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| May 7, 2026 | Происхождение жизни: Холмс, как стартовала первая метаболическая цепочка? — Элементарно, Ватсон… | Вынесенный в заголовок вопрос является одним из важнейших в проблеме происхождения жизни (второй — как возникла репликация). В это статье мы постараемся подобраться к ответу на него.
Логично предположить, что поиски имеет смысл сосредоточит... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Berkeley Lab’s Jennifer Doudna Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation | Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a professor at UC Berkeley, has received the National Meda... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Наноматериалы и нанотехнологии. Часть I | Компания Bayer (Германия 2007) запустила реактор мощностью 200 т/год многостенных углеродных трубок, но им пришлось ограничить производство. Многостенные трубки не нашли ожидаемого сбыта, они делались из графита, а не из графена, одного ато... |
| Oct 6, 2023 | The next frontier in biomedicine: AI models of the human immune system | If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really know about how the human immune system works. Despite the remarkable success in development of vaccines to prevent severe disease from SARS-CoV-2, it remains unclea... |
| Sep 3, 2023 | A mysterious Arctic shark that can live for 500 years got lost and ended up swimming in the balmy waters of the Caribbean, scientists say | A Greenland shark picture taken at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut, 2007. Hemming1952/Wikimedia Commons
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| Apr 19, 2023 | В мозге человека обнаружили сигнал нового типа | Учёные недавно обнаружили уникальную форму обмена сообщениями между клетками в человеческом мозге, которую не встречали ранее. Исследование с описанием открытия было опубликовано в журнале Science.
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| Apr 5, 2023 | Tornadoes and climate change: How a warming world may affect tornado season | More than 1,000 tornadoes occur nationwide in an average year, with April, May and June typically the peak months for twisters.
While climate change is known to make some extreme weather conditions more frequent and more severe, current sci... |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Как подводный кабель Google помогает обнаруживать цунами и землетрясения | Оказывается, сеть подводных кабелей, связывающих весь мир Интернетом, может быть использована для отслеживания землетрясений и цунами. Во время теста в 2020 году один из волоконно-оптических кабелей Google смог успешно улавливать все близле... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Developing a Toolkit to Assess Efficacy of Ebola Vaccines and Therapeutics | Image
Caption Scientist processing Ebola virus disease samples at Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea as part of the EVIDENT project. (Credit: EVIDENT)
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| Aug 29, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition: Should You Become An Ultra-Flexitarian? | 5 Mins Read
By: Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL and the Natural History Museum of Denmark
There’s no denying that what we eat is intrinsically linked to the climate crisis. Is the an Ultra-Flexitarian diet the solution t... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Исследования: как мозг строит гипотезы об окружающем мире и подгоняет ощущения под гипотезы | Некоторые нейробиологи объясняют восприятие человека теорией «контролируемых галлюцинаций». Эта теория предполагает, что восприятие, память, контроль движений и другие функции мозга зависят не от сенсорной информации, а скорее от сравнения ... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Novo Nordisk workers in Korea protest after breakdown in salary and perks negotiations — report | The recent dismissal of several Chinese-American biomedical scientists believed to have violated the rules on disclosure — or suspected of being scientific spies for China — has Elias Zerhouni concerned about the future of biotech and scien... |
| May 19, 2022 | Can We Fix Ovarian Aging? Here Is One Startup Up For The Task! | Concept of a healthy female reproductive system. getty |
| May 13, 2022 | Как я ограничил свое экранное время и поборол бессонницу | Или как организация задач, повседневные привычки и абсолютная темнота помогли мне вновь спать, как сурку.
15 января 2019 года на часах 2 часа ночи — я не могу уснуть. Мне не приятно сама компания с собой, я только что ушел из стартапа, набр... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Парадокс Ферми – вовсе не парадокс, а вопрос; в чём он состоит, и как его решать (часть 4) | Предыдущая часть
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| Mar 9, 2022 | Researchers turn to crowdsourcing for better YouTube recommendations | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In 2019, an analysis by ex-Google computer scient... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Researchers turn to crowdsourcing for better YouTube recommendations | Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit live now! Watch here.
