financing and adoption in clinics?

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Feb 13, 2018

Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize

Posted by in categories: engineering, particle physics, science

Zoom in close on the center of the picture above, and you can spot something you perhaps never thought you’d be able to see: a single atom. Here is a close-up if, you’re having trouble:

This strontium atom is emitting light after being excited by a laser, and it’s the winner of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) photography award. The EPSRC announced the winners of its fifth annual contest yesterday. Winning photographer David Nadlinger, graduate student at the University of Oxford, was just excited to be able to show off his research.

“It’s exciting to find a picture that resonates with other people that shows what I spend my days and nights working on,” Nadlinger told me. The best part, to him, was “the opportunity to excite people about my research, more than winning a competition.”

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Feb 13, 2018

Bioquark Inc. — Reaching The Finish Line Show — Ira S. Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, cryonics, disruptive technology, DNA, economics, futurism, genetics

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/reaching-the-finish-line/e/…oplay=true

Feb 13, 2018

SpaceX May Be Launching Its First Global Internet Satellites Next Week

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

A recent Falcon 9 launch reportedly contained two prototype global internet satellites, bringing SpaceX closer to establishing the Starlink global network.

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