Deep whole genome sequencing of different kinds of crops for agriculture and many human genomes for more understanding of disease and variation in human traits

April 7, 2017November 1, 2013 by Brian Wang

In November 2011, BGI Research Institute launched the 3-Million Genomes Project, which is made up of the Million Plant and Animal Genomes Project; the Million Human Genomes Project; and the Million Microecosystem Genomes Project. In February 2013, BGI had already claimed to have sequenced 50,000 whole human genomes. With a U.S. nonprofit, Autism Speaks, BGI …

Genetically modified has 25% higher yield from larger grains

April 7, 2017September 4, 2013 by Brian Wang

China consumes nearly a third of the world’s rice, which is more than what the country currently produces. As its demand for rice continues to increase, crop breeders must come up with new ways to improve grain yield — and genetic modification is undoubtedly the most promising route. Yueqin Chen at Sun Yat-sen University in …

DARPA project for device to clean blood to prevent Sepsis

April 7, 2017August 8, 2013 by Brian Wang

Up to $22.83M in funds to be allocated for the Battelle, NxStage and Aethlon collaboration to develop an advanced portable medical device for DARPA—and ultimately civilian—use. The device will clean blood similar to how dialysis works but instead will prevent Sepsis. DARPA created the Dialysis-Like Therapeutics (DLT) program to develop a portable device that creates …

New 2-D optical phased array technology to enable advanced LADAR

April 7, 2017January 20, 2013 by Brian Wang

Most people are familiar with the concept of RADAR. Radio frequency (RF) waves travel through the atmosphere, reflect off of a target, and return to the RADAR system to be processed. The amount of time it takes to return correlates to the object’s distance. In recent decades, this technology has been revolutionized by electronically scanned …

RNA Guided Human Gene and Genome Engineering and Radical life extension, disease prevention and cures

April 7, 2017January 13, 2013 by Brian Wang

Science – RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas9 Bacteria and archaea have evolved adaptive immune defenses termed clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems that use short RNA to direct degradation of foreign nucleic acids. Here, we engineer the type II bacterial CRISPR system to function with custom guide RNA (gRNA) in human …

Proof of concept molecular machine that slowly mimics the work of a ribosome to assemble peptides

April 7, 2017January 11, 2013 by Brian Wang

The field of molecular machines has taken a new bio-inspired turn to assemble another molecule, in this case linking up individual amino acids into a peptide. While this molecular peptide synthesiser isn’t going to rival a ribosome for speed any time soon, it does suggest a way to make multicomponent polymers. Researchers mimic the ribosome, …

Aubrey and SENS Expect to Announce Lysosens success which will help prevent cardiovascular disease

April 7, 2017January 3, 2013 by Brian Wang

Here is interview with Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey is the main driver behind SENS. They hope to make public soon a revolutionary advance to insert a gene [derived from bacteria] in our patients and prevent them from dying from cardiovascular disease – the No. 1 cause of death today. This would be a successful development …

Why Denser Cities Are Smarter and More Productive

April 7, 2017December 11, 2012 by Brian Wang

The Atlantic Cities – It’s clear that density plays an important role in economic growth. Density brings people and firms closer together which makes it easier to share and exchange information, invent new technologies, and launch new firms. But the question remains: How exactly — in what ways and through which channels — does density …

Five IT Predictions for China in 2013 and Beyond from Gartner

April 7, 2017November 21, 2012 by Brian Wang

Enterprise spending on IT in China is forecast to grow from US$117.8 billion in 2013 to reach $172.4 billion in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 8 percent, compared to a global growth rate of 3 percent over the same period, according to Gartner. “In common with many emerging markets, cloud and mobile …

Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128

April 7, 2017October 29, 2012 by Brian Wang

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 is up at Atomic Power Review If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …

Magnets steer medical 50 micron microbots through blood vessels

April 7, 2017October 25, 2012 by Brian Wang

IEEE Spectrum – October 2006 was the first time anyone had steered an object wirelessly through the blood vessel of a living creature. Microrobots would be able to travel deep inside the body, cruising our tiniest blood vessels to places that catheters can’t go and performing tasks that would be impossible without invasive procedures. A …