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    So many discoveries in batteries....

    I still maintain: a good battery will change the world... this is a great step in that direction.

    Quote All powered up
    UCI chemists create battery technology with off-the-charts charging capacity

    ON APRIL 20, 2016
    Irvine, Calif., April 20, 2016 — University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would never require replacement. The breakthrough work could lead to commercial batteries with greatly lengthened lifespans for computers, smartphones, appliances, cars and spacecraft.

    Scientists have long sought to use nanowires in batteries. Thousands of times thinner than a human hair, they’re highly conductive and feature a large surface area for the storage and transfer of electrons. However, these filaments are extremely fragile and don’t hold up well to repeated discharging and recharging, or cycling. In a typical lithium-ion battery, they expand and grow brittle, which leads to cracking.

    UCI researchers have solved this problem by coating a gold nanowire in a manganese dioxide shell and encasing the assembly in an electrolyte made of a Plexiglas-like gel. The combination is reliable and resistant to failure.

    The study leader, UCI doctoral candidate Mya Le Thai, cycled the testing electrode up to 200,000 times over three months without detecting any loss of capacity or power and without fracturing any nanowires. The findings were published today in the American Chemical Society’s Energy Letters.

    Hard work combined with serendipity paid off in this case, according to senior author Reginald Penner.

    “Mya was playing around, and she coated this whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it,” said Penner, chair of UCI’s chemistry department. “She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity.”

    “That was crazy,” he added, “because these things typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most.”

    The researchers think the goo plasticizes the metal oxide in the battery and gives it flexibility, preventing cracking.

    “The coated electrode holds its shape much better, making it a more reliable option,” Thai said. “This research proves that a nanowire-based battery electrode can have a long lifetime and that we can make these kinds of batteries a reality.”

    The study was conducted in coordination with the Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Maryland, with funding from the Basic Energy Sciences division of the U.S. Department of Energy.

    About the University of California, Irvine: Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, UCI is the youngest member of the prestigious Association of American Universities. The campus has produced three Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UCI has more than 30,000 students and offers 192 degree programs. It’s located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $4.8 billion annually to the local economy. For more on UCI, visit www.uci.edu.

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    A shame this is buried on page 9... this is a H U G E advancement.... the first real step to biological immortality.

    Quote FIRST GENE THERAPY SUCCESSFUL AGAINST HUMAN AGING

    American woman gets biologically younger after gene therapies

    Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of Bioviva USA Inc. has become the first human being to be successfully rejuvenated by gene therapy, after her own company’s experimental therapies reversed 20 years of normal telomere shortening.

    Telomere score is calculated according to telomere length of white blood cells (T-lymphocytes). This result is based on the average T-lymphocyte telomere length compared to the American population at the same age range. The higher the telomere score, the “younger” the cells.

    In September 2015, then 44 year-old CEO of BioViva USA Inc. Elizabeth Parrish received two of her own company’s experimental gene therapies: one to protect against loss of muscle mass with age, another to battle stem cell depletion responsible for diverse age-related diseases and infirmities.

    The treatment was originally intended to demonstrate the safety of the latest generation of the therapies. But if early data is accurate, it is already the world’s first successful example of telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual. Gene therapy has been used to lengthen telomeres before in cultured cells and in mice, but never in a human patient.

    Telomeres are short segments of DNA which cap the ends of every chromosome, acting as ‘buffers’ against wear and tear. They shorten with every cell division, eventually getting too short to protect the chromosome, causing the cell to malfunction and the body to age.

    In September 2015, telomere data taken from Parrish’s white blood cells by SpectraCell‘s specialised clinical testing laboratory in Houston, Texas, immediately before therapies were administered, revealed that Parrish’s telomeres were unusually short for her age, leaving her vulnerable to age-associated diseases earlier in life.

