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Jul 26, 2017

Scientists Discover The “Angel Particle” That Is Both Matter and Anti-Matter

Posted by in category: particle physics

Researchers succeed in an 80-year-old quest to find the elusive “angel particle”.

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Jul 26, 2017

A DNA app store is here, but proceed with caution

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it.

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Jul 26, 2017

DARPA reveal project to develop gene editing system

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

DARPA’s Safe Genes program plans to invest $65 million in seven teams that will collect data and develop gene editing tools to support bio-innovation and combat bio-threats such as invasive species.

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Jul 26, 2017

Robot stockboys to roam aisles at grocery store chain

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Is this the beginning of Skynet? A robot is being hired to help out shoppers at a St. Louis grocery store chain.

Tally will be working the aisles at Schnucks grocery stores looking for items that are out of stock and checking on prices, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

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Jul 26, 2017

Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

At Jef Boeke’s lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.

But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that works with chunks of man-made DNA.

Scientists have long been able to make specific changes in the DNA code. Now, they’re taking the more radical step of starting over, and building redesigned life forms from scratch. Boeke, a researcher at New York University, directs an international team of 11 labs on four continents working to “rewrite” the yeast genome, following a detailed plan they published in March.

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Jul 26, 2017

Google’s DeepMind creates AI with an ‘imagination’

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Google’s DeepMind has revealed a radical new research project designed to give AI’s an imagination.

The breakthrough means that systems will be able to think about their actions, and undertake ‘deliberate reasoning.’

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Jul 26, 2017

Scientists create colour-changing electronic SKIN

Posted by in categories: electronics, materials

Researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing have now developed a new type of electronic skin, with a colour change easily seen at just 0–10 per cent strain.

The material is made from graphene — a form of pure carbon that is 200 times stronger than steel.

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Jul 26, 2017

Defense department pours $65 million into making CRISPR safer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Berkeley scientists to develop safer and better CRISPR tools and apply them to medicine and mosquito gene drives.

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Jul 26, 2017

Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor for implementing DNNs

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, robotics/AI

By Marc Pollefeys, Director of Science, HoloLens

It is not an exaggeration to say that deep learning has taken the world of computer vision, and many other recognition tasks, by storm. Many of the most difficult recognition problems have seen gains over the past few years that are astonishing.

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Jul 26, 2017

New Study Suggests Previous Concerns about CRISPR Safety are Questionable

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

Gene editing aims to make precise changes to the target DNA whilst avoiding altering other parts of the DNA. The objective of this is to remove undesirable genetic traits and introduce desirable changes in both plants and animals. For example, it could be used to make crops more drought resistant, prevent or cure inherited genetic disorders or even treat age-related diseases.

As some of you may recall, back in May a study was published which claimed that the groundbreaking gene editing technique CRISPR caused thousands of off target and potentially dangerous mutations[1]. The authors of the paper called for regulators to investigate the safety of the technique, a move that could potentially set back research years if not decades.

This publication has been widely blasted by the research community due to serious questions about the study design being raised. One of the problems with this original paper was that it involved only three mice, this is an extremely poor number to make the kind of conclusions the paper did. There have been calls for the paper to be withdrawn and critical responses to the study.

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