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Feb 20, 2018
DNA designer bodies are no longer the stuff of science fiction
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Entrepreneur Juan Enriquez has outlined a future where we will be able to survive in extreme environments and even hack our memory thanks to DNA manipulation.
Feb 20, 2018
To become truly intelligent, machines need a sense of the unknown
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
Feb 20, 2018
Green Automotive Manufacturing
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, energy
Divergent has created a green 3D print automotive manufacturing platform that radically reduces materials, energy, and cost.
Feb 19, 2018
Electronic skin animates heartbeat on the back of your hand
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
A flexible e-skin containing a few hundred micro LEDs can display your vital signs or messages from your doctor.
Feb 19, 2018
AHA names 2017’s top advances in heart disease and stroke research
Posted by Brady Hartman in category: biotech/medical
The AHA names the top 10 heart disease and stroke research advances of 2017, including new drugs, guidelines, research, and a gene therapy.
Feb 19, 2018
Breakthroughs in Targeted Cancer Therapies to Fight Tumors
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
New targeted cancer therapies have emerged to fight tumors, and scientists have much more in the pipeline.
Summary: New targeted cancer therapies have been highlighted this month as emerging technologies to fight tumors, and scientists have much more in the pipeline. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Targeted cancer therapies – the most famous of which are immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy – are the current focus of excitement in cancer treatment. New therapies and developments in the immunotherapy field prompted the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to update their guidance on targeted cancer therapies a little over a week ago. As the NCI says.
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Feb 19, 2018
Breakthrough cancer immunotherapy treatments to be ‘curative’ by 2025 says prominent research head
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Cancer immunotherapy treatments and other approaches to cure nearly all cancers within 8 years says Dr. Gilliland, a prominent cancer research head. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D. is the President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and in an opinion piece published at the beginning of this month, writes.
“I’ve gone on record to say that by 2025, cancer researchers will have developed curative therapeutic approaches for most if not all cancers.”
Feb 19, 2018
Team paves the way for immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumors
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Team paves the way for cancer immunotherapy demonstrating a novel technique that attacked tumors and inhibited cancers from spreading.
Summary: Team paves the way for cancer immunotherapy with a novel technique that attacked tumors and inhibited cancers from spreading. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
While cancer immunotherapy is a powerful treatment for some types of tumors, up until now, it hasn’t worked well on colon cancer.
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Feb 19, 2018
Supercomputer on a fingernail, artificial synapse ushers in new AI revolution
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF
There is nothing on Earth like the human brain, even today’s AI doesn’t come close, but now researchers have created an Artificial Synapse that’s 200 million times faster than a human synapse, and one day it will revolutionise AI and computing.
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