More Antiaging work from Harvard’s Sinclair Lab

The Harvard Lab of David Sinclair has nine new antiaging publications since the work published in Dec, 2013 where there was partial reversal of some aspects [restoring mitochondrial cellular communication] of aging in mice. Cell Metabolism – The Ratio of Macronutrients, Not Caloric Intake, Dictates Cardiometabolic Health, Aging, and Longevity in Ad Libitum-Fed Mice Highlights …

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Will Gallium Arsenide finally be ready to take the handoff from silicon for improving chip performance ?

Poet Technologies (market value $220 million) is claiming that gallium arsenide computer chips will finally be ready to drive computer performance as silicon is hitting the wall. The gallium arsenide integrated circuit market is forecasted to grow to $8 billion in 2017, according to a new report ‘The GaAs IC Market’ by The Information Network. …

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More Notes from the Rejuvenation Biotech Conference

George Church of Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute led the conference off with a summary of progress in CRISPR technology. A questioner asked George about interaction with “chromatin state”. In any given cell, at any given time, some of the DNA is unwrapped and available for expression, called euchromatin, while the rest, called heterochromatin, is spooled …

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Elon Musk says he will put millions of people on Mars

New Scientist – Musk declared recently that he could put a human on Mars in 10 to 20 years’ time. It is a remarkable claim, yet even more astonishingly Musk tells me that he could do it for $5 billion, and possibly as little as $2 billion – a snip when you consider that the …

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Google Provides Free Optical Character Recognition and results can be Translated

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Google Optical Character Recognition (OCR), allows your application to create editable Google Documents from highttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=17555522h-resolution images containing text (such as faxes or scanned letters). To perform OCR on a .png, .jpg, or .gif upload, add the ocr=true parameter onto your upload request: POST /feeds/default/private/full?ocr=true HTTP/1.1 Check …

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Modfied HIV Delivered Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Diseases

In a pilot study of two patients monitored for two years, an international team of researchers slowed the onset of the debilitating brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using a lentiviral vector to introduce a therapeutic gene into patient’s blood cells. Although studies with larger cohorts of patients are needed, these results suggest that gene therapy …

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Government Giveaway of efficient water heaters would be over 200% better than million roof solar program

The US standard tank water heater that uses approximately 4800 kWh per year. Home water heating is the number two residential energy consumption after residential heating and cooling. The average US household uses 920 kwh per month or 11040 kwh per year First for the most bang for the buck, look at simple and cheap …

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