Researchers from the Broad Institute and MIT have created a new mouse model to simplify application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for genome-editing experiments in living animals. The researchers successfully used the new “Cas9 mouse” model to edit multiple genes in a variety of cell types, and to model lung adenocarcinoma, one of the most lethal …
“Cement is the most-used material on the planet,” Pellenq says, noting that its present usage is estimated to be three times that of steel. “There’s no other solution to sheltering mankind in a durable way — turning liquid into stone in 10 hours, easily, at room temperature. That’s the magic of cement.” In conventional cements, …
The Indian Space Research Organization has successfully reached Mars with its Mars Orbiter Mission. * Spacecraft Successfully entered Martian Orbit * Burn Start of Main Liquid Engine Confirmed * The radio link between the Spacecraft and Earth is now blocked by Mars. * Eclipse starts – The Spacecraft is in shadow of Mars * Forward …
Bill O’Reilly proposed a mercenary army. Re-create a Special Forces unit without the personnel of a Special Forces unit. Instead: *The fighters in the O’Reilly Mercenary Army would be recruited by the United States; *They’d be trained by Special Forces under “strict discipline”; *They’d number 25,000; *They’d be English speakers; *They’d be well compensated. *Cost …
By merging two seemingly conflicting theories, Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven black holes can never come into being in the first place. Black holes are thought to be the densist matter in the universe. Mersini-Houghton’s theory combine Hawking’s radiation theory with a fundamental law of quantum theory that states no information from the universe can …
A record 228,000 human genomes will be completely sequenced this year by researchers around the globe, said Francis de Souza, president of Illumina, the maker of machines for DNA sequencing, during MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. De Souza said Illumina’s estimates suggest that the number will continue to double about every 12 …
The US Energy Information Administration has a short term outlook published Sept, 2014. * project total all liquids US oil production will be over 15 million barrels per day by the end of 2015 * total US oil production (crude oil, natural gas liquids, ethanol) is projected to be over 14 million bpd by end …
Texas crude oil production is at about 92 million barrels per month or over 3 million barrels per day. This is triple some of the months between 2001 and 2007. Texas is over the level of the 1980s and nearly back to the level of the 1970s. Texas is near the oil production level of …
1. A $10 billion agreement lays the foundation for South Africa’s large-scale nuclear power plant procurement and development program based on the construction of Russian VVER reactors with a total installed capacity of up to 9.6 GW, or up to eight units, Rosatom said. The reactors will be the first based on the Russian technology …
The Montney (oil and gas formation in BC and Alberta Canada) is estimated to hold 2,200 trillion Cubic feet of gas, Almost 29 billion barrels of natural gas liquids and over 136 billion barrels of oil. But it is the tight liquids rich fairway (approximately 15-20 miles wide) that contains high concentrations of both free …
Within a year, Google is aiming to have a continuous ring of high-altitude balloons in the Southern Hemisphere capable of providing wireless Internet service to cell phones on the ground. That’s according to Astro Teller, head of the Google X lab, the company established with the purpose of working on “moon shot” research projects. He …