    In March 2016, the same tests were taken again by SpectraCell revealed that her telomeres had lengthened by approximately 20 years, from 6.71kb to 7.33kb. This implies that Parrish’s white blood cells (leukocytes) have become biologically younger. These findings were independently verified by the Brussels-based non-profit HEALES (HEalthy Life Extension Company), and the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK-based charity committed to combating age-related diseases.


    Parrish’s reaction: “Current therapeutics offer only marginal benefits for people suffering from diseases of aging. Additionally, lifestyle modification has limited impact for treating these diseases. Advances in biotechnology is the best solution, and if these results are anywhere near accurate, we’ve made history”, Parrish said.

    Bioviva will continue to monitor Parrish’s blood for months and years to come. Meanwhile, BioViva will be testing new gene therapies and combination gene therapies to restore age related damage. It remains to be seen whether the success in leukocytes can expanded to other tissues and organs, and repeated in future patients. For now all the answers lie in the cells of Elizabeth Parrish, ‘patient zero’ of restorative gene therapy.

    Since her first gene therapy injections BioViva has received global interest from both the scientific and investment communities. Earlier this month BioViva became a portfolio company of Deep Knowledge Life Sciences (DKLS), a London-based investment fund which aims to accelerate the development of biotechnologies for healthy longevity.

    Dmitry Kaminskiy, founding partner of DKLS, said “BioViva has the potential to create breakthroughs in human gene therapy research, while leapfrogging companies in the biotech market.”
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    Artificial stingray is 'living robot'
    8 July 2016


    Scientists have designed a robotic stingray that could help our understanding of the
    human heart.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36748076

    Introducing robo-ray: part animal, part machine

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/technolog...l-part-machine

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    Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)


    Artificial stingray is 'living robot'
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    Sounds like a transhumanists wet dream... kind of creepy.

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    Fillings that heal your teeth – how regenerative medicine could change your visit to the dentist


    01 Jul 2016 10:43:38.107

    A team behind regenerative dental fillings that could help heal teeth have been awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry prize.
    Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed therapeutic synthetic, light-curable, biomaterials for dental treatments that support native dental stem cells inside teeth to repair and regenerate dentin.

    The approach could significantly impact millions of dental patients each year by dental fillings that help heal teeth when they are injured from dental disease or dental surgery.

    The research won second prize in the materials category of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technologies Competition 2016.

    Dr Adam Celiz, Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, said: “Existing dental fillings are toxic to cells and are therefore incompatible with pulp tissue inside the tooth. In cases of dental pulp disease and injury a root canal is typically performed to remove the infected tissues.

    “We have designed synthetic biomaterials that can be used similarly to dental fillings but can be placed in direct contact with pulp tissue to stimulate the native stem cell population for repair and regeneration of pulp tissue and the surrounding dentin. Our approach has great promise to impact the dental field and this prize provides a great platform to develop this technology further with industrial partners.”
    https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pr...our-teeth.aspx

    Using fillings that aren't toxic and promote healing? why did this take so long...
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    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...eap-solar-cell

    Solar cell spray paint is coming soon. I can totally see maglev train systems that are high speed and generate more power than they use. From what I am gathering, once this tech is workable, it will be way cheaper than solar cells.

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    Quote Posted by PurpleLama (here)
    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...eap-solar-cell

    Solar cell spray paint is coming soon. I can totally see maglev train systems that are high speed and generate more power than they use. From what I am gathering, once this tech is workable, it will be way cheaper than solar cells.
    I think the solar systems we have now will be looked on as very primitive.. we are finding so many ways to improve


    Temperature effects them, something was found for that

    the raw materials used have been improved,when we thought they were at their limit

    there are now ways to capture even MORE of the light spectrum for around 30% more efficency

    Novels ways of making heat, as well as power have been discovered (very large scale implementations)


    we are making ORGANIC solar panels


    We are even genetically modifying viruses to take advantage of quantum weirdness that is photosynthesis (which is nearly 100% conversion from light to energy)


    Pretty amazing field to work in I imagine.
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    we are in for an interesting world in the near future....
    Quote 7-Eleven delivers by drone in Reno including, yes, Slurpees


    7-Eleven Inc. and a tech startup called Flirtey have beaten Amazon to the punch in making the first drone delivery to a customer’s home in the U.S.

