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Jan 2, 2018
A fossil fuel technology that doesn’t pollute
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: energy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LHGVBTDDnKU
Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing technologies that have the potential to economically convert fossil fuels and biomass into useful products including electricity without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
In the first of two papers published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the engineers report that they’ve devised a process that transforms shale gas into products such as methanol and gasoline—all while consuming carbon dioxide. This process can also be applied to coal and biomass to produce useful products.
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Jan 2, 2018
Why does anyone attribute value to Bitcoin?
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, economics, internet
Oh, Cheez…We’re back to this question, again!
As a Bitcoin columnist, I get this question a lot. Today, an answer was requested at Quora.com, where I am the lead contributor on cryptocurrencies:
“Clearly, some people value Bitcoin. But How can
this be? There is nothing there to give it value!”
Many individuals, like the one who asked this question, suspect that Bitcoin was pulled out of thin air—and that it is not backed by gold, a government, or an authoritative redemption guaranty. After all, it is just open source code. What stops me from creating an ElleryCoin using the same code?!
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Tags: bitcoin, currency, government, intrinsic value, money, Value
Jan 2, 2018
Reviewing the Lifespan Extension Discoveries of 2017
Posted by Brady Hartman in category: life extension
A review of the discoveries in lifespan extension reported in 2017.
Summary: a review of the discoveries in lifespan extension reported in 2017. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. The article has been updated, and the title has been changed.]
Another year is over. Here’s a look back at the discoveries and articles covering lifespan extension science in 2017.
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Jan 2, 2018
We Need Breakthrough Biomarkers of Aging to Revolutionize Lifespan Extension
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Biomarkers of aging would be a breakthrough that slashes the time and cost it currently takes to develop lifespan-extension drugs. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. ]
Biomarkers of aging would revolutionize the development of lifespan-extension drugs, helping to bring them out of the laboratory and into the clinic in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost. The first scientist to come up with an effective biomarker of aging would produce a true breakthrough for the field of life extension.
Imagine that geroscientists have just developed a miraculous compound called Regulus that promises to extend human lifespans by a significant amount. Unfortunately, the researchers would not have an easy time testing Regulus because humans live a long time. Testing Regulus in mice, would help, but researchers would still have to test the drug’s lifespan-extending effects in humans. Before anti-aging physicians could prescribe Regulus, it would need to undergo an expensive and lengthy clinical trial.
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Jan 2, 2018
Breakthroughs Set To Revolutionize Stem Cell Therapy
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: These breakthroughs in stem cell therapy could potentially rejuvenate our damaged organs with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Moreover, biotech firms are rushing to bring organ-rejuvenating cell therapies to the marketplace. [This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Recent advances in stem cell therapies could translate into effective treatments for intractable diseases.
Stem cells are the repairmen of our bodies. Unlike our ordinary cells, stem cells can divide without limit and create fresh copies of nearly any tissue type to repair damaged organs. While we have an abundance of these repairmen in our youth, we experience stem cell decline as we age.
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Jan 2, 2018
(Video) Researchers Find Promising Alzheimer’s Treatment Using Diabetes Drug
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Researchers find promising Alzheimer’s treatment with a diabetes drug that ‘significantly reversed memory loss.’
Promising alzheimer’s treatment using diabetes drug.
Scientists announced a drug that ‘significantly reversed memory loss’ in mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Jan 2, 2018
New Research on Maximum Human Lifespan
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: genetics, life extension
Summary: New findings on maximum human lifespan shows that we have an upper limit due to the construction of our bodies and genetic constraints. However, anti-aging scientists may have discovered ways to overcome this limitation. [This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts website. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Three new studies show that maximum human lifespan is limited to about 115 – 120 years due to genetic constraints, the construction of our bodies and an increasingly toxic environment.
These studies are hardly the first to conclude there is a maximum human lifespan. However, there may be a way to overcome this limitation.
Jan 2, 2018
Quantum Computing Q — US
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, computing, quantum physics
IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computers for business and science.
Jan 2, 2018
Stem Cell Trials For Osteoarthritis Repair Cartilage
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are one of the most thoroughly studied and understood stem cell types. They are used in a wide range of therapies, and the many studies using MSCs have enjoyed varied levels of success, depending on delivery methods, patients, co-therapies and other factors.
Today, we will be taking a look at MSCs and a new human clinical trial focused on treating osteoarthritis, an age-related inflammatory condition that leads to the breakdown of bone and cartilage.