In 2019, an analysis by ex-Google computer scientist, Guillaume Chaslot, found that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm overwhelmingly recommended Russia To... |
| Feb 12, 2022 | Is Buying Local Always The Most Sustainable Option? | 7
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With the climate crisis climbing to the top of the global agenda, more people are beginning to take notice of the connection between our consumption choices and the carbon footprint it leaves behind. While some questi... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Is Hemp The Answer To Our Global Deforestation Crisis? | 190
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The widespread cultivation of industrial hemp might hold the key to save the planet, fight pollution and efficiently tackle our worldwide climate crisis. So why isn’t it?
According to a 2019 analysis published in ... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | New Study Finds Plant-Based Diets Can Reduce Carbon Emissions by 61% | 3 Mins Read
Recent research has concluded that high-income countries adopting plant-based diets could help to alleviate climate change. Findings came through a multinational study that identified a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and ... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | AI Weekly: Watson Health and semi-autonomous driving failures show the dangers of overpromising AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This week in AI, reality came knocking — both for... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | AI Weekly: Watson Health and semi-autonomous driving failures show the dangers of overpromising AI | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
This week in AI, reality came knocking — both for AI health tech and semi-autonomous driving systems. IBM agreed to s... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | Capgemini : Community policing officer – Requesting backup! | Highlights
Too much information and infobesity threaten the effectiveness of community policing officers.
An Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) can filter information based on relevance.
IVAs can monitor behavior and stress in order to del... |
| Dec 28, 2021 | By the Numbers: The Health and Environmental Benefits of Participating in Veganuary | 1
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What happens when you go vegan for a month? Here are the benefits of a Veganuary commitment on your health and the planet.
More than 500,000 people took part in Veganuary in 2021—and that number could double this year.... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Чтобы учиться быстрее, мозг постоянно ломает свою ДНК | Двухнитевые разрывы ДНК — это опасное генетическое повреждение, но они очень важны в обычных клеточных процессах
Мозг реагирует на угрозы быстро. Он не только формирует новые нейронные связи, но и разрывает ДНК своих клеток, а затем воссозд... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | Blue Economy in Thailand: A Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats | By Kitchie Hermoso
Bang Mit is well known in his village in the southern part of Thailand for his generosity. One day, he grilled his freshest catch from the waters and gave it away to everyone who wanted to eat fish. For the past twenty-fi... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | The ocean is a $100tln market opportunity | Tony Chen is co-founder and CEO of Manolin, a software and data analytics company that builds disease-detection models for aquaculture, based in Denver, Colorado.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not ... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | The jet stream has started a shift north, which could wreak havoc on weather in the US and Europe | The German village of Insul in Rhineland was largely destroyed after rainfall caused devastating flooding in July.
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The polar jet stream is a band of wind that separates cold Arctic air from warme... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Veganic Farming May Be The Agricultural Philosophy The World Needs | 1.2K
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With growing climate concerns, there is a constant need to change the way land is used for farming and other agricultural practices. Veganic farming, a mostly unknown yet vital new way of stewarding the Earth’s ... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | What’s Working and What Isn’t in Researching Influence Operations? | The world first learned about Russian attempts to manipulate the information environment in 2013. Staff hired by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) posed as Americans online posting divisive comments to social media. Continued activities du... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Impossible Foods Does The Possible: Vegan Chicken Nuggets Out to Save the World | 7 Mins Read
Your grandchildren won’t know what “real” chicken nuggets taste like. And 2021 will be the year that certainty was cemented, thanks in part to Impossible Foods and its vegan chicken nuggets.
Impossible Foods, best known for its ... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Как в России пытаются воскресить мамонта | Российские ученые, отец и сын, на севере Сибири уже несколько десятков лет пытаются возродить пастбища ледникового периода. В идеале — с выращенными в лаборатории шерстистыми мамонтами (происходящими от слонов).
