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Mar 14, 2017
Robots will create jobs for creative people, says company that tries to predict the future
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Robots will not replace every worker and their use in the workplace will lead to more jobs for people who are creative, according to a company that aims to predict the future.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will operate alongside humans to “take away the grind” from work, enabling people to be more imaginative and productive, experts from The Future Laboratory told a Microsoft Surface event.
“Robots will actually create jobs because humans have unique thinking,” Steve Tooze, Special Projects Editor at The Future Laboratory, said. “They will take away the grind that we don’t want to do. This will free us up to the imaginative stuff, the creative stuff.”
Mar 14, 2017
Gene Therapy to Treat the Diseases of Aging on NRK TV’s Trygdekontoret
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Mar 14, 2017
Chemical Dye Doubles Roundworm Lifespan, Could Extend Human Longevity
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
—In a statement, co-author Monica Driscoll of Rutgers University said that “the real goal of aging research should not be longevity at all, but rather a person’s health span — how long they can maintain an active, disease free, high quality of life.”–
NO. The real goal is extending lifespan. The lifespan of the organism was doubled, that is why people will like this when I share it.
Most of us try to avoid artificial coloring, but a dye that is used to detect plaques in Alzheimer’s brains is being tested for its seeming ability to counteract the effects of aging.
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Mar 13, 2017
Pain in the Neck: Using CRISPR to Prevent Tissue Damage and Neck Pain
Posted by Nancie Hunter in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
Bowles says. “We’re not changing what is in your genetic code. We’re altering what is expressed. Normally, cells do this themselves, but we are taking engineering control over these cells to tell them what to turn on and turn off.”
Now that researchers know they can do this, doctors will be able to modify the genes via an injection directly to the affected area and delay the degeneration of tissue. In the case of back pain, a patient may get a discectomy to remove part of a herniated disc to relieve the pain, but tissue near the spinal cord may continue to breakdown, leading to future pain. This method could stave off additional surgeries by stopping the tissue damage.
So far, the team has developed a virus that can deliver the gene therapy and has filed a patent on the system. They hope to proceed to human trials after collecting initial data, but Bowles believes it could be about 10 years before this method is used in patients.
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Mar 13, 2017
Scientists Made the Perfect Underwater Glue
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
Even the strongest artificial glues are completely useless when you try to apply them underwater, but somehow shellfish are able to hold fast to rocks to deter predators from trying to carry them away. Clearly, nature has already figured out how to make glues that work underwater, and now researchers may have discovered the secret.
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Mar 13, 2017
NASA Considers Magnetic Shield to Help Mars Grow Its Atmosphere
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space
Mar 13, 2017
‘Supersteel’ modeled on human bone is resistant to cracks
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: nanotechnology
Mar 13, 2017
Researchers develop new method to program nanoparticle organization in polymer thin films
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: chemistry, engineering, entertainment, nanotechnology
Controlling the organization of nanoparticles into patterns in ultrathin polymer films can be accomplished with entropy instead of chemistry, according to a discovery by Dr. Alamgir Karim, UA’s Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Professor of Polymer Engineering, and his student Dr. Ren Zhang. Polymer thin films are used in a variety of technological applications, for example paints, lubricants, and adhesives. Karim and Zhang have developed an original method—soft-confinement pattern-induced nanoparticle segregation (SCPINS)—to fabricate polymer nanocomposite thin films with well-controlled nanoparticle organization on a submicron scale. This new method uniquely controls the organization of any kind of nanoparticles into patterns in those films, which may be useful for applications involving sensors, nanowire circuitry or diffraction gratings, with proper subsequent processing steps like thermal or UV sintering, that are likely required but the self-organization into directed patterns.
This work, “Entropy-driven segregation of polymer -grafted nanoparticles under confinement,” has been published in the February 2017 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Intuitively, entropy is associated with disorder of a system. However, for colloidal matter, it has been shown that a system can experience transitions which increase both entropy and visible order. Inspired by this observation, Karim and Zhang investigated the role of entropy in directed organization of polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) in polymer thin films. By simply imprinting the blend films into patterned mesa-trench regions, nanoparticles are spontaneously enriched within mesas, forming patterned microdomain structures which coincide with the topographic pattern. This selective segregation of PGNPs is induced by entropic penalty due to the alteration of the grafted chain conformation when confined in ultrathin trench regions.
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