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Apr 17, 2019

The first of the TTC’s zero-emission electric buses rolled into town today (PHOTOS)

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The first of the TTC’s zero-emission electric buses arrived today.

According to TTC spokesperson Stuart Green, the new vehicle must undergo testing and commissioning first before it can enter regular service later this spring.

The first of the #TTC ‘s zero emission electric buses arrived today! This @newflyer vehicle (#3700) will undergo testing and commissioning before it enters regular service later this Spring. We’ll have 60 e-buses by year end, making the TTC a national clean-tech fleet leader. pic.twitter.com/voobFV8JEM

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Apr 17, 2019

As Ebola outbreak rages, vaccine is 97.5% effective, protecting over 90K people

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The latest Ebola outbreak is bad—but it would be far worse without this vaccine.

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Apr 17, 2019

Gene Therapy To Engineer Healthy Longevity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Science CEO Liz Parrish are in a fight to eradicate diseases of aging. Preventive & regenerative gene therapies are key to fixing cellular death.

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Apr 17, 2019

CRISPR gene editing has been used on humans in the US

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

A medical trial in the US has used CRISPR gene editing to treat humans.

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Apr 17, 2019

Incredible 3D Laser Scans Saved in 2015 Could Help Rebuild The Notre Dame

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The world watched in horror Monday night while flames tore through the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. As fire consumed the roof and toppled its iconic central spire, it seemed as though the historic church could be lost forever — but it’s possible, thanks to cutting-edge imagining technology, that all hope may not be lost.

Thanks to the meticulous work of Vassar College’s art historian Andrew Tallon, every exquisite detail and mysterious clue to the building’s 13th-century construction was recorded in a digital archive in 2015 using laser imaging.

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Apr 17, 2019

Brain Computer Interface — Steve Hoffman

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

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Apr 17, 2019

Elon Musk’s Question for Super-Smart AI: What’s Outside the Simulation?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, singularity

“The singularity for this level of the simulation is coming soon,” Musk replied to a tweet by the official Twitter account of the television show Rick and Morty in 2017. “I wonder what the levels above us look like.”

READ MORE: Elon Musk Reveals the One Question He Would Ask a Human-Level A.I. [Inverse]

More on the simulation hypothesis: MIT Prof: It’s More Likely We’re Living in a Simulation Than Not.

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Apr 17, 2019

Program: Happy to announce Prof. Julie K. Andersen at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference

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


“Julie has been associated with SENS since its earliest days: she participated in the first workshop that I organised to discuss it, in 2000, and she was a co-author on the first SENS paper in 2002. We’re delighted to be funding her laboratory at the Buck Institute to explore new ways of eliminating neurofibrillary tangles from neurons of Alzheimer’s sufferers, and at UA2019 we will hear about their initial progress.” says Aubrey de Grey.

https://www.undoing-aging.org/news/dr-julie-k-andersen-to-sp…Qq6fZbArkM #

#undoingaging #sens #foreverhealthy

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Apr 17, 2019

We are starting to share a selection of the exciting talks at our 2019 Undoing Aging conference

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Videos will be released step by step over the next few weeks as we receive clearance from the individual speakers.


This week we kick it off with Jerry Shay, who is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, presenting ‘Telomeres and Telomerase in Aging and Cancer‘.

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Apr 17, 2019

A biosynthetic dual-core cell computer

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing

ETH researchers have integrated two CRISPR-Cas9-based core processors into human cells. This represents a huge step towards creating powerful biocomputers.

Controlling through gene switches based on a model borrowed from the digital world has long been one of the primary objectives of synthetic biology. The digital technique uses what are known as logic gates to process , creating circuits where, for example, output signal C is produced only when input signals A and B are simultaneously present.

To date, biotechnologists had attempted to build such digital circuits with the help of protein gene switches in . However, these had some serious disadvantages: they were not very flexible, could accept only simple programming, and were capable of processing just one input at a time, such as a specific metabolic molecule. More complex computational processes in cells are thus possible only under certain conditions, are unreliable, and frequently fail.

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