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Dec 5, 2018
How machine learning helps scientists track asteroids
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: robotics/AI, space
You never know how far your #SpaceApps solution will go! Gema knows that first hand. Hear about her project Deep Asteroid, which was a 2016 finalist, and how she used NASA data and the open-source tool Tensor Flow.
When NASA issued a worldwide challenge to help them better track the asteroids and comets that surround Earth, Gema Parreño answered the call. She used #TensorFlow, Google’s machine learning tool, to create a program called Deep Asteroid, which helps identify and track Near Earth Objects.
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Dec 5, 2018
Modeling the Microbiome
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: biological, health, mathematics, physics
What the study shows, the researchers said, is that the interactions between the bacterial populations are as significant to the host’s overall fitness as their presence — the microbiome’s influence cannot be solely attributed to the presence or absence of individual species. “In a sense,” said Jones, “the microbiome’s influence on the host is more than the sum of its parts.”
The gut microbiome — the world of microbes that inhabit the human intestinal tract — has captured the interest of scientists and clinicians for its critical role in health. However, parsing which of those microbes are responsible for effects on our wellbeing remains a mystery.
Taking us one step closer to solving this puzzle, UC Santa Barbara physicists Eric Jones and Jean Carlson have developed a mathematical approach to analyze and model interactions between gut bacteria in fruit flies. This method could lead to a more sophisticated understanding of the complex interactions between human gut microbes.
Dec 5, 2018
A New Connection between the Gut and the Brain
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: neuroscience
A surprising way that diet leads risks of stroke and cognitive impairment.
- By Jonathan D. Grinstein on December 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018
LEAF at the Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The Fourth Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing (EHA) was held in Brussels on November 8–10, 2018, and we had the opportunity to give talks about aging, advocacy, and engaging new audiences.
The EHA is a conference hosted every two years by Heales, and it sees like-minded people from the research and advocacy community come together to share knowledge and listen to talks from various researchers and other experts in the field. We were very pleased to be invited to give two presentations during the conference and share our knowledge and experience with the audience there.
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Dec 5, 2018
Researchers use a virus to speed up modern computers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, computing
In a groundbreaking study, researchers have successfully developed a method that could lead to unprecedented advances in computer speed and efficiency.
Dec 5, 2018
Bioquark — Electroceuticals — Real Bodies
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, futurism, genetics, innovation, neuroscience, science
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Dec 5, 2018
First baby born after deceased womb transplant
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
There have been 39 womb transplants using a live donor, including mothers donating their womb to their daughter, resulting in 11 babies.
But the 10 previous transplants from a dead donor have failed or resulted in miscarriage.
In this case, reported in The Lancet, the womb donor was a mother of three in her mid-40s who died from bleeding on the brain.
Dec 5, 2018
12th Jaipur Literature Festival: AI, cli-fi, genetics sessions on line-up
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: genetics, mapping, robotics/AI
https://paper.li/e-1437691924#/&h=AT3mdHzXuCejMgVQDYy6JiVw58…e-BeRlnE2g
“Our world is changing so fast… this year we have sessions on artificial intelligence, genetics and what the future holds for our planet. There is a new term now — cli-fi. We have a beautiful session on cli-fi, on what would happen if bees disappear.
”I feel at this moment in our country it is very very important to give impetus to empirical thinking,” the author of ”Paro: Dreams of Passion” said.
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Dec 5, 2018
The Transhuman Revolution: What it is and How to Prepare for its Arrival
Posted by Marcos Than Esponda in categories: biological, evolution, transhumanism
What would it be like to live through our own species’ evolution? The biological process of natural selection that gave rise to every species on Earth takes hundreds of generations to turn one species into another, but what if that process could be skipped entirely?
A look at the future of transhumanist technologies and what their evolution will mean for our society.
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