У этого процесса есть множес... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Verisk Analytics : AER Leads Study to Reveal Extreme Winter Weather Is Related to Arctic Change | LEXINGTON, MASS., Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study shows that the frequency of polar vortex disruptions that is most favorable for extreme winter weather in the United States is increasing, and that Arctic change is likely con... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Achilles Therapeutics : Announces Grant of US and European Patents | LONDON, Aug. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Achilles Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: ACHL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing precision T cell therapies to treat solid tumors, today announced that US patent US 11,098,121 and Eur... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | US lawmakers want information on chemical toxic to salmon | More than a dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to the heads of NOAA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife on Thursday, 19 August, asking them to investigate the effect a toxic chemical has on salmon species.
Led by U.S. R... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | While figuring out post-CRL future for roxadustat, FibroGen celebrates Europe OK with Astellas | The FDA may not be ready to approve FibroGen’s roxadustat before it sees another clinical trial, but the European Commission is swinging its doors wide open.
The oral HIF-PH inhibitor known as roxadustat will now be bra... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | В 2014 году студентам МТИ бесплатно раздали по $100 в биткоинах. Вот чем закончился эксперимент | Второкурсник Джереми изучал информатику и электротехнику и решил, что хочет выдать каждому студенту-старшекурснику Массачусетского технологического института биткоины на сумму в $100.
7 месяцев спустя он собрал полмиллиона долларов от выпус... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Insilico finds a new partner for AI drug discovery; EU launches Illumina probe after Grail merger close | Hot off a $255 million megaround, Chinese AI startup Insilico Medicine has found its latest partner.
Insilico is joining hands with Shanghai-based BioNova Pharmaceuticals to jointly develop small molecule inhibitor... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Insilico finds a new partner for AI drug discovery; EU launches Illumina probe after Grail merger close | MIT star researcher and CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang put a new paper out Thursday in Science detailing how a new technology could alter a field that’s already proven game-changing throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Zhang and his team have devel... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Covid-19 roundup: US investigating more myocarditis cases linked to Moderna vaccine; UK approves Regeneron mAb | The Washington Post reported late last night that CDC and FDA officials are investigating where there might be a higher risk of myocarditis, a type of heart condition, in younger adults than previously believed for those ... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Insilico finds a new partner for AI drug discovery; EU launches Illumina probe after Grail merger close | The ongoing saga surrounding controversial preterm birth drug Makena will continue as the FDA approved a hearing on whether Covis Pharma should withdraw the medicine after it failed a confirmatory study, the drugmaker announced Thursday.
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| Aug 20, 2021 | Novavax grabs another CFO while Pat Cotroneo retires from FibroGen; Eli Lilly reassembles key staff after biomedicines unit split | Jim Kelly
→ The perennial Charlie Brown of vaccine development, Novavax is grappling with Lucy’s knack for pulling the football away once again, this time with its Covid-19 vaccine as the FDA pushed back another bid for an EUA... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | How A New Mission To Phobos Could Rewrite The History Of Mars | Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to ... [+] study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and after collecting material from P... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | A natural pandemic has been terrible. A synthetic one would be even worse | In 1988, as Russian scientist Nikolai Ustinov worked in the VECTOR lab, part of a Russian program to develop viral weapons, he accidentally infected himself with the Marburg virus, a deadly pathogen related to Ebola. He died weeks later. Du... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Fate's closely watched stem cell-derived NK program raises red flag over durability of response | At the cutting edge of oncology research, biotechs like Fate Therapeutics are looking for ways to craft next-gen cell therapies without relying on patients’ own cells. An early peek at the company’s clinical data looks ... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Scientific, moral imperatives underlie including rare disorders in the ARPA-H mandate | The response to Covid-19 by the biomedical research community in the U.S. and around the globe has been spectacular in both speed and impact. It is time to respond with the same sense of urgency to every disease. Toward that end, President ... |
| Aug 15, 2021 | To find evidence of life on Mars, we should look to its moon Phobos | An image of Phobos from March 23, 2008, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
In the search for evidence that there was once life on Mars... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | To protect from lab leaks, we need ‘banal’ safety rules, not anti-terrorism measures | “How did it start?” is among the many questions raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. Answering it may help prevent future pandemics.
