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Mar 14, 2019
Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Humans may one day have the ability to regrow limbs after scientists at Harvard University uncovered the DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration.
Some animals can achieve extraordinary feats of repair, such as salamanders which grow back legs, or geckos which can shed their tails to escape predators and then form new ones in just two months.
Planarian worms, jellyfish, and sea anemones go even further, actually regenerating their entire bodies after being cut in half.
Mar 14, 2019
Deep-Sea Explorers Discover Wreck of WWII Aircraft Carrier USS Wasp
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: military
More than 70 years after it was torpedoed and sunk during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp has been discovered in the Coral Sea.
Wasp was spotted on the seabed, in 14,000 feet of water, by the research vessel (RV) Petrel, part of a research organization established by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, in January.
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And Vetek Association’s Mindmap of the 160 companies and 180 investors operating in the Israeli Longevity Industry Landscape.
Link to the Report: https://www.aginganalytics.com/longevity-in-israel
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Mar 14, 2019
This robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but it can lift 100 times its own weight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Mar 14, 2019
Gas heating ban for new homes from 2025
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: climatology, habitats, sustainability
Mar 14, 2019
Why Fermilab is Making A Neutrino Detector 800 Miles Long
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: particle physics
Mar 14, 2019
Scientists Have “Reversed Time” Inside A Quantum Computer, And The Implications Are Huge
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics
Time: it’s constantly running out and we never have enough of it. Some say it’s an illusion, some say it flies like an arrow. Well, this arrow of time is a big headache in physics. Why does time have a particular direction? And can such a direction be reversed?
A new study, published in Scientific Reports, is providing an important point of discussion on the subject. An international team of researchers has constructed a time-reversal program on a quantum computer, in an experiment that has huge implications for our understanding of quantum computing. Their approach also revealed something rather important: the time-reversal operation is so complex that it is extremely improbable, maybe impossible, for it to happen spontaneously in nature.
As far as laws of physics go, in many cases, there’s nothing to stop us going forward and backward in time. In certain quantum systems it is possible to create a time-reversal operation. Here, the team crafted a thought experiment based on a realistic scenario.
Mar 14, 2019
Mammoth Biosciences adds the final piece of the CRISPR diagnostics puzzle to its toolkit
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
With the announcement today that Mammoth Biosciences has received the exclusive license from the University of California, Berkeley to the new CRISPR protein Cas14, the company now has the last piece of its diagnostics toolkit in place.
Cas14 is a newly discovered protein from the lab of Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer in gene-editing research and a member of the first research team to identify and unlock the power of CRISPR technology.
Doudna and Mammoth Biosciences co-founder Lucas Harrington were part of the team of researchers to identify the new Cas14 protein, which can identify single-stranded DNA. The journal Science published their findings in October 2018.
