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Jan 20, 2025

20 Years in the Making: Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Anticancer Weapon

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, education, law

A new twist on a decades-old anticancer strategy has demonstrated significant potential against various cancer types in a preclinical study conducted by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is a prestigious private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, Penn is one of the oldest universities in the United States. It is renowned for its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary education and its professional schools, including the Wharton School, one of the leading business schools globally. The university offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across various fields such as law, medicine, engineering, and arts and sciences. Penn is also known for its significant contributions to research, innovative teaching methods, and active campus life, making it a hub of academic and extracurricular activity.

Jan 18, 2025

Scientists Have Proven It’s Possible to Bring a Dead Brain ‘Back to Life’—But There’s a Catch

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, law, neuroscience

When dealing with a human brain, preventing perception would require even more care. If a person’s brain inched toward consciousness under such an experiment, the consequences would be thorny, according to Hank Greely, a biomedical legal expert at Stanford University in California. “That’s very tricky ethically, legally and scientifically,” he told New Scientist.

Vrselja told the publication that he and his colleagues “have no intention of plugging anyone at the point of death into their BrainEx machine.” But what they’ve accomplished so far is a significant step toward proving that brain death may not be as final as we once thought, arousing fresh hope that patients who are hovering between life and death can still be saved.

In the meantime, the researchers have had some success in keeping brains “cellularly active for up to 24 hours” so they can test treatments for neurological conditions. They hope to help patients with diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Jan 17, 2025

Eve, AI Legal Platform, Raises $47 Million Series A Led By Andreessen Horowitz

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

Panqualityism.


Series a financing led by andreessen horowitz to drive ai-powered legal transformation.

Jan 14, 2025

China considers selling TikTok U.S. operations to Musk, Bloomberg reports

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, government, internet, law

The Chinese government is considering a plan that would have Elon Musk acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations to keep the app from being effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

The contingency plan is one of several options China is exploring as the U.S. Supreme Court determines whether to uphold a law that calls for China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business by Jan. 19, the report said, citing anonymous sources.

After that deadline, third-party internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok’s operations in the country.

Jan 14, 2025

A Guide to Managing Interconnected AI Systems

Posted by in categories: business, finance, governance, law, robotics/AI

Increasingly, AI systems are interconnected, which is generating new complexities and risks. Managing these ecosystems effectively requires comprehensive training, designing technological infrastructures and processes so they foster collaboration, and robust governance frameworks. Examples from healthcare, financial services, and legal profession illustrate the challenges and ways to overcome them.

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The risks and complexities of these ecosystems require specific training, infrastructure, and governance.

Jan 14, 2025

Speed Unleashed: How a Tiny Quantum Switch Is Supercharging Data Centers

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, computing, education, law, quantum physics

Researchers at the university of pennsylvania.

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is a prestigious private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, Penn is one of the oldest universities in the United States. It is renowned for its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary education and its professional schools, including the Wharton School, one of the leading business schools globally. The university offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across various fields such as law, medicine, engineering, and arts and sciences. Penn is also known for its significant contributions to research, innovative teaching methods, and active campus life, making it a hub of academic and extracurricular activity.

Jan 14, 2025

False Memories Under Fire: Surprising Science Behind What We Really Recall

Posted by in categories: law, science

New research challenges the ease of implanting false memories, highlighting flaws in the influential “Lost in the Mall” study.

By reexamining the data from a previous study, researchers found that many supposed false memories might actually be based on real experiences, casting doubt on the use of such studies in legal contexts.

Reevaluating the “Lost in the Mall” Study.

Dec 24, 2024

Toward a Second Law for Living Systems

Posted by in categories: biological, law, physics

A new theory related to the second law of thermodynamics describes the motion of active biological systems ranging from migrating cells to traveling birds.

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published the book What is life? [1]. Therein, he reasoned about the origin of living systems by using methods of statistical physics. He argued that organisms form ordered states far from thermal equilibrium by minimizing their own disorder. In physical terms, disorder corresponds to positive entropy. Schrödinger thus concluded: “What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy […] freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.” This statement poses the question of whether the second law of thermodynamics is valid for living systems. Now Benjamin Sorkin at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and colleagues have considered the problem of entropy production in living systems by putting forward a generalization of the second law [2].

Dec 23, 2024

Legal News, Analysis, & Commentary

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

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have developed a new approach, which combines advanced screening techniques with computational modeling, to significantly shorten the drug discovery process. It has the potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry.

The research, published recently in Science Advances, represents a significant leap forward in drug discovery efficiency. It was featured on LegalReader.com.

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2024/09/uc-college-of-medic…aster.html

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Dec 18, 2024

UK plans to favour AI firms over creators with a new copyright regime

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

One of the biggest uncertainties in the ongoing AI revolution is whether these systems can legally be trained on copyrighted data. Now, the UK says it plans to clarify the matter with a change to the law.

By Chris Stokel-Walker

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