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Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Biomedicine: Self-Healing, Recyclable Electronic Skin

February 13, 2018

A section of the electronic skin developed by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Biomedicine just took another leap forward. University of Colorado Boulder scientists created so-called electronic skin—e-skin for short. The e-skin is a thin, semi-transparent material that can act like your skin through measuring temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow. The new material, which was detailed in a study published Friday in Science Advances,could make better prosthetics, improve the safety of robots in the future and aid development of other biomedical devices.

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AI, Biotech, Brain, brain hacking, brain-computer interfaces, Science & Technology News

Will we ever be able to upload a mind to a new body?

February 13, 2018

In Altered Carbon, the body no longer matters. As one character quipped: “You shed it like a snake sheds its skin.” That’s because the human consciousness has been digitized, and can be moved between bodies—both real and synthetic.

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Biotech, Engineering, new technology, Robotics

This tiny, magnetic robot could roll, walk, and swim through the terrain of the human body

February 8, 2018

This millimeter-scale robot designed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems could enable “applications in microfactories such as the construction of tissue scaffolds by robotic assembly, in bioengineering such as single-cell manipulation and biosensing, and in healthcare such as targeted drug delivery and minimally invasive surgery” with bots inside the body controlled by magnets. From their scientific paper in Nature:

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App, Biotech, Military, mobile apps, Wearables

Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases

February 5, 2018

Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities

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Biotech, Medical Breakthrough, Stem cells

The end of root canals: Stem cell fillings trigger teeth to repair themselves, research study claims

February 1, 2018

Wouldn’t it be great if your teeth could heal themselves without the need of a painful root canal?

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Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, Stem cells

Newly FDA-approved platform will rapidly “manufacture” stem cells to repair our bodies

January 31, 2018

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have received FDA approval for a platform that can manufacture stem cells by the billions in just days, in contrast to previous methods of making stem cells that took months.

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Biotech, China, Medical Breakthrough

Monkeys have been successfully cloned in China, but you might not like the reason why

January 27, 2018

It’s now been over two decades since scientists in Scotland successfully cloned a sheep and named the newborn Dolly. In the years since, the technology that powers cloning has advanced slowly but steadily, and while many scientists fear the inevitability that one day a human clone will be created, others are pushing the field into new areas. The latest example of cloning’s ceaseless march forward is the birth of Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong, a pair of baby monkeys that are the byproduct of the first successful somatic cell nuclear transfer performed with primates.

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Biotech, China, Genes, Genetics

China has already gene-edited 86 people with CRISPR

January 23, 2018

In the U.S., the first planned clinical trials of CRISPR gene editing in people are about to kick off. China, meanwhile, has been racing ahead, having already used the gene-altering tool to change the DNA of dozens of people in several clinical trials.

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Biotech, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The biggest fitness trends of 2018

January 3, 2018

How do we know them already? Because we asked some of the brightest minds in the business.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech, brain-computer interfaces, Futurist, Science & Technology News

The most futuristic predictions that came true in 2017

December 29, 2017

The trouble with the future is that it never seems to arrive. That’s why we call it the future. We consequently have this bad habit of taking the present, and all the wondrous and horrific things it has to offer, for granted. As a reminder that we’re actually living in the future of a not-so-distant past, we present to you a list of the most futuristic things that happened in 2017.

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Biotech, Children, Healthcare, Parenting

2017 changed how we’ll have babies

December 27, 2017

It used to be that reproduction was a seemingly straightforward thing: A man’s sperm met and clung to a woman’s egg. If the the stars aligned and the sperm successfully fertilized the egg, nine (and some change) months of waiting would result in a baby.

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Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough

Scientists discover a way to prevent stem cell loss and improve tissue regeneration

December 24, 2017

Stem Cells and Aging

The stem cells found within the average adult human are capable of restoring dying cells while also fixing damaged tissue. Nothing is safe from the aging process, though, and as we get older we begin to lose the very same stem cells that once kept our bodies in functional condition. But there could be a way around that: new stem cell research has revealed a nutrient sensing pathway called TOR can be subdued in order to prevent such loses. TOR plays a key role in the aging process and is largely responsible for the loss of stem cells in the human body.

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