Blagosklonny MV. has published in the Cell Cycle journal a proposal to lengthen lifespan using the mTor pathway Although we do not know everything about aging, we now know enough to start its pharmacologic suppression using clinically approved drugs. Aging turns out to be driven by sensing-signaling pathways (such as the mTOR pathway). Given that …
Nuclear fusion space propulsion presentation from 2005 The graphs below show why achieving 100 Kev using dense plasma focus fusion by Lawrenceville Plasma Physics would be such a huge deal. 100 Kev opens up all of the fusion reactions. Here is a 6 page overview of the Star Thrust Experiment Deuterium – Helium3 used for …
Nature – Human intestinal tissue grown in the lab Wells and his collaborators are working on approaches to create intestinal nerve cells in the cultures and transplant the tissue in mouse models of intestinal disorders. They also plan to produce iPS cells from patients with congenital abnormalities and use the culture system to pinpoint what …
1. Officials in North Korea have warned that they are on the brink of war with the South, as the United States and South Korea prepare to conduct a joint training exercise in the Yellow Sea. North Korea also conducted artillery test fires audible on Yeonpyeong. The rounds fired on Friday were the first heard …
Carnival of Space 176 is up at Kentucky Space If you’re interested in repeatable and affordable micro-g research, contact Kentucky Space about your payload. This site submitted an article on the Fermilab holometer to test if the universe is a hologram Ian O’Neill at Discovery covers the tests to see if our universe is a …
In Situ Bioprinting of the Skin for Burns was presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress Researchers from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Weixin Zhao, Tamer Aboushwareb, Dennis Dice BS, Anthony Atala, James J Yoo) showed off the results of a unique experiment involving a printer that uses living cells as …
Ben Goertzel has finished writing the last chapter of his co-authored two-volume book on how to create beneficial human-level AGI, Building Better Minds (expected 2011 publish date) This site had an interview by Sander Olson of Ben Goertzel last year The last chapter describes, in moderate detail, how the CogPrime cognitive architecture (implemented in the …
Purdue University researchers have developed a method that uses aluminum and a liquid alloy to extract hydrogen from seawater to run engines in boats and ships, representing a potential replacement for gasoline and diesel fuel in marine applications. The technique had previously worked only for freshwater, but a new formulation also enables the method to …
Called mChip, the handheld device uses a microchip to perform intricate medical tests for illnesses such as sexually transmitted diseases or prostate cancer. It needs just a drop of blood to diagnose a patient, and results come back in 12 to 15 minutes. This lab-on-a-chip method miniaturizes and simplifies the once time-consuming system of analyzing …
Scientists perfect new nanowire technique http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/915/scientists_perfect_new_nanowire_technique Scientists at the University of Leeds have perfected a new technique that allows them to make molecular nanowires out of thin strips of ring-shaped molecules known as discotic liquid crystals (DLCs). The findings could be an important step in the development of next generation electronic devices, such as light-harvesting …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software China’s current per capita GDP just exceeds $3,000 and developed countries with per capita GDP more than $40,000 are still increasing greenhouse gas emissions according to Xie Zhenhua, China’s top climate change official. Xie added that China’s emissions peak was unlikely to come before its per …