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Mar 4, 2019
New techniques let scientists zero in on individual cells
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, humor
NEW YORK (AP) — Did you hear what happened when Bill Gates walked into a bar? Everybody there immediately became millionaires — on average.
That joke about a very rich man is an old one among statisticians. So why did Peter Smibert use it to explain a revolution in biology?
Because it shows averages can be misleading. And Smibert, of the New York Genome Center, says that includes when scientists are trying to understand the basic unit of life, the cell.
At The New Work Summit some of the smartest people in technology across the country pondered how to make A.I. trustworthy.
Mar 4, 2019
Specific nutritional infections early in life as risk factors for human colon and breast cancers several decades later
Posted by Pat Maechler in categories: biotech/medical, food
Infections with BMMF („Bovine Milk and Meat Factors ) in humans provide a clue, why the consumption of cow milk and meat correlates with colon and breast cancers.
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Division episomal‐persistent DNA in cancer‐ and chronic diseases, deutsches krebsforschungszentrum, heidelberg, germany.
Mar 3, 2019
Scientists Find Way to Create Renewable Supply of Cancer-Fighting Cells
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Researchers at UCLA have made a major advance in the battle against cancer by showing that it’s possible to create mature T cells with important cancer-killing receptors from pluripotent stem cells. The results could be off-the-shelf T cell cancer therapies for people who need them.
Mar 3, 2019
Imagine this: Your artwork 🎨 is one of the LAST things astronauts see before heading to space!
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Find out how you can submit original artwork for our Astronaut Crew Quarters, one of the places where crew members will spend time before heading out to the launch pad: https://go.nasa.gov/2TxmBYq
Mar 3, 2019
Stay on top of the latest engineering news
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
A protein has been identified that once neutralized can see the activation of dormant stem cells.
Mar 3, 2019
Can Anti-Aging Treatments Offer Abundant Life?
Posted by Paul Battista in category: life extension
Science seeks to fix aging and death. But a Christian vision of the good life might actually embrace them.
Mar 3, 2019
Ninja-like Black Hole Discovered Gobbling up a Gas Cloud
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
How do you find something you can’t see? Japanese astronomers have hunted a hidden black hole by observing the movement of a cloud of gas it is consuming, located 25,000 light-years away from Earth. This is the first intermediate-sized black hole ever found, giving clues to how black holes merge and grow.
Mar 3, 2019
Lightning could protect power grids from hackers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: climatology
Scientists have figured out how to use lightning signals from thousands of miles away to prevent hackers from sabotaging critical infrastructures.