#sci-fi science

[knightsofrayx]

Sneak Peak: Organized Lightning

Here's a sneak peak of what the next installment of the Pacific Rim AU is going to focus on.

[nerdbrah]

Sci-Fi Science: Age of Ultron and Robots That Learn - The down-low from an IRL science communicator.a

Sci-Fi Science: Age of Ultron and Robots That Learn - The down-low from an IRL science communicator.

Age of Ultron, Terminator: Genisys, Ex Machina, Chappie—if 2014 was the year of space movies, then 2015 is absolutely the year for robots and artificial intelligence to take over our screens. And it makes sense. We haven’t had much of a trend for robot movies since around the time people were worried about Y2K, and technologies have made advancements in leaps and bounds since then. #AvengersAgeOfUltron, #Contributors, #Robots, #SciFiScience, #Ultron, #WomenInSTEM

New post from NerdBrah.com

[dynport-blog]

Military Uniforms Of The Future Will Automatically Turn Into Chemical Suits In The Presence Of Threats

Next-gen combat fatigues could incorporate a new kind of breathable fabric that instantly turns into a protective shell in the presence of chemical or biological threats.

[dynport-blog]

Baking up a cure for Lou Gehrig's disease?

Drug developers may soon have new drug targets for Lou Gehrig's disease, thanks to some promising studies of yeast. Details are highlighted in the journal Nature Genetics.

You may not expect yeast to have many human parallels, but scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes were able to mimic the disease in baker's yeast by achieving higher-than-normal levels of expression of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43. Eventually, within the cells' cytoplasm, the protein bunched into deadly clumps, similar to how it advances in ALS patients. In humans with the neurodegenerative condition, TDP-43 builds up in clumps in parts of spinal cord neurons, the researchers explