Category: Tech News
- Gene therapy trials restore hearing to children born deaf ()
In this image from video provided by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an 11-year-old boy who was born with hereditary deafness prepares for a gene therapy procedure in Philadelphia in October 2023. On Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, the hospital announced his hearing has improved enough that he now has only mild to moderate hearing loss […]
- REGROWING LIMBS & ORGANS: THE POWER OF BIOELECTRICITY ()
Regrowing human limbs and organs… the stuff of science fiction, is on the horizon. The most extraordinary work in this field is coming from Tufts University scientist and entrepreneur Michael Levin, PhD. One of the world’s foremost experts in regenerative medicine and a leader in the growing field of “bioelectricity,” Levin has been developing the […]
- UCLA-led team finds a stem-cell derived mechanism that could lead to regenerative therapies for heart damage ()
A UCLA-led team has identified an essential internal control mechanism that can promote the maturation of human stem cell-derived heart muscle cells, offering a deeper understanding of how heart muscle cells develop from their immature fetal stage to their mature adult form. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Circulation, could lead to new therapies […]
- Nanoelectronic device performs real-time AI classification without relying on the cloud ()
Forget the cloud. Northwestern University engineers have developed a new nanoelectronic device that can perform accurate machine-learning classification tasks in the most energy-efficient manner yet. Using 100-fold less energy than current technologies, the device can crunch large amounts of data and perform artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in real time without beaming data to the cloud […]
- Drug discovery on an unprecedented scale ()
Boosting virtual screening with machine learning allowed for a 10-fold time reduction in the processing of 1.56 billion drug-like molecules. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland teamed up with industry and supercomputers to carry out one of the world’s largest virtual drug screens. In their efforts to find novel drug molecules, researchers often rely […]
- DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases ()
AlphaMissense, a new model from Google’s artificial intelligence team, analyzes the effects of DNA mutations and will accelerate research into rare diseases. ABOUT 10 YEARS ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon working in a […]
- Electricity can heal even the worst kind of wounds three times faster, new study finds ()
Scientists used an old theory to develop a new technique that involves exposing skin cells to an electric field to make the wounds on the skin heal faster. Researchers from Chalmers Insitute of Technology (CTH) and the University of Freiburg have proposed an interesting technique that enables chronic wounds to heal faster than ever. Medical […]
- Nanotechnology Examples and Applications ()
Background – what makes nanotechnology special One of the most fascinating aspects of nanotechnology is the incredibly small scale at which nanoengineering and nanofabrication take place. Consider this example: The first working transistor, built by Bell Labs John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in 1947, measured roughly 1 centimeter across. Today, logic transistor density […]
- Cancer Vaccine Created via CRISPR Prevents and Stops Brain Tumors ()
New vaccine for deadly brain cancer glioblastoma created with CRISPR-Cas9. Innovative technologies such as the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 enable pioneering scientists to develop novel treatments for diseases such as cancer. A new study published in Science Translational Medicine funded by the National Institutes of Health unveils an innovative cancer vaccine developed with CRISPR-Cas9 that both […]
- Stacking Turns Organic Transistors Up Vertical integration opens door to wearables, body interfaces, and brain-mimicking tech ()
The vertical electrochemical transistor is based on a new kind of electronic polymer and a vertical, instead of planar, architecture. Organic electronics appear to be, as the name might imply, quite good at interacting with a biological body and brain. Now scientists have created record-breaking, high-performance organic electronic devices using a potentially cheap, easy, and […]