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Feb 28, 2018
Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
Posted by Mark Larkento in category: government
Good intentions + evolving tech + developing science + inadequate data = bad outcomes
Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s signature NOLA For Life program. Thanks to its philanthropic status, as well as New Orleans’ “strong mayor” model of government, the agreement never passed through a public procurement process.
Feb 28, 2018
Could This Lead To The End of Diabetes?
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
Another milestone in the race to artificial superintelligence:
A study conducted by legal AI platform LawGeex in consultation with law professors from Stanford University, Duke University School of Law, and University of Southern California, pitted twenty experienced lawyers against an AI trained to evaluate legal contracts. Their 40 page report details how AI has overtaken top lawyers for the first time in accurately spotting risks in everyday business contracts.
Competitors were given four hours to review five non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and identify 30 legal issues, including arbitration, confidentiality of relationship, and indemnification. They were scored by how accurately they identified each issue.
Feb 27, 2018
Precision cancer treatment effective in treating tumors
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Summary: Researchers who just finished a precision cancer treatment trial at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles just reported that three out of four adult and child cancer patients responded favorably to a new precision therapy which targets a gene mutation. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) reports that three-fourths of adults and children with a variety of advanced cancers in different sites of the body responded to a novel therapy called larotrectinib that targets a specific genetic mutation.
The researchers published the results of this phase 1/2 trial on February 22, 2018, in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Feb 27, 2018
Company wants to bioprint new beating hearts to replace our diseased ones
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: A startup wants to develop bioprinted beating hearts using stem cells from a patient’s own body using a special 3D bioprinter. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
A startup called BioLife4D wants to develop bioprinted beating hearts using a patient’s own cells as solution for patients seeking heart transplants.
As first reported on USAToday, Steven Morris, the CEO founding partner and of BioLife4D says that if the bioprinted heart is successful, the company hopes to expand to other organs including the pancreas or the kidneys.
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Feb 27, 2018
These cancer vaccines to prevent tumors
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Cancer vaccines could prevent around 1,000,000 cancer deaths each year, according to a report by the World Health Organization this month. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
In a Feb 2018 report, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that infectious diseases cause 15% of all cancer deaths, and universal vaccination could prevent around one million cancers annually, saying.
“Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and was responsible for 8.8 million deaths in 2015.” Adding “Globally, nearly 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer.”
Feb 27, 2018
Healthiest vitamins and minerals revealed in new JAMA report
Posted by Brady Hartman in category: biotech/medical
JAMA recommends the healthiest sources of vitamins & minerals and suggests specific supplements for certain age-groups or medical conditions.
Feb 27, 2018
Predicting our body’s biological age with a pee test
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Aging biomarkers found in a simple urine test can potentially measure how much our body has aged and could predict our future health. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Determining our biological age and future risk of ill health may be as simple as a urine test one day.
In a new study, a team of researchers led by Jian-Ping Cai in the MOH Key Laboratory of Geriatrics at Beijing Hospital discovered two new aging biomarkers in urine that come from the oxidation of RNA and DNA. The new markers could potentially help predict our risk of developing an age-related disease, and even our risk of death.
Feb 27, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Strategy: 7 Things to Consider Before Getting Onboard
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Everyone is jumping on the AI bandwagon. Here are 7 reasons you may need to think before you leap.