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Jul 2, 2021

Guardian Deletes Fake News Article on Life Extension

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Did you know that life extension is impossible? I didn’t until the keen minds over at the Guardian informed me as such. Fortunately before I decided to give up my career in regenerative medicine I decided to look into exactly how the Guardian came to such a revelation. What I discovered was so earth shattering that it rocked my very understanding of the world, and made me question everything I thought I knew. That realisation was that, despite their consistent insistence to the contrary, the media lies, a lot.

Ok maybe this was not as shocking as I made it out to be, in fact it’s pretty widely known by now that the media is generally no stranger to the odd lie here and there. If you are not familiar with the story allow me to give you a recap. A recent study was conducted in order to find out if human lifespans have actually increased due to advanced in medicine. To do this, scientists used statistical models to remove non-age related causes of death from historical records (such as murder, death in child birth, plague etc) in order to determine what the uninterrupted human lifespan is, and if it has increased over time. What was found is that our medical science is yet to fundamentally extend human lifespan. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the field of longevity research as we know full well that none of our current medical treatments address causes of ageing. What this study does not conclude however is that life extension is impossible.

Jul 2, 2021

Microsoft warns of Windows “PrintNightmare” vulnerability that’s being actively exploited

Posted by in category: security

Security researchers accidentally revealed a huge flaw.


Microsoft is warning Windows users about an unpatched critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service. The vulnerability, dubbed PrintNightmare, was uncovered earlier this week after security researchers accidentally published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. While Microsoft hasn’t rated the vulnerability, it allows attackers to remotely execute code with system-level privileges, which is as critical and problematic as you can get in Windows.

Researchers at Sangfor published the PoC, in what appears to have been a mistake, or a miscommunication between the researchers and Microsoft. The test code was quickly deleted, but not before it had already been forked on GitHub.

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Jul 2, 2021

NSA, FBI warn of ongoing brute force hacking campaign tied to Russian military

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, government, military

Russian military intelligence tied to the group Fancy Bear are using brute force techniques to infiltrate the networks of government and private sector organizations, a joint advisory from US and UK cybersecurity agencies said.

Jul 2, 2021

Russian Hackers Are Trying to Brute-Force Hundreds of Networks

Posted by in category: futurism

While SolarWinds rightly drew attention earlier this year, Moscow’s Fancy Bear group has been on a password-guessing spree this whole time.

Jul 2, 2021

Circadian Biological Clock The Key To Infection

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

It appears your susceptibility to a virus, and also the intensity of the viral load that goes on to attack if your defences are breached, are inextricably linked to your sleep quality and circadian clock.

Jul 2, 2021

Molecular machines talk to living cells for the first time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, nanotechnology

For the first time, an artificial molecular motor has been created that can ‘talk’ to living cells – by gently pulling their surface with enough physical force to elicit a biochemical response. The approach could help scientists decode the language that cells use to communicate with each other in tissues.

‘There is a mechanical language in the form of physical forces applied by the cells themselves, and we want to understand what information is communicated and what the consequences are,’ explains Aránzazu del Campo, who led the study at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany. ‘Ultimately, we want to be able to provide signals to cells and guide their function when they are not able to do that by themselves in disease cases.’

Usually, studying how cells communicate by sensing mechanical stimuli and producing biochemical responses requires prodding them with pipettes or the tip of an atomic force microscope. However, this doesn’t work at the more complex tissue level.

Jul 2, 2021

Dr. Maria Millan, MD — President and CEO — California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

US$8.5 Billion In Funding — 150+ Projects


Dr. Maria Millan, MD, is the President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM — https://www.cirm.ca.gov/), an organization that was created in 2004 when voters initially approved a state Proposition which allocated US$3 billion to fund this fascinating area of medicine, and which recently received an additional US$5.5 billion in renewed funding.

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Jul 2, 2021

New membrane enables us to harvest ‘osmotic’ energy from water

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

The researchers were inspired by bone and cartilage when designing the new membrane.


You’ve likely heard of solar energy, but what is osmotic energy?

Jul 2, 2021

Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, quantum physics

A new theory explains the seemingly irreversible arrow of time while yielding insights into entropy, quantum computers, black holes, and the past-future divide.

Jul 2, 2021

Breakthrough CRISPR Gene Therapy Could Be a ‘One and Done’ Injection

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

In an early trial, patients received a single infusion of a CRISPR-based therapy to knock out the mutated gene responsible for their disease.