Materials science is just cool…
Method assembles cellulose nanofibres into a material stronger than spider silk
— Read on phys.org/news/2018-05-method-cellulose-nanofibres-material-stronger.html
A stealthy Harvard startup wants to reverse aging in dogs, and humans could be next – MIT Technology Review
The real story is that serious people are chasing this…
Biologist George Church says the idea is to live to 130 in the body of a 22-year-old.
— Read on www.technologyreview.com/s/611018/a-stealthy-harvard-startup-wants-to-reverse-aging-in-dogs-and-humans-could-be-next/
Tissue-engineered human pancreatic cells successfully treat diabetic mice
Still a long way to a cure… but take what we can get…
Tissue-engineered human pancreatic cells successfully treat diabetic mice
— Read on medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-tissue-engineered-human-pancreatic-cells-successfully.html
How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices – Economic Research
Futures is a truth-seeking market…
How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices – Economic Research
— Read on www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2018/may/how-futures-trading-changed-bitcoin-prices/amp/
Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory
Great work here… make your kids read it.
Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory
— Read on lukemuehlhauser.com/three-wild-speculations-from-amateur-quantitative-macrohistory/
A transplant of CRISPR-edited liver cells could replace lifelong injections for hemophilia B patients | FierceBiotech
More CRISPR magic…
A Salk Institute team found transplanting liver cells into hemophilic mice restored their ability to form blood clots. The hope is that this one-and-done treatment could replace the frequent injections of clotting factors currently used to treat the inherited blood disorder.
— Read on www.fiercebiotech.com/research/a-liver-cell-transplant-could-replace-lifelong-injections-for-hemophilia-b-patients
Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum | University of Michigan News
More to come…
By treating these states as ordinary 1 and 0, it could be possible to create a new kind of “lightwave” computer with the million-times-faster clock speeds that Kira mentioned. The first challenge along this route will be to use a train of laser pulses to “flip” the pseudospins at will.
— Read on news.umich.edu/light-could-make-semiconductor-computers-a-million-times-faster-or-even-go-quantum/
EE Times – AI Revives In-Memory Processors
This silicon acceleration is fuel to the AI race. It is happening at all levels.. physics is giving quantum paths and optics, material science is giving us substrates, CompSci is giving us structural reorganization of logic, even biology is opening logic worlds to us… it’s gonna be a crazy ride.
The rise of machine learning is giving renewed life to compute-in-memory processors now in the works at startups, IBM, and universities.
— Read on www.eetimes.com/document.asp
Research finds ‘Achilles heel’ for aggressive prostate cancer
Research finds ‘Achilles heel’ for aggressive prostate cancer
— Read on medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-achilles-heel-aggressive-prostate-cancer.html
US regulatory thumbs up brings small modular nuclear reactors a step closer
This could be huge…. if…
The first small modular reactor (SMR) application has passed an intensive Phase 1 review by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The okay for NuScale Power means that plans can progress on a 12-module plant scheduled to go online in Idaho in the middle of the next decade.
— Read on newatlas.com/us-green-light-small-modular-reactor/54448/