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Feb 12, 2018

A new DNA test will look for 190 diseases in your newborn’s genetic code

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

But not all parents may want to know the results.

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Feb 12, 2018

How the United States Plans to Reclaim Its Supercomputer Dominance

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, supercomputing

It’s a tight race between the U.S. and China for who will build the next supercomputer, set to be as powerful as the human brain.

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Feb 12, 2018

Penn State University

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Because of how much it impairs the ability to breathe, a seemingly simple injury—a broken rib—is the second leading cause of trauma deaths. A team of Penn State surgeons and a biomedical engineer have invented a better way to help broken ribs heal.

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Feb 12, 2018

The libraries of the future will be made of DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

There are 6,000 tweets sent a second. In the time you have read this sentence, 42,000 tweets will have been sent. At an average of 34 characters per tweet that’s 1,428,000 characters.

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Feb 12, 2018

Edible QR Codes Could Deliver Exactly What Your Body Needs to Heal

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, mobile phones

A new study suggests that printing drugs on a QR code that patients can scan with their phones could pave the way for personalized medicine.

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Feb 12, 2018

How Swarm Intelligence Is Making Simple Tech Much Smarter

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, food, robotics/AI

As a group, simple creatures following simple rules can display a surprising amount of complexity, efficiency, and even creativity. Known as swarm intelligence, this trait is found throughout nature, but researchers have recently begun using it to transform various fields such as robotics, data mining, medicine, and blockchains.

Ants, for example, can only perform a limited range of functions, but an ant colony can build bridges, create superhighways of food and information, wage war, and enslave other ant species—all of which are beyond the comprehension of any single ant. Likewise, schools of fish, flocks of birds, beehives, and other species exhibit behavior indicative of planning by a higher intelligence that doesn’t actually exist.

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Feb 12, 2018

Better memory: a 4-minute guide

Posted by in category: futurism

Click on photo to start video.

How to improve your memory in 4 minutes.

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Feb 12, 2018

This new company wants to sequence your genome and let you share it on a blockchain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

Rewriting Life

This new company wants to sequence your genome and let you share it on a blockchain.

People will be able to earn cryptocurrency in exchange for letting pharma companies use their data.

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Feb 12, 2018

Could woodpeckers teach the NFL how to prevent brain injuries?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The head-banging birds seem healthy, but deposits in their brain could signify damage.

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Feb 12, 2018

Start to finish tooth reconstruction

Posted by in category: futurism

Damaged or chipped teeth can be reconstructed.

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