March 2018 – Page 42 – Lifeboat News: The Blog

After Six Years, We Finally Found the Melted Uranium at Fukushima

Posted by John Gallagher in robotics/AI | Leave a Comment on After Six Years, We Finally Found the Melted Uranium at Fukushima

03.11.
2018

Six years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a specialized robot has been able to capture images of melted uranium fuel from the site for the first time.

From strawberries to apples, a wave of agriculture robotics may ease the farm labor crunch

Posted by Dan Kummer in food, robotics/AI, sustainability | Leave a Comment on From strawberries to apples, a wave of agriculture robotics may ease the farm labor crunch

03.11.
2018

Gene Editing Just Got So Precise, Researchers Can Change Single Letters of DNA Code

Posted by Montie Adkins in bioengineering, biotech/medical, food, genetics | Leave a Comment on Gene Editing Just Got So Precise, Researchers Can Change Single Letters of DNA Code

03.11.
2018

MhAX, or Microhomology-Assisted eXcision.

Gene editing has the power to completely reshape our world.

It promises everything from fixing the genetic faults that lead to disease, to destroying disease-causing microbes, to improving the nutrition of the foods we eat and even resurrecting extinct species like the wooly mammoth — all largely thanks to the genetic editing tool CRISPR, which has both popularized this work and made it possible.

Now, researchers in Japan have developed a new gene editing technique that uses CRISPR alongside a DNA repair system to modify a single DNA base in the human genome, with what the team’s press release calls “absolute precision.”

Placenta makes 100-years old the new 60 — Fox Business Mornings With Maria

Posted by Alexander Rodionov in biotech/medical, life extension | Leave a Comment on Placenta makes 100-years old the new 60 — Fox Business Mornings With Maria

03.11.
2018

Celularity, a leading U.S. biotechnology company, is seizing on an opportunity to use cells to target diseases. The CEO, Dr. Robert Hariri, says placenta can be used to augment longevity and immunity. https://www.celularity.com

Celularity’s Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP) is to harness the power of the living cell to augment biology, immunity and longevity.

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Doctors find virus in a pond, use it to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria in man’s heart

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical | Leave a Comment on Doctors find virus in a pond, use it to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria in man’s heart

03.11.
2018

Doctors from Yale University used bacteria-killing viruses collected from a Connecticut pond to successfully treat a man with a bacterial infection.

Superconductors may shed light on the black hole information paradox

Posted by Genevieve Klien in cosmology, physics | Leave a Comment on Superconductors may shed light on the black hole information paradox

03.11.
2018

Materials that conduct electricity without resistance might mimic black hole physics.

This Cosmic Merger Is Giving Life To A New Generation Of Stars

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space | Leave a Comment on This Cosmic Merger Is Giving Life To A New Generation Of Stars

03.11.
2018

This enhanced Hubble Telescope image show two galaxies in the starting phases of merging into one. Here’s what this cosmic collision is doing to them.

Nvidia Inception’s AI health care startups cover neural interfaces to better MRI

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, cyborgs, health, robotics/AI, transhumanism | Leave a Comment on Nvidia Inception’s AI health care startups cover neural interfaces to better MRI

03.11.
2018

More than 200 artificial intelligence startups applied for Nvidia’s Inception contest, which seeks to identify the best AI startups. The company created the program to find new uses for its graphics processing units (GPUs), but it’s also hoping these startups will change the world.

So far, the company has identified more than 2,800 AI startups over the years through Inception. I listened to pitches from 12 finalists in a Shark Tank styled judging event last week. Each is competing to be one of three finalists to share the $1 million prize pool.

“We’re trying to enable our ecosystem of deep learning neural networks,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, as he introduced a panel of four judges. The 12 semi-finalists gave their 8-minute pitches, six finalists were selected, and the final winners will be picked at the company’s GPU Technology Conference on March 27 in San Jose, California. They ranged from AI for bionic arms to faster, cheaper, and more accurate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.