    Most already know 7-Eleven, the convenience store retail chain that boasts about 10,800 stores in North America and 59,500 in total around the world.

    Flirtey is a privately held company based in Reno, Nevada, which builds and operates drones to make deliveries that are needed in humanitarian and health work, retail and food industries.

    Rather than adapting existing unmanned aerial vehicles, Flirtey builds its own, develops the software to run them, and creates proprietary packaging and containers to keep items secure during delivery, according to CEO Matt Sweeney.

    During the 7-Eleven delivery, which took place in Reno, Nevada on July 10th, Flirtey successfully transported: Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, donuts, hot coffee and candy to the home of the family who placed the order.

    While 7-Eleven is thought of as a brick and mortar franchise, the company does actually allow online ordering and delivery through services like Postmates, Tapingo and others. Drones would comprise a futuristic expansion of 7-Eleven’s delivery business.

    And delivery by drone is something 7-Eleven intends to offer widely in the future, according to 7-Eleven EVP and Chief Merchandising Officer Jesus H. Delgado-Jenkins. He declined to put a specific date on the launch of such a service, citing a shifting regulatory environment.

    Drone delivery could prove especially useful to families with children who cannot easily leave the house when they have an urgent need for items like over the counter medicines or milk, Delgado-Jenkins said.

    To find customers willing to have their order handled by a flying robot, the companies surveyed households within a one-mile radius of the store from which they planned to deliver.

    Flirtey’s CEO Matt Sweeney said, “When I moved to the U.S. two years ago, only one company had a 333 exemption to do this and that was in the Arctic!”

    He sees the milestone delivery as a sign of “rapid progress” not just for his company but the drone industry.

    Indeed, broad changes are ahead for the drones industry in the U.S.

    The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is expected to put new rules into effect in late August that allow the operation of small, unmanned aircraft in the national airspace.

    And the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2016, which passed both houses this month, requires the FAA to develop drone delivery rules, and to conduct research on “BVOS” or beyond the visual line of sight flying of drones.
    https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/22/7-...-yes-slurpees/
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    Great breakdown on crisper & how it will dramatically change our society.

    If you were fuzzy on it before, this should clear things up:
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    Well that didn't take long... any one care to speculate on how long it is until it's nearly illegal to drive your self? (my guess 15+ years... though maybe sooner)

    Quote World's first self-driving taxis debut in Singapore

    The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.

    Select members of the public will be able to hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy says it will be the first to offer rides to the public. It will beat ride-hailing service Uber, which plans to offer rides in autonomous cars in Pittsburgh, by a few weeks.

    The service will start small — six cars now, growing to a dozen by the end of the year. The ultimate goal, say nuTonomy officials, is to have a fully self-driving taxi fleet in Singapore by 2018, which will help sharply cut the number of cars on Singapore's congested roads. Eventually, the model could be adopted in cities around the world, nuTonomy says.

    For now, the taxis only will run in a 2.5-square-mile business and residential district called "one-north," and pick-ups and drop-offs will be limited to specified locations. And riders must have an invitation from nuTonomy to use the service. The company says dozens have signed up for the launch, and it plans to expand that list to thousands of people within a few months.


    The cars — modified Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-MiEV electrics — have a driver in front who is prepared to take back the wheel and a researcher in back who watches the car's computers. Each car is fitted with six sets of Lidar — a detection system that uses lasers to operate like radar — including one that constantly spins on the roof. There are also two cameras on the dashboard to scan for obstacles and detect changes in traffic lights.

