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Mar 1, 2016
Scientists aim to harness power of body’s electrical impulses to treat patients
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry
I am so glad to see this finally. Researchers aim to turn our electrical impulses into a mainstay of medical treatment through bioelectronics, or electroceuticals. I have study the neurological sensory patterns for over a decade as side research to help myself understand sensory patterns of the brain as well as how the brain repairs cells, injuries, and other conditions as well as it’s involvement with cancer, etc. I do love this.
We finally may see a day when chemical/ artificial meds are no longer needed to treat many conditions.
Until now the pharmaceutical industry has been based on chemistry and biology. Patients are treated with drugs that work through biochemical interactions with the body’s molecular pathways. Now GlaxoSmithKline, the UK pharmaceutical company, is.
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Mar 1, 2016
Atlas The Robot Can Enlist in the US Military Anytime She Wants
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: government, internet, military, robotics/AI
I hear this author; however, can it pass military basic training/ boot camp? Think not.
Back when Alphabet was known as Google, the company bought Boston Dynamics, makers of the amazingly advanced robot named Atlas. At the time, Google promised that Boston Dynamics would stop taking military contracts, as it often did. But here’s the open secret about Atlas: She can enlist in the US military anytime she wants.
Technology transfer is a two-way street. Traditionally we think of technology being transferred from the public to the private sector, with the internet as just one example. The US government invests in and develops all kinds of important technologies for war and espionage, and many of those technologies eventually make their way to American consumers in one way or another. When the government does so consciously with both military and civilian capabilities in mind, it’s called dual-use tech.
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Mar 1, 2016
‘Very Close’: Pentagon’s Death Laser Right Around the Corner
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, military
A new laser tag coming our way; however, this time when you’re tagged, you really are dead.
US officials tout the ‘unprecedented power’ of killing lasers to be released by 2023.
The US Army will deploy its first laser weapons by 2023, according to a recently released report.
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Sounds like new options to be considered around Polyhistidine Tagging.
Among bioprocessors, attitudes toward affinity purification range from a desire to move beyond old specificity/yield trade-offs to a willingness to explore new polyhistidine technology spin-offs, including systems for real-time detection.
Mar 1, 2016
Common vegetables help your brain defend against depression
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: food, health, neuroscience
If you have the “blues” eat some “greens”.
You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness — but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re healthy.
Mar 1, 2016
‘Brain Prize’ for UK research on memory mechanisms
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: neuroscience
Your brain is “Plastic” according to Professor Bliss the receipentant of the UK’s Brain Prize award.
Three British researchers win a one million-euro prize for their work on how memories are stored inside the brain.
Mar 1, 2016
Round Up linked to cancer
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, sustainability
Bad news if you use RoundUp.
Local councils across Australia that use the weed killer glyphosate on nature-strips and playgrounds are being warned that the chemical probably causes cancer.
An updated World Health Organisation (WHO) warning for the herbicide, often trade marked as Roundup, is also routinely used in household gardens and farms.
Mar 1, 2016
Autonomous Killing Machines Are More Dangerous Than We Think
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, drones, ethics, law, military, policy, robotics/AI
I see articles and reports like the following about military actually considering fully autonomous missals, drones with missals, etc. I have to ask myself what happened to the logical thinking.
A former Pentagon official is warning that autonomous weapons would likely be uncontrollable in real-world situations thanks to design failures, hacking, and external manipulation. The answer, he says, is to always keep humans “in the loop.”
The new report, titled “ Autonomous Weapons and Operational Risk,” was written by Paul Scharre, a director at the Center for a New American Security. Scharre used to work at the office of the Secretary of Defense where he helped the US military craft its policy on the use of unmanned and autonomous weapons. Once deployed, these future weapons would be capable of choosing and engaging targets of their own choosing, raising a host of legal, ethical, and moral questions. But as Scharre points out in the new report, “They also raise critically important considerations regarding safety and risk.”
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Mar 1, 2016
Minister announces £204 million investment in doctoral training and Quantum Technologies science
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: engineering, quantum physics, science
UK is getting serious about Quantum especially in their universities; all £204 million worth.
Universities and Science minister Jo Johnson has announced two major investments in science and engineering research totaling £204 million.
Forty UK universities will share in £167 million that will support doctoral training over a two year period, while £37 million will be put into developing the graduate skills, specialist equipment and facilities that will put UK Quantum Technologies research at the forefront of the field.