^ A game changer if it pans out but as the article points out, who knows if that is really the case.
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^ A game changer if it pans out but as the article points out, who knows if that is really the case.
Super massive Black Holes eat dark matter
https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-sh...e-supermassive
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...med-so-quickly
We do seem to be getting very close to the promised land of viable solid-state batteries. There was another reported "breakthrough" earlier this year that I'm pretty sure was discussed in this thread:
https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/g...ery-technology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesco.../#fe57ee14e629
Rad.Quote:
Originally Posted by k2skier112
Oh for poop sake .... the "jesus" battery?!?! Son of the God Particle??
Bacteria engineered to produce inorganic semiconductors vastly outperform plants converting solar energy
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-cyborg...compounds.html
Multiple dwarf planets beyond Neptune have rings.
http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...htmlstory.html
Magic mushrooms 'reboot' brain in depressed people – study
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...d-people-study
Magic mushrooms may effectively “reset” the activity of key brain circuits known to play a role in depression, the latest study to highlight the therapeutic benefits of psychadelics suggests.
Psychadelics have shown promising results in the treatment of depression and addictions in a number of clinical trials over the last decade. Imperial College London researchers used psilocybin – the psychoactive compound that occurs naturally in magic mushrooms – to treat a small number of patients with depression, monitoring their brain function, before and after.
Images of patients’ brains revealed changes in brain activity that were associated with marked and lasting reductions in depressive symptoms and participants in the trial reported benefits lasting up to five weeks after treatment.https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/73368...sm=12&fit=max&
Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial, who led the study, said: “We have shown for the first time clear changes in brain activity in depressed people treated with psilocybin after failing to respond to conventional treatments.
“Several of our patients described feeling ‘reset’ after the treatment and often used computer analogies. For example, one said he felt like his brain had been ‘defragged’ like a computer hard drive, and another said he felt ‘rebooted’.
Missing baryons found: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...-missing-atoms
Cool astronomy...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-neutron-stars
Intermittent fasting promotes conversion of white fat to brown fat and boosts thermogenesis
https://www.nature.com/cr/journal/va...r2017126a.html
Engineered protein causes obese mice, rats, and macaque monkeys to consume less food and lose weight, as well as lower cholesterol and insulin levels in the blood.
https://www.seeker.com/health/biotec...ls-shed-weight
Not new but cool nonetheless. Dinosaur mummy. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/w...oil-sands.html
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017...superJumbo.jpg
Mars RSLs are probably not water
http://www.popularmechanics.com/spac...and-not-water/
You guys hip to Oumuamua?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...p-to-oumuamua/
CRISPR successfully used to modify gene expression in mice without making edits to the DNA itself
http://beta.latimes.com/science/scie...207-story.html
Spermatozoa- the new manual laborers in novel cancer-treatment paradigms(notice I didn't call 'em Micro-Mexicans!).
https://www.newscientist.com/article...-cancer-cells/
Four-armed magnetic harness for each individual sperm???? That's more impressive than the cancer therapy!
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-partnership/
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/201...treat-disease/
Some next level shit announced by my company in partnership with Microsoft today. This has always been our end goal but this (and a lot of hard science, AI power, and luck) will hopefully make it a reality. Basically, your immune system has a record of every disease you have and have ever had. Right now, the record is there and Adaptive is good at reading the record, but we can’t really understand the meaning. This project is basically using a shit ton of (Microsoft provided) AI/Machine Learning power, running on their cloud infrastructure of course, to decode that record and understand it. If we can do that, pretty much everything we know about diagnosing, monitoring, and even treating, well pretty much everything, drastically changes.
That's cool, but why no blockchain?Quote:
Originally Posted by LegoSkier
The immune system is, like, the blockchain of the body, man.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Suit
Sick people have more blocks calculated -> sick people are worth more -> their bills get coveredQuote:
Originally Posted by zartagen
Or something.
Still that's a cool project!
Call me super skeptical. Given the diversity of immune response as represented by T and B cell variability even to the same antigen or peptide, the training set for this is going to have to be beyond enormous. Hell, across similar tumor types there's a dramatic lack of neo-epitope sharing.
What he said.
Whatever it was......
Yeah. This is far from a sure thing. We have a process that works at small scale (even across a sample population) but we don't truly know if it will work across the greater population or across many antigens. Hence the need for Microsoft to scale this. For sure this is going to be processing data at a truly bizarre level. If successful in the future there will be many acres of server farms dedicated to this.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
Go get em! Is your process published? Would love to see a little more around the approach.Quote:
Originally Posted by LegoSkier
Not all of it. This is the piece that is: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0141561Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
Damn, Lego, that is some truly next-level stuff.
Did anyone else see the articles that came out recently about the "gravitostat" discovery? I normally find non-human obesity studies pretty boring, but this one is an exception. Researchers implanted rats and mice with weights equivalent to 15% of their body weight. Within a couple weeks they had lost an amount of body fat equivalent to the weight of the implants and returned to their pre-implant weight. Weight loss was solely the result of reduced food intake; the animals did not increase their physical activity. They got the same results using leptin-knockout mice, but not with mice deficient in osteocytes. Thus, our bones appear to have an osteocyte-dependent internal scale that regulates body fat storage and appetite independent of leptin. Pretty cool, and further evidence that the best way to not get fat is to sit on your ass as little as possible.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320498.php
"In 87 of 90 mice, the cancers were eradicated."
"I don't think there's a limit to the type of tumor we could potentially treat, as long as it has been infiltrated by the immune system," Dr. Levy stated.
https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-...d-far/81255449
Paging huckbucket, LegoSkier.... As presented, this sounds like quite a breakthrough.
Sounds too good to be true. I hope it's not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
It's all wood and cool.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-s-super-wood/
"Although Hu and his team have sought to enhance wood’s strength, other researchers have pursued more unusual goals—such as making it transparent."
That data was published in another form more than 15 years ago and then tested in in humans not long after. Concept holds merit but didn't translate. The latest version you linked used a slightly different approach, but may still be stymied by the disconnect in biology between humans and mice. Case in point, the tumors that are being challenged in that study are exceptionally immunogenic and look unlike most human tumors. It's likely one reason why the response was so strong. Still interesting though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Existence of Ice-7 confirmed in a surprise discovery using x-rays to examine deeply-formed diamonds:
http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...308-story.html
More deep geo:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25972
Godspeed. We will all eventually be constituent mass and energy.
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Guy pushed tech more then Gates and Jobs combined.
In many ways.
I don't think Godspeed is a proper sendoff.
May you be sucked into a massive vortex of death and life would be more validating, I would guess.
Hawking's final paper suggests a method to experimentally prove the existence of the multiverse
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...al-multiverse/
Technical version. I'm pretty sure it's in english, but I have doubts.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/0...ce-in-cmb.html
Apparently, it also predicts that the ultimate fate of our universe is heat death, which is a tad depressing.
I used to love watching some of those Susskind/Stanford "dumbed down" physics lectures on youtube, even after realizing I just had to take 80% of what he was saying as a given because it was that far over my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
I have an ex who found the heat death of the universe comforting. I disagreedQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman