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Aging - predicting - faces.
Aging - predicting - faces.
Stanford robot cooks Cantonese for you (2024)
Boys outperformed by Girls. (2024)
Chip reads brain of paralyzed woman, creates digital speaking for her. (2023)
Pull on cap connected to AI. It turns your thoughts into text. No electrodes. (2023)
How to help 2bn people. Non-toxic, reusable metallic powder disinfects water -- fast! (2023)
Slow aging of intestine, slow whole body.(2023) Also, "youth gene".
MIT wants to make us young again:
Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth. (2022)
Why don't planets, suns, moons and other things in space look like popcorn or cones or you name it, but instead are all Round?
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When we were 9, Alan Turing wondered whether, a hundred years on, you could tell whether you were talking to a person or a computer. |
How are robots (computers) doing? 2023
No pesticides. (2022)
Women may not live longer than men after all --study. "‘Substantial chance’ married or university-educated men outlive women without spouse or high school diploma. (2022)
Time-travel: Tis possible: "The idea is very simple. When I exit the time machine, I exit into a different timeline. In that timeline, I can do whatever I want, including destroying the time machine, without changing anything in the original timeline I came from." Cannot go back and shoot Hitler, but still . . . (2022)
Spiders: lots of brain power. (2021)
Could naked mole rats hold key to curing cancer and dementia? Have unique DNA repair mechanism. Ordinary rodents live to 3 or 4; these can make it to 40 or 50. Cure. (2021)
Biobots. Amazing
video of robotic creatures, even fish. (2021)
And, in this vein: Would you let a robot lawyer defend you?
Swarm robots Bzzzz. (2021)
An Amazonian tribe may have discovered the secret to keeping the brain from aging. (2021)
Tsimane. Researchers examined the brains of a group of volunteers from the Tsimane indigenous people and discovered that their brains atrophy and experience brain volume loss at a 70% slower rate than the average Westerner.
Links to some important recent articles:
Certain blood pressure meds may help protect memory, study says.
Memory
Microbes and solar power ‘could produce 10 times more food than plants.
Produce
Gecko-skin tumors-cancer.
Gecko
The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better. 90% even against variants. Yet lingers in the shadows.
Novavax
How a Sharp-Eyed Scientist Became Biology’s Image Detective.
Detective
Back from the dead: Reviving extinct species may soon be possible.
Revive
Evidence stress does turn your hair gray, and it can be reversed.
Stress
CRISPR gene editing breakthrough could treat many more diseases.
CRISPR
Extinct
The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything.
Silk
That’s because silk is a wondrous fiber. It’s tough, stretchy, and stable under heat and freezing cold. It’s natural and biocompatible, and scientists can collect versions of it from spiders or abundant silkworm cocoons. The military wants it. Private companies want it. Your doctor could soon put it in your body. And you might even eat it.
Indian jumping ants have ability to shrink brain and re-grow it.Brain
‘Better to be born a limpet in the sea than a load bearing donkey’ | (the great) Helen Sullivan
Load
A baboon: their eyes are smaller than their nostrils.
Baboon
US military to trial ‘anti-AGEING pill’ in 2022 to enhance ‘mission readiness of troops’.
Anti-age pill
Potential role of 'junk DNA' sequence in aging, cancer.
Junk
Scientists reverse age-related memory loss in mice.
Reverse
Ecologist’s new book gets at the root of trees’ social lives.
Roots
A Plant That ‘Cannot Die’ Reveals Its Genetic Secrets.
Eternal
Monitoring a Rockstar (Kelp).
Kelp
Bird brains left other dinosaurs behind.
Bird brains
Stinkweed could make a cleaner bio-jet fuel.
Stinkweed
Seafood shells better than plastic.
Crabs, Lobsters
Tiny plastic debris is accumulating far beneath the ocean surface.
Tiny
Neural. Neural networks on a chip.
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Swimming into US WW2 history. Unsung black hero now at last being sung. (2024)
Heard of Misophonia? Slurp!. (2023)
No kill meat eating. Coming to our future. 2023
Wheat after 2 weeks. [left] Pretreated with just water; [right] water has 3% ethanol.
Save the world?
Not just the ocean.
Killing older Americans, even at legal levels.
Dogs can tell when people are lying to them. (2021)
Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells—a key component of our immune system—are able keep on killing as they hunt down and kill cancer cells, repeatedly reloading their toxic weapons. Cancer assassins. (2021)
**Special: Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer accurate enough to be rolled out. Test
Some Border collies can learn names of more than 100 toys. Woof! (2021) Also: Woof2!. (2022)
"I ate lunch in a canalside restaurant in The Hague called Meat Lobby."
Plant meat. Delicious and good.
Science: Bottling of water, transport, disposal of bottles has a wide range of adverse impacts. Tap water is reliably safe all across the US and many other
nations. Bottled water has been found to be no safer than tap water, and in some regions of the US, less reliably safe. Taste tests prove people cannot distinguish bottled from tap.
