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Aug 19, 2015
Get Ready To 3D Print Your Own Satellites In Space — By Neel V. Patel | Inverse
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: 3D printing, satellites, space
“A California startup called Made In Space wants to make 3D for use in orbit. The idea is to give consumers the opportunity to allow their own satellites to be built right there, several hundred miles above Earth’s surface. Plans are in motion to send up a printer capable of accepting printing instructions from the public and building whatever someone on the ground has in mind.”
Aug 19, 2015
The Martian (2015) Theatrical Trailer
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: space, space travel
Theatrical Trailer for The Martian. During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Aug 19, 2015
Intel boosts SSD performance up to 7x with new Optane family
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, electronics
Intel unveiled its new Optane line of SSDs at IDF this week, with a focus on high performance and endurance. The drives should be shipping to the consumer market in 2016.
Aug 19, 2015
Forget rockets: This ‘space elevator’ could launch you into orbit
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
A Canadian company has clinched a patent for a 12.4 mile-high “space elevator” that could launch astronauts and tourists into orbit.
The free-standing tower would essentially be inflated, supported by a series of gas-pressurized cells, and serve as a docking platform for space planes that could launch cargo, tourists and satellites directly into lower orbit.
Thoth Technology, the Ontario-based company behind the invention, told CNBC the elevator could transport 10 tons of cargo at approximately seven miles per hour, with passengers able to reach the top of the tower in about 60 minutes. Passengers could then board a space plane that could reach lower orbit without the need for costly a rocket launch.
Aug 19, 2015
First Near-Fully Formed Brain Grown In Lab, Ohio State Scientists Say
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Scientists at Ohio State University say they’ve grown the first near-complete human brain in a lab.
The brain organoid, if licensed for commercial lab use, could help speed research for neurological diseases and disorders, like Alzheimer’s and autism, Rene Anand, an Ohio State professor who worked on the project, said in a statement Tuesday.
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Aug 19, 2015
Indian airport now runs entirely on solar power
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, solar power, sustainability
Aug 19, 2015
Miniature brain-in-a-dish could help advance Alzheimer’s research
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
A lab-grown brain is the most complete ever developed, equivalent to the brain maturity of a five-week-old foetus.
Cancer requires extensive and fast division in order to become a serious threat, but this feature also renders it vulnerable, allowing certain growth pathways to be targeted. A new drug candidate has emerged which exploits this weakness, overstimulating proteins required for growth — tipping cellular stress in virulent cancer cells over the edge.
“No prior drug has been previously developed or proposed that actually stimulates an oncogene to promote therapy. Our prototype drug works in multiple types of cancers and encourages us that this could be a more general addition to the cancer drug arsenal.”
Many types of cancer require specific mutations in genes related to growth, and one particular target is the steroid receptor coactivator (SRC) family of oncogenes. These lie at the centre of signalling pathways used to grow rapidly, and conventional research has focused on inhibiting them to prevent tumour growth. Instead of inhibiting, this new strategy aims to upregulate their activity, overstimulating them to an extent that destroys the host cell. In their search for a suitable molecule which might cause such stimulation, researchers stumbled across a compound labeled MCB-613.
Aug 19, 2015
MitoSENS Mitochondrial Repair Project
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension
Lifespan.io is running a SENS fundraiser to aid research into Mitochondrial repair. This is a new fundraiser platform to help get important regenerative medicine research funded and underway. Let us hope this is the start of how research could be funded and that it opens up faster progress.
Engineering backup copies of mitochondrial genes to place in the nucleus of the cell, aiming to prevent age-related damage and restore lost mitochondrial function.
