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Jan 10, 2022

Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers how to defeat its DRM

Posted by in category: computing

Lack of chips produces “no negative effects on print quality,” Canon says.

Jan 10, 2022

Scientists Capture Airborne Animal DNA for the First Time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Researchers filtered the air around two zoos and identified genetic material from dozens of species, a technique that could help track and conserve wildlife.

Jan 10, 2022

Last Week in AI #150: Cuddly robo-dogs, self-farming farms, AI-crafted craft beer recipes

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability

Japanese are increasingly turning to “social robots”, John Deere’s latest self-driving tractor will enable autonomous farming, a new South Australian craft beer has been designed entirely by AI.

Jan 10, 2022

China’s ‘artificial sun’ hits new high in clean energy boost

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

Anhui research facility expected to provide plasma physics insights crucial to setting up industrial-size reactors to generate clean energy.

Jan 10, 2022

SpaceX Starship: Impressive video shows the Mars-bound rocket’s launch tower

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

The launch tower is getting bigger.


SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared a video of the Starship’s impressive launch tower, ahead of a planned orbital flight.

Jan 10, 2022

First 3D-printed, owner-occupied home in U.S.

Posted by in category: habitats

Alquist, a house printing company, recently partnered with Habitat for Humanity to create a 3D-printed home in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Jan 10, 2022

Newcomer Conduit Leverages Frontera to Understand SARS-CoV-2 ‘Budding’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, supercomputing

I am happy to say that my recently published computational COVID-19 research has been featured in a major news article by HPCwire! I led this research as CTO of Conduit. My team utilized one of the world’s top supercomputers (Frontera) to study the mechanisms by which the coronavirus’s M proteins and E proteins facilitate budding, an understudied part of the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle. Our results may provide the foundation for new ways of designing antiviral treatments which interfere with budding. Thank you to Ryan Robinson (Conduit’s CEO) and my computational team: Ankush Singhal, Shafat M., David Hill, Jr., Tamer Elkholy, Kayode Ezike, and Ricky Williams.


Conduit, created by MIT graduate (and current CEO) Ryan Robinson, was founded in 2017. But it might not have been until a few years later, when the pandemic started, that Conduit may have found its true calling. While Conduit €™s commercial division is busy developing a Covid-19 test called nanoSPLASH, its nonprofit arm was granted access to one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world €”Frontera, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) €”to model the €œbudding € process of SARS-CoV-2.

Budding, the researchers explained, is how the virus €™ genetic material is encapsulated in a spherical envelope €”and the process is key to the virus €™ ability to infect. Despite that, they say, it has hitherto been poorly understood:

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Jan 10, 2022

Dr Anthony Atala, MD — Director, Wake Forest Inst for Regenerative Medicine — Printing Human Tissues

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, bioprinting, biotech/medical, government, life extension

Bio-Printing Complex Human Tissues & Organs — Dr. Anthony Atala, MD — Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest University.


Dr. Anthony Atala, MD, (https://school.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/A/Anthony-Atala) is the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology.

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Jan 10, 2022

Dr. Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, CEO, Novo Nordisk Foundation — Improving People’s Lives Globally

Posted by in categories: finance, food

Improving people’s lives globally from the world’s largest financial endowment — dr. mads krogsgaard thomsen, CEO, novo nordisk fonden, novo nordisk.


Dr. Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, DVM, DSc., Ph.D., is the CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation (https://novonordiskfonden.dk/), an international foundation with a dual objective: to provide a stable basis for the commercial and research activities conducted by the companies within the Novo Group (of which Novo Nordisk A/S is the largest holdings) and to support scientific, humanitarian and social purposes. In 2020, the Novo Nordisk Foundation had a net worth of US$73.1 billion, making it the largest financial endowment in the world. Novo Nordisk Foundation owns Novo Holdings A/S, a holding company and majority shareholder of Novo Nordisk, as well as Novozymes, a global biotechnology company focused on the research, development and production of industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and biopharmaceutical ingredients. The foundation is also a major shareholder in more than 75 other companies.

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Jan 10, 2022

Europe’s first carbon negative biorefinery opens in Istanbul

Posted by in category: education

Latest local news from Turkey, including top stories on education, minorities and more at DailySabah.com