Research Gate. (2021)
Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals -- even into old age.
Memory. (2021)
Could all your digital photos be stored as DNA? A technique for labeling and retrieving DNA data files from a large pool could help make
this feasible (2021).
DNA filing cabinet. Biological engineers at MIT have demonstrated a way to easily retrieve data files
stored as DNA. This could be a step toward using DNA archives to store enormous quantities of photos, images, and other digital content.
New research optimizes body's own immune system to fight cancer (2021).
Autoimmune. Engineered immune cells used in new cancer therapies can overcome physical
barriers to allow a patient's own immune system to fight tumors. The research could improve cancer therapies in the future for millions of people worldwide.
More about domestication of wild animals than you ever wanted to know. (2021).
Dogs et al.
A different Dienelt. Illinois farmer born 1828 Germany, self-taught microscopist, world class..
Fred.
Chile's first female mycologist. Remarkable!.
Guiliana.
World's shortest man. A remarkable man!.
21.5.
Loaded butterfly: Parasitic wasp lives inside parasitic wasp lives inside fritillary!
Trio.
"Now it looks like (don’t click – don’t do it!)"
Dogs et al.
Fred.
Guiliana.
21.5.
Trio.
° STILL MORE
For special tribute to U of I mental fettle, see Misc.
Lights without wires.
(2024)Right half female, left half male. Colorful (2024)
A picture of half of the world. (2023)
Coronavirus Probably Spread Widely in Deer and Perhaps Back to People. (2023)
Chicago's long-lost cousin discovered in Japan. (Now need find Chicago cousin). (2023)
Note: those sea anemone swimming above have a second set of eyes -- in their mouth! Eyes of a parasitic isopod resident there.
Monarchs.
Chicago family creates butterfly sanctuary.
Prominent vax deniers who've died of covid:
[2021] a) Scott Appley, TX GOP official 8-4; b) Dick Farrel, FL radio host 8-4;
c) Jimmy DeYoung, syndicated TN preacher 8-15; d) Pressley Stutts, SC GOP leader 8-19;
e) Marc Bernier, Daytona Beach radio host 8-28; f) Herman Cain, Anti-mask Trump rally 7-30;
g) Phil Valentine, Nashville radio personality 8-22; h) Bob Enyart, CO radio host 9-13;
i) Marcus Lamb, televangelist 11-30; j) Doug Kuzma, anti-vax podcaster 1-7; k) who's next?
Here are others: Blood on their hands.[2022]
Most not prominent, but very long list.
* More good news: New drug (not Aduhelm/ aducanumab) reinvigorates
mechanism for digesting/recycling unwanted cell proteins. Mice only now, but "drop-off in cellular cleaning that contributes to Alzheimer's in mice also occurs in people."
ScienceDaily.
A Chicagoan: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was a mathematical Manhattan Project standout despite racism.
Chemotherapy-immunotherapy combo may work in lung cancer.
Cell communication called hedgehog signaling is vital for embryonic development. Aberrant activation in multiple cancers —including breast cancer—
results in tunor growth. But an existing drug may help.
Bees -- and flies, even worms -- could possibly detect cancer.
Nanoparticle aids immune system fighting cancer.
Studies reveal source of DNA mutations in melanoma and why some spread.
Breast cancer cells mobilizing the nervous system? Let's use them to inhibit the tumor
Lymphomas can turbo-charge their ability to proliferate by crowding growth-supporting HSP90 protein into tumor cells. An experimental drug inhibits HSP90.
Breathing, exhaling aerosols, bigger spreader of TB than coughing, the traditional villain.
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[2021] a) Scott Appley, TX GOP official 8-4; b) Dick Farrel, FL radio host 8-4; c) Jimmy DeYoung, syndicated TN preacher 8-15; d) Pressley Stutts, SC GOP leader 8-19; e) Marc Bernier, Daytona Beach radio host 8-28; f) Herman Cain, Anti-mask Trump rally 7-30; g) Phil Valentine, Nashville radio personality 8-22; h) Bob Enyart, CO radio host 9-13; i) Marcus Lamb, televangelist 11-30; j) Doug Kuzma, anti-vax podcaster 1-7; k) who's next?
Here are others: Blood on their hands.[2022] Most not prominent, but very long list.
* More good news: New drug (not Aduhelm/ aducanumab) reinvigorates mechanism for digesting/recycling unwanted cell proteins. Mice only now, but "drop-off in cellular cleaning that contributes to Alzheimer's in mice also occurs in people." ScienceDaily.
Bees -- and flies, even worms -- could possibly detect cancer.
Nanoparticle aids immune system fighting cancer.
Studies reveal source of DNA mutations in melanoma and why some spread.
Breast cancer cells mobilizing the nervous system? Let's use them to inhibit the tumor
Lymphomas can turbo-charge their ability to proliferate by crowding growth-supporting HSP90 protein into tumor cells. An experimental drug inhibits HSP90.
Breathing, exhaling aerosols, bigger spreader of TB than coughing, the traditional villain.