The escape of SARS-CoV-2 from a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, continues to circulate as a viable and pop... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Израильские ученые нашли способ продлить жизнь | Исследование ученых, опубликованное в журнале Science, доказало, что регулирование активности белка VEGF прямо сказывается на продолжительности жизни млекопитающих.
Работа этого белка отвечает за функционирование кровеносных сосудов, старен... |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Вложить $27 трлн и перейти на «зелёную» энергетику: как бизнес и государства пытаются остановить глобальное потепление Статьи редакции | И сколько на возобновляемой энергии зарабатывают частные компании.
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| Aug 5, 2021 | Lightning strikes kill at least 16 at a wedding party in Bangladesh | Police and relatives escort the body of a victim of the fatal lightning strikes that killed 16 on Wednesday. AFP via Getty Image
Tragedy struck a wedding party in Bangladesh when lightning killed at least 16 people.
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| Aug 3, 2021 | Not Just the Sea: Over 1,550 Wildlife Species Have Eaten Plastic Waste, Study Finds | 3 Mins Read
Plastic waste is so widespread that a record number of animals are now ingesting it. In a new study, researchers found that 1,557 wildlife species globally have now eaten littered plastic in the environment. While plastic ingest... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | For many, the belated realization that Covid will be ‘a long war’ sparks anger and denial | In May, when the CDC said fully vaccinated people could ditch masks and social distancing, it seemed to signal a return to normalcy. But epidemiologists cautioned at the time that the move wasn’t likely to be permanent, and shouldn’t be int... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | Tech leaders can be the secret weapon for supercharging ESG goals | Jeff Sternberg Contributor
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| Jul 30, 2021 | What Delta has changed in the Covid pandemic — and what it hasn’t | In some respects, the Delta variant has changed everything in the Covid-19 pandemic. In others, the same rules still apply.
Before the variant of SARS-CoV-2 began spreading rapidly in the United States, Covid-19 vaccines were drastically cu... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | Is there systemic bias in the classroom? | The events of this last year have not only kept us inside and isolated, but they have also forced us to reckon with how our biases can perpetuate disadvantage among historically marginalized populations. West Indian cricketer Michael Holdin... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | The first challenge for ARPA-H should be electronic health record migration | Most new, high-profile initiatives start with something splashy. President Biden’s proposed transformative biomedical agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), should start with something mundane: revamping the now-... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Мифы о вакцинации | Извлечение камня глупости. Иероним Босх
Вакцинация - одно из самых важных достижений медицины, а недоверие к вакцинации включено ВОЗ в список десяти основных проблем здравоохранения. После прочтения очередных комментариев о вакцинации от co... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | NASA’s InSight Mars lander just gave scientists an unprecedented look at the guts of the red planet. Here’s how they compare to Earth’s. | An artist’s illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s InSight lander just gave scientists a peek at the make-up of Mars’s core, crust, and mantle.
A trio of new studies reveal how the interior structure of Mars com... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Microsoft : Lecture series aims to help spur dialogue around race and technology | In November, NYU media professor Charlton McIlwain joined fellow scholars Safiya Noble, Ruha Benjamin, and André Brock for a virtual discussion on anti-Blackness and technology hosted by the University of California Santa Barbara. The conve... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonize space. Here are the 6 biggest problems with their plans, from thinning bones to toxic plants on Mars. | Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos both have grand plans to colonize space. Samantha Lee/Business Insider
The space race between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is heating up.
Both billionaires have grand – but very different – plans to colonize space.
