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Feb 14, 2018
India’s commitment to science begins to pay off
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: government, science
To achieve this, the government is hoping to find more scientists like Koul, who sees his role as an “opportunity to address bigger social as well as scientific challenges”.
This is a tall order, and there’s an elephant in the room. Government funding for Indian research and development has stagnated at around 0.85% of gross domestic product for more than a decade, compared with at least 3% invested by technologically advanced nations such as Denmark, Japan and Sweden.
A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.
Feb 14, 2018
Virgin Galactic partners with Microsoft Edge to create an immersive web experience for aspiring astronauts
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, space travel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvWrirMnZEs
Divya Kumar is on the Microsoft Edge team; Tom Westray is on the Virgin Galactic team.
We’ve all stared into the depths of the night sky, identified far off planets, and the Milky Way; but only fewer than 600 people have traveled above and beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into space. At Virgin Galactic, our rocket scientists, engineers and designers from around the world are united in creating something new and lasting that could change that – the world’s first commercial spaceflights for private astronauts and science research. We’re on the edge of a golden age of space exploration, which has the potential to transform our business and personal lives in ways we can only yet imagine.
Feb 13, 2018
Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain – The Future as We See It
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: bitcoin, food, neuroscience, security
Howdy folks.
I hope you’ll find today’s post as interesting as I do. It’s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital identities.
Over the last 12 months we’ve invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security and control. We’re pretty excited by what we’ve learned and by the new partnerships we’ve formed in the process. Today we’re taking the opportunity to share our thinking and direction with you. This blog is part of a series and follows on Peggy Johnson’s blog post announcing that Microsoft has joined the ID2020 initiative. If you haven’t already Peggy’s post, I would recommend reading it first.
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Feb 13, 2018
Yellowstone ERUPTION: Supervolcano under ‘STRAIN’ — experts find magma chamber pressure
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
YELLOWSTONE is “under strain” according to a group of seismologists who are monitoring the potentially catastrophic volcano, prompting fears an eruption is imminent.
Feb 13, 2018
SpaceX to launch internet service test satellites soon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
Elon Musk’s company has been working on launching satellite broadband for years. Its first test starts soon.
Feb 13, 2018
These self-destructing electronics can turn your data to dust on command
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
Feb 13, 2018
Creating designer babies with CRISPR will soon be possible
Posted by Brady Hartman 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.
Feb 13, 2018
BioViva’s Liz Parrish reports promising progress on human gene therapy
Posted by Brady Hartman 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.
Feb 13, 2018
CWRU researchers block cancer’s spread to body with novel technique
Posted by Brady Hartman 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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