Imagine a world where we could make machines at nanometer scale, the width of a single DNA strand. “With the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies capable of designing and anticipating protein structures, the near-term prospect for synthesized molecules in industry […]
“Last year, Monash University scientists created the “DishBrain” – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.” ~ learn more
Note that this is a study done in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, so it’s an imperfect proxy for humans. But it’s probably a safe bet that resistance training doesn’t harm! “After four weeks of training, the mice with […]
“Researchers have developed a novel way of detecting brain cancer, using nanowires to ‘catch-and-release’ DNA in urine, enabling them to detect mutations that signify the presence of a brain tumor. Their method may one day mean that invasive tissue biopsies […]
“The team found that the streamlined cell can evolve just as fast as a normal cell—demonstrating the capacity for organisms to adapt, even with an unnatural genome that would seemingly provide little flexibility.” ~ learn more
A study followed 3,247 patients over 10 years “found that those with the highest loneliness scores were 26% more likely than those with the lowest scores to fall prey to the illness.” ~ learn more
“The huge size improvement opens up many applications, particularly in biomedical imaging.” ~ learn more
“The result showed that the babies who had received their mother’s microbiota from their mother’s vaginal fluids showed more of that bacteria in their gut, suggesting that the method of seeding used by the researchers effectively reached and colonized the […]
I just finished a book about expectations and their potent effects (including the placebo effect) so this is timely reinforcement for me. With 347 study participants, “The study found that, at six weeks, participants who received opioids didn’t have better […]
“[Ross and Hugo Turner] monitored their bodies over a three month fitness challenge to understand if training twice as much offered twice the results.” ~ learn more