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| Jul 21, 2021 | In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology | When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1978, the geneticist had an ambitious plan for the soft-eyed, hamster-sized animals. He wanted to domesticate them to live in a lab anywhere on... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Billionaire Space Race: The Ultimate Symbol Of Capitalism’s Flawed Obsession With Growth | wp_booster error:
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| Jul 15, 2021 | Plastic Emissions To Reach Irreversible ‘Tipping Point’ Soon, Scientists Warn | 3 Mins Read
Emissions from plastic pollution could lead to irreversible effects on our planet, a new study has warned. Examining the global plastic threat, scientists say we are already on the way to reaching this “tipping point” on a world... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Fish-Free Subs Without a Catch: Free Plant-Based Subs to Challenge Subway at the Good Catch® OurWay Food Van | LONDON, July 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Plant-based seafood brand Good Catch announces the OurWay food van — treating hungry sandwich lovers to free fish-free subs in a bid to motivate consumers to encourage Subway to go fish-free for good.
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| Jul 15, 2021 | By creating mouse eggs entirely from scratch, researchers raise the prospect of a futuristic fertility treatment | The tiny clump of mouse cells didn’t look like an ovary. For one thing, it was much smaller, microscopic. And instead of being attached to a uterus it was floating in a test tube. And yet, from within the pocket of cells, oocytes began to f... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits | Dan Blaustein-Rejto is director of food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, US. The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily repres... |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Climate change has already started reshaping the economy and it’s only going to get worse | Roberto Cedomio prepares his bed at a cooling shelter run by the Salvation Army at the Seattle Center during a heat wave hitting the Pacific Northwest, Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Seattle. AP Photo/John Froschauer
Summer 2021 is a climate cri... |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Training AI: Reward is not enough | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jul 10, 2021 | Training AI: Reward is not enough | Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today.
This post was written for TechTalks by Herbert Roitblat, the author of Algorithms Are Not Enough: How to Create Artificial... |
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| Jul 2, 2021 | Regeneron’s George Yancopoulos talks CRISPR, obesity drugs, and the next generation of Covid antibody cocktails | The discovery of a rare genetic mutation that seems to protect certain people from becoming obese may one day lead to drugs that can help people lose weight or prevent other complications like diabetes and heart disease, said Regeneron Phar... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Telehealth vendors are doubling down on mental health offerings—here’s why they should focus on social health factors | The news: Telehealth companies Hims & Hers, a D2C multispecialty telehealth company, and AbleTo, a virtual mental health company that personalizes treatment using data and analytics, both announced they’ll be expanding their mental heal... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Fauci says he’s not going to waste his time with an antibody test, and neither should you | Dr. Anthony Fauci says ‘you don’t have to all individually get a blood test’ to know when vaccine protection is waning. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images / Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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| Jun 30, 2021 | Fauci says he's not going to waste his time with an antibody test, and neither should you | Dr. Anthony Fauci says "you don't have to all individually get a blood test" to know when vaccine protection is waning.
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| Jun 30, 2021 | Fauci says he's not going to waste his time with an antibody test and neither should you | Dr. Anthony Fauci says "you don't have to all individually get a blood test" to know when vaccine protection is waning. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images / Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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| Jun 25, 2021 | For now, stem cells for Covid-19 are mostly a shot in the dark | The uncertainty over how to effectively treat Covid-19 is proving to be an opportunity for people interested in stem cells.
It is such a hot area that there are dozens of clinical trials underway testing different kinds of stem cells and ot... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Next steps for wastewater testing to help end this pandemic — and prevent the next one | Essential data can be found in the most unexpected places, including the wastewater flowing freely through sewers.
During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, cities began tapping their wastewater to look for evidence of SARS-CoV-2, t... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | A human ancestor previously unknown to science lived alongside ancient humans and Neanderthals – and they all interbred | The partial skull and jaw bone of a newly discovered human ancestor named Nesher Ramla homo. Avi Levin and Ilan Theiler/Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Scientists uncovered a new species of human ancestor named the Nesher R... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | 3D bioprinting can help end organ transplant waitlists — if the FDA stops delaying | Right now, more than 100,000 Americans are waiting for organ transplants. Due to a lack of available kidneys, livers, hearts, and lungs, at least 17 of them die each day.
Using 3D bioprinting to create new organs — and personalize them for ... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Heat wave worsens across the American West, raising concerns of power outages and wildfires | An extreme heat wave gripping the western U.S. will intensify and spread this week, creating dangerous conditions amid the worst drought in modern history.
More than 40 million people in the U.S. are forecast to experience triple-digit temp... |
| Jun 11, 2021 | We Finally Know What Was Sold in Wuhan’s Markets Before the Pandemic | At least 47,000 wild animals were illegally sold in markets across Wuhan before the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found, adding fuel to the fierce debate over the origins of the pandemic.
The study filled important gaps in our knowledge about ... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | 4 coronavirus variants can make people sicker or spread faster, including the Delta variant first found in India. Here’s what variants are, and why experts are so concerned about them. | A health worker takes a swab from a man’s nose through a glass shield (for safety) in New Delhi, India, on August 8, 2020. Rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 are being provided by the Indian government for free. Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Light... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | First cells reprogrammed to make synthetic polymers | First cells reprogrammed to make synthetic polymers
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Cells, using a synthetic genome, can make polymers from artificial building blocks for the first time, and the bacteria are also resistant to viral infections.
Scientists have d... |
| Jun 6, 2021 | Astronomers get closest look yet at epic explosion in our ‘cosmic backyard’ | Artist’s impression of a relativistic jet of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), breaking out of a collapsing star, and emitting very-high-energy photons. DESY, Science Communication Lab
When you think of the most dramatic events in the universe, you ... |
| May 29, 2021 | Adversarial attacks in machine learning: What they are and how to stop them | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Adversarial machine learning, a technique that at... |
| May 29, 2021 | Adversarial attacks in machine learning: What they are and how to stop them | Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.
Adversarial machine learning, a technique that attempts to fool models with deceptive data, is a growing threat in the AI and machine learning research community. The m... |
| May 28, 2021 | Managing Green and Sustainable Energy Solutions During a Data-Intense Century | May 28, 2021 6 min read
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| May 28, 2021 | Learning from previous research: how to protect and train the healthcare workforce for pandemic response and effective vaccination rollout | This blog entry is in a series that highlights insights from research for development policies and practice, supported by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP).
The COVID-19 pandemic tests the resilience of primary health care systems and ... |
| May 27, 2021 | One chart shows how COVID-19 vaccines stack up against 4 worrisome variants, including the one found in India | Medical workers administer COVID-19 vaccines in Mumbai, India, April 13, 2021. Rajanish Kakade/AP
Some coronavirus variants are more transmissible and can partially evade vaccine-induced antibodies.
But COVID-19 vaccines appear to be effect... |
| May 27, 2021 | Between a rock and a farm raise | Something I think that gets lost in the conversation around robotics is just how many different tasks can — and at some point will — be automated. Here I’m talking specifically about agtech. We’ve seen a ton of agricultural robotics come ac... |
| May 21, 2021 | To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences | President Biden’s pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 is an admirable and ambitious undertaking. It’s nearly double the goal set by President Obama in 2015. And it establishes the United States as a world leader in b... |
| May 19, 2021 | Discovery Of A Novel Monoclonal Antibody That Neutralizes A Broad Range Of Coronaviruses | B6 binding to the MERS-CoV-2 spikeSauer et al |
| May 19, 2021 | Beyond a symbolic gesture: What’s needed to turn the IP waiver into Covid-19 vaccines | The Biden administration’s announcement to support an intellectual property (IP) waiver for Covid-19 vaccines was a monumental step toward improving the access to them in low- and middle-income countries. But without further action, it will... |
| May 19, 2021 | How the Covid pandemic ends: Scientists look to the past to see the future | We’re approaching the year-and-a-half mark of the globe’s collective experience with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Covid-19 pandemic it has triggered. At this point, it’s fair to assume people the world over are asking themselves the same tw... |