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Mar 18, 2017
World’s First Lab-Grown Chicken Has Been Tasted And Apparently It’s Delicious
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, food
Will vegetarians start eating meat if this works out?
Lab-grown meat is a not a new concept. We’ve had the meatball, the world’s most expensive beefburger, and possibly shrimp. Now it’s the turn of chicken and duck.
San Francisco-based startup, Memphis Meats, has produced the very first “clean meat” poultry grown from cells in a lab, serving them up in a taste test that included classic southern fried chicken and decidedly fancy duck a l’orange.
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Mar 18, 2017
Map of all anti-aging organizations I could find on the internet
Posted by Alexander Rodionov in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Mar 17, 2017
Consequences of The Trump Budget Proposal for Rejuvenation Biotechnology
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
What the proposed Trump budget might mean for scientific funding and especially rejuvenation biotechnology.
What could the proposed Trump budget mean for rejuvenation biotech?
Mar 17, 2017
How Artificial Intelligence and the robotic revolution will change the workplace of tomorrow
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: biotech/medical, economics, education, employment, finance, habitats, law, robotics/AI
The workplace is going to look drastically different ten years from now. The coming of the Second Machine Age is quickly bringing massive changes along with it. Manual jobs, such as lorry driving or house building are being replaced by robotic automation, and accountants, lawyers, doctors and financial advisers are being supplemented and replaced by high level artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
So what do we need to learn today about the jobs of tomorrow? Two things are clear. The robots and computers of the future will be based on a degree of complexity that will be impossible to teach to the general population in a few short years of compulsory education. And some of the most important skills people will need to work with robots will not be the things they learn in computing class.
Mar 17, 2017
Crispr Webinar: Using Synthetic Crispr libraries
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: biotech/medical
For people interested or working on Crispr related stuff.
*Benefits of performing arrayed CRISPR RNA (crRNA) screening.
*How to setup a successful arrayed crRNA screen.
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Mar 16, 2017
Chinese researchers announce designer baby breakthrough
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Science has taken another step toward delivering the perfect newborn – or at least a bouncing baby free of certain genetic defects.
Chinese researchers used a genome editing technique called CRISPR to rid normal embryos of hereditary diseases that cause blood disorders and other ailments, according to New Scientist. Experts who reviewed the project told the publication that, even though it involved just six embryos, it carries promise.
“It is encouraging,” Robin Lovell-Badge, a human genome expert at the Francis Crick Institute in London, told New Scientist.
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Mar 16, 2017
Supercomputers may boost life expectancy
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, robotics/AI, supercomputing
This is nowhere near the power of the biggest systems, but still allows us to participate in research and development powered by supercomputer.
The idea that a computer could deliver an increase in life expectancy arises for a number of reasons, Prof Desplat says. Major gains are expected from the emergence of personalised medicine, care specifically tailored to match your genetic make-up. This will be driven in the not too distant future by “deep artificial intelligence learning” run on a supercomputer. These will also deliver faster more accurate early diagnosis, he says.
These computers are used in a variety of ways, from weather forecasting and climate modelling to energy usage modelling, statistical processing and seismic analysis when prospecting for oil and gas.
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Mar 16, 2017
Patients Lose Sight After Stem Cells Are Injected Into Their Eyes
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, life extension
And today a clear lesson in why jumping the gun and not using appropriate engineering safety in regenerative medicine is reckless and dangerous. The steady and scientific path is always the best way when health is on the line. The current system needs streamlining for sure and projects like Lifespan.io are helping to create a progressive environment but ensuring appropriate safety is observed. We must be careful in healthcare and this story reminds us why.
Three women suffered severe eye damage at a Florida clinic, exposing gaps in protections for people seeking unproven treatments.
Mar 15, 2017
George Church, Lumosity want those with good memory to ‘share it, not hoard it’
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
George Church is very interested in your memories now.
Harvard researcher George Church is looking for people with exceptionally good memory to take part in a study aimed at finding genetic mechanisms that boost memory in research that could one day result in better drugs or diagnostic tests.
Church and other researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project, in collaboration with Lumos Labs — the makers of the brain-training game Lumosity — will look for common genetic markers in individuals with exceptional memories, attention and reaction speeds.
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