Chromosomal telomere repair treatment is near. Ultimately this could produce new ways to reverse aging in tissues and organs, and new treatments that may one day cure or even eradicate cancer. The hope of treatments for such age-related diseases as macular degeneration, osteoporosis, arteriosclerosis, cirrhosis and Progeria is right around the corner. Commercially, telomere therapy …
A pdf that describes digital control of reacting chemicals in microreactors This was featured in nanodot This enables faster work and more accurate results. Faster technological progress should be enabled. It is now feasible to handle complicated chemical processes in a microreactor in an automated fashion. From concept to working chip, each microreactor takes less …
Scientific American provides a long term analysis of global warming in this months issue Global Electricity usage is projected to increase by 160% by 2050 from 15 trillion kwatt-hrs per year to over 40 trillion kw-hrs. The problem is the carbon dioxide that we need to make that much energy from now to 2056. In …
The University of Washington have created an ion pump cooling device that utilizes an electrical field to accelerate air to speeds previously possible only with the use of traditional blowers. Trial runs showed that the prototype device significantly cooled an actively heated surface on just 0.6 watts of power. The prototype cooling chip contains two …
DIY nuclear detector The freelancers began by running a San Francisco Police Department patrol boat around local shipping lanes while using a common 1-inch-diameter Ranger sodium iodide detector to measure the background radiation at 23 separate locations, from the San Francisco Lightship Buoy down into the Oakland container docks and the Richmond oil docks. Encouraged, …
Looks like the first two patents that I list are the most relevant to what they are doing. A series of josephson junction loops. Based on funding and progress I am thinking 32-40 qubits when they release and 100-200 qubits within a year or so after. (just a guess/gut feel from looking at the research …
D-wave computers are a variant of adiabatic quantum computation (AQC). The way the AQC model works is that you build an array of qubits (say a square grid for example) with programmable couplers between qubits (see here for some published info on one of D-Wave’s programmable couplers). The settings of these couplers, together with individual …
Microscopic metal boxes that hold a few nanolitres of liquid each have been developed by US researchers. They say the tiny containers could someday be used for precision chemistry or even drug delivery inside the body. The tiny boxes are made from flat templates that self-assemble due to liquid surface tension during the production process. …
Post-Translational Logic (PTL) devices regulate the post-translational modifications of proteins to define system state and control cell function. Current synthetic biological circuits make use of protein-DNA and RNA-RNA interactions to control gene expression in bacteria– such circuits are examples of Transcription-based Logic. This is an area where Samantha Sutton of MIT is a leading researcher.The …
Northamerican Energy Group Corporation (Pink Sheets:NNYG) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Bayport Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to establish a wholly owned division of Northamerican Energy, which will research, and develop, both Thorium-based nuclear power generation facilities, and Thorium-based power cells. It is estimated that 225 of the 444 commercial nuclear power …
The Dwave systems superconducting quantum computer is designed only for Maximum Clique NP-complete problems. This is the same as Maximum Independent Set and Minimum Vertex Cover. Max Clique is known to be “really really hard”, in the sense that it is intractable to even get good approximate solutions. It is APX complete From one of …