    The testing time-frame is open-ended, said nuTonomy CEO Karl Iagnemma. Eventually, riders may start paying for the service, and more pick-up and drop-off points will be added. NuTonomy also is working on testing similar taxi services in other Asian cities as well as in the U.S. and Europe, but he wouldn't say when.

    "I don't expect there to be a time where we say, 'We've learned enough,'" Iagnemma said.

    Doug Parker, nuTonomy's chief operating officer, said autonomous taxis could ultimately reduce the number of cars on Singapore's roads from 900,000 to 300,000.

    "When you are able to take that many cars off the road, it creates a lot of possibilities. You can create smaller roads, you can create much smaller car parks," Parker said. "I think it will change how people interact with the city going forward."

    NuTonomy, a 50-person company with offices in Massachusetts and Singapore, was formed in 2013 by Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who were studying robotics and developing autonomous vehicles for the Defense Department. Earlier this year, the company was the first to win approval from Singapore's government to test self-driving cars in one-north. NuTonomy announced a research partnership with Singapore's Land Transport Authority earlier this month.

    Singapore is ideal because it has good weather, great infrastructure and drivers who tend to obey traffic rules, Iagnemma says. As a land-locked island, Singapore is looking for non-traditional ways to grow its economy, so it's been supportive of autonomous vehicle research.

    Auto supplier Delphi Corp., which is also working on autonomous vehicle software, was recently selected to test autonomous vehicles on the island and plans to start next year.

    "We face constraints in land and manpower. We want to take advantage of self-driving technology to overcome such constraints, and in particular to introduce new mobility concepts which could bring about transformational improvements to public transport in Singapore," said Pang Kin Keong, Singapore's Permanent Secretary for Transport and the chairman of its committee on autonomous driving.

    Olivia Seow, 25, who does work in startup partnerships in one-north and is one of the riders nuTonomy selected, took a test ride of just less than a mile on Monday. She acknowledged she was nervous when she got into the car, and then surprised as she watched the steering wheel turn by itself.

    "It felt like there was a ghost or something," she said.

    But she quickly grew more comfortable. The ride was smooth and controlled, she said, and she was relieved to see that the car recognized even small obstacles like birds and motorcycles parked in the distance.

    "I couldn't see them with my human eye, but the car could, so I knew that I could trust the car," she said. She said she is excited because the technology could free up her time during commutes or help her father by driving him around as he grows older.

    An Associated Press reporter taking a ride Wednesday observed that the safety driver had to step on the brakes once, when a car was obstructing the test car's lane and another vehicle, which appeared to be parked, suddenly began moving in the oncoming lane.

    Iagnemma said the company is confident that its software can make good decisions. The company hopes its leadership in autonomous driving will eventually lead to partnerships with automakers, tech companies, logistics companies and others.

    "What we're finding is the number of interested parties is really overwhelming," he said
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    Not new tech but this came up on U'tube link I was on
    and I clicked on for curiosity , and if its genuine could
    save on metals especially if the paper could be coated
    with something.

    Can Paper Cut Wood?



    Published on 21 Aug 2016
    Thought I'd give this a try, just to see what would happen.
    Kind of gives a new meaning to thin kerf blade!

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    On the other hand !!


    Australians embracing super-human microchip technology

    By David on 25 August 2016 GMT Microchipping



    ‘It may sound like sci-fi, but hundreds of Australians are turning themselves
    into super-humans who can unlock doors, turn on lights and log into computers
    with a wave of the hand.Shanti Korporaal, from Sydney, is at the centre of the
    phenomenon after having two implants inserted under her skin.

    Now she can get into work and her car without carrying a card or keys, and says
    ultimate goal is to completely do away with her wallet and cards.’





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    Quote Posted by TargeT (here)
    Well that didn't take long... any one care to speculate on how long it is until it's nearly illegal to drive your self? (my guess 15+ years... though maybe sooner)
    Already in the US... that was quicker than I thought it would be... this could be a HUGE thing in the next 2 years... I used UBR for the first time in Dallas recently, it was amazing and less than half the price of a taxi.
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    Spotted: A Self-Driving Uber in Pittsburgh

    Hey, look! Pictures of self-driving Ubers are starting to emerge from Pittsburgh. Uber announced the launch earlier this month. While the cars do indeed drive themselves, there’s still going to be a human at the wheel. Which is probably a good idea!

    Uber is partnering with Volvo to roll out these self-driving cars. This is it folks. This is a glimpse of our future dystopian hellscape. Soak it up. Enjoy it.
    http://gizmodo.com/spotted-a-self-dr...rgh-1785791976
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    You will know this has been brewing for decades but seems to be
    ramping up recently in the current world . ( who knows how far
    they have got in the black world ? ). The best way to accelerate
    anything is a arms race.....

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    ‘Terminators’ will be built by our enemies, says top US military chief

    By David on 27 August 2016 GMT




    ‘The future of war will involve autonomous robots instead of humans, according to Air
    Force General and Vice Chair of the Joint of Chiefs of Staff Paul Selva, who warned
    enemies could build “Terminator”-like machines to fight in battlefields.

    Speaking at the think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in
    Washington, Selva said the technology could be developed in 10 years – and that the
    world’s biggest military should punish anyone who pursues such weapons.

    “This is about an entirely robotic system, completely autonomous, [that is] not dependent
    on the human decision,” Selva said. “We’re told by the technologists that we’re a decade
    or so away from that capability.”’

    Read more: ‘Terminators’ will be built by our enemies, says top US military chief

    https://www.rt.com/usa/357315-termin...ampaign=chrome

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    The Emerging ‘Mark of the Beast’ System

    By David on 27 August 2016 GMT




    The Emerging ‘Mark of the Beast’ System



    Mark of the beast Steven Tritton, New Dawn
    Waking Times

    “Sleepwalking into the Surveillance Society”

    Modern technology has created a brave new electronic and borderless world.
    Surveillance and biometric capturing technologies have advanced significantly in
    recent years. ID programs have modernised with the likes of ID smartcards linked
    to huge databases enabling fast and secure electronic authentication among other
    surveillance functions.

    http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/08/2...-beast-system/
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    drones tuned to hunt
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    luckily, for now; RFID is super super short range.
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    NATURAL NEWS...

    Doctors make history by 'jump-starting' coma patient's brain with new technology

    Monday, August 29, 2016 by: Vicki Batts




    (NaturalNews) Scientists from UCLA recently performed a groundbreaking procedure
    that brought a 25-year-old man back to life. The anonymous man is the first coma
    patient to regain consciousness without having to undergo a dangerous and
    life-threatening surgery.

    Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/055126_co...#ixzz4InJvyZr2

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    Now the cat videos will come even faster to our personal tracking devices!

    Quote New digital antenna could revolutionize the future of mobile phones
    Combining several antenna elements into a single antenna speeds up data transfer and improves reception and efficiency


    Aalto University's Radio Science and Engineering researchers have developed a method that allows antennas to make the shift from the analogue to the digital world. The antennas currently in use are mostly based on technology developed half a century ago.

    'Traditionally one antenna works with either one or a few different frequencies. Now we can take advantage of advanced digital electronics and combine several small antenna elements to work together as one antenna that can be made to operate digitally with any frequency. In this way, many smartphone applications like GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will no longer need their own antennas. Instead, all of the phone's data transfer can take place through one digitally controlled antenna. This in turn makes phone design easier and enables a larger screen size relative to phone size as the antenna does not require so much space', explains doctoral candidate Jari-Matti Hannula.

    The new antenna also makes it possible to reach the data transfer speed set as the objective for the next generation of phones, which is 100 to 1000 times faster than that of current phones. In addition, battery life will be improved owing to the greater efficiency of the new method.

    Antenna control requires new technology

    Thanks to the new method, the antenna can have even greater bandwidth, which leads to a higher data transfer speed and improved efficiency. These new antennas may also dispose of the analogue components that traditional antennas use to tune into the desired frequency. This facilitates antenna design and enables the creation of more compact antennas with better radiation efficiency.

    With antennas designed using the standard technology, it is possible to obtain either a broad frequency range or high efficiency, but not both at the same time. Antennas' radiation efficiency has in recent times been falling because the frequency range used by mobile phones has been continuously increasing. Poor radiation efficiency leads to a short transmission range, for which network operators are then forced to compensate with a denser network of base stations. Energy is wasted in both the phone and the base station. In addition, increasing the network density is expensive.

    Professor of Radio Engineering Ville Viikari believes that the new method will revolutionise the fifth generation of mobile phones and maintain Finland as one of the leading countries in the development of mobile phone antennas. For example, the antenna type developed by the Department of Radio Science and Engineering at the beginning of the 21st century is the main type in use in current phones. Now is the time to forge the solutions for a new generation of mobile devices.

    'The next step in the development process is under way with the commencement of tests in cooperation with Huawei using fifth generation mobile phone devices. We are also developing together with Aalto University researchers digital electronic systems for controlling the antennas', Mr Viikari adds.
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    Spa day at the plasma baths anyone?

    Quote Cold plasma will heal non-healing wounds

    Russian scientists have found that treating cells with cold plasma leads to their regeneration and rejuvenation. This result can be used to develop a plasma therapy program for patients with non-healing wounds. The paper has been published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
    Non-healing wounds make it more difficult to provide effective treatment to patients and are therefore a serious problem faced by doctors. These wounds can be caused by damage to blood vessels in the case of diabetes, failure of the immune system resulting from an HIV infection or cancers, or slow cell division in elderly people. Treatment of non-healing wounds by conventional methods is very difficult, and in some cases impossible.

    Cold atmospheric-pressure plasma refers to a partially ionized gas—the proportion of charged particles in the gas is close to 1 percent, with a temperature below 100,000 K. Its application in biology and medicine is possible through the advent of plasma sources generating jets at 30-40?°C.

    An earlier study established the bactericidal properties of low-temperature plasma, as well as the relatively high resistance of cells and tissues to its influence. The results of plasma treatment of patients with non-healing wounds varied from positive to neutral. The authors' previous work prompted them to investigate the possibility that the effect of plasma treatment on wound healing could depend on application pattern (the interval between applications and the total number of applications).

    Two types of cells were used in this study: fibroblasts (connective tissue cells) and keratinocytes (epithelial cells). Both play a central role in wound healing.


    The effect of plasma treatment on cells was measured. In fibroblast samples, the number of cells increased by 42.6 percent after one application (A) and by 32 percent after two applications (B), as compared to the untreated controls. While no signs of DNA breaks were detected following plasma application, an accumulation of cells in the active phases of the cell cycle was observed, alongside a prolonged growth phase (30 hours). This means that the effect of plasma could be characterized as regenerative, as opposed to harmful.
    The proliferation of cells that had been treated daily over a period of three days (group C) was reduced by 29 percent relative to the controls. Keratinocytes did not show noticeable changes in proliferation.

    The researchers also performed an assay of the senescence-associated β-galactosidase, which is measured at pH 6.0. The concentration of this enzyme in a cell increases with age. Plasma treatment significantly reduced the content of this substance in the samples. This, together with a prolonged exponential growth phase of the culture, suggests a functional activation of cells—their rejuvenation.

    "The positive response to plasma treatment that we observed could be linked to the activation of a natural destructive mechanism called autophagy, which removes damaged organelles from the cell and reactivates cellular metabolic processes," says Elena Petersen, a co-author of the paper and the head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Technologies at MIPT.

    The scientists are planning additional research into the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of plasma on cells. They also aim to determine the influence of a patient's age on the effectiveness of plasma therapy.
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    Uhh, yeah creeeeeeeepy tech...

    But hey, adaptive ads that know to change music to manipulate you are cool, right?

    Quote New Tech Uses WiFi to Read Your Inner Emotions – Accurately, and From Afar

    You may have the best poker face in the world. You may choose to keep your feelings close because you consider your emotions nobody’s business but your own. Or maybe you don’t think it’s smart to give too much away. No matter — a team of researchers has developed a system that can read your hidden excitement, happiness, anger, or sadness. With or without your cooperation.

    It’s called “EQ-Radio,” and it’s the creation of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). They claim it’s accurate 87% of the time. It reads your feelings by bouncing ordinary WiFi signals off of you that can track your heart rate. There are no on-skin sensors involved with EQ-Radio.

    WiFi is a two-way form of communication: Your router carries internet data to your laptop, which then transmits data back to the router en route to the internet. An EQ-Radio measures the speed at which data completes a round trip to its target — for example, you — and analyzes fluctuations in that speed to measure your heart rate. It’s your heart rate that gives away your emotional state.
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    Uhh, yeah creeeeeeeepy tech...

    But hey, adaptive ads that know to change music to manipulate you are cool, right?

    Quote New Tech Uses WiFi to Read Your Inner Emotions – Accurately, and From Afar

    You may have the best poker face in the world. You may choose to keep your feelings close because you consider your emotions nobody’s business but your own. Or maybe you don’t think it’s smart to give too much away. No matter — a team of researchers has developed a system that can read your hidden excitement, happiness, anger, or sadness. With or without your cooperation.
    Oh, now putting their claims to one side for the moment, if the information in the video is correct then they are only able to "accurately" test for a TINY proportion of Human Emotions eh ?


    But I suppose, given more time with each test subject, their "Machine Learning Algo" will possibly be able to differentiate Emotions more precisely eh ? Though I suspect having each test subject speak is likely to be even more revealing of their fluctuating "inner state"

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    I wasn't sure how the "super bug" thing was going to be fixed... that alone could have put us back into the dark ages... but this... wow, nice!

    Quote The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance
    Could this be the end of superbugs?

    A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

    The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a "fundamental threat" to global health.
    Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

    In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about to become resistant to all remaining drugs.

    But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

    "We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways," Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. "One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself."

    The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it's already being hailed by scientists in the field as "a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine".

    Before we get too carried away, it's still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.
    But in all experiments, they've been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don't seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

    The polymers - which they call SNAPPs, or structurally nanoengineered antimicrobial peptide polymers - work by directly attacking, penetrating, and then destabilising the cell membrane of bacteria.

    Unlike antibiotics, which 'poison' bacteria, and can also affect healthy cells in the area, the SNAPPs that Lam has designed are so large that they don't seem to affect healthy cells at all.

    "With this polymerised peptide we are talking the difference in scale between a mouse and an elephant," Lam's supervisor, Greg Qiao, told Marcus Strom from the Sydney Morning Herald. "The large peptide molecules can't enter the [healthy] cells."

    You can see the SNAPPs (green) surrounding and ripping apart bacterial cells below:

    While the results are positive so far, it's too early to get excited about what this could mean for humans, says Cyrille Boyer from the University of New South Wales in Australia, who wasn't involved in the research.

    "The main advantage seems to be they can kill bacteria more effectively and selectively [than other peptides]" Boyer told Strom, before adding that the team is a long way off clinical applications.

    But what's awesome about the new project is that, while other teams are looking for new antibiotics, Lam has found a completely different approach. And it could make all the different in the coming 'post-antibiotic world'.

    That's what she's hoping, anyway.

    "For a time, I had to come in at 4am in the morning to look after my mice and my cells," she told The Telegraph. "I wanted to be involved in some kind of research that would help solve problems ... I really hope that the polymers we are trying to develop here could eventually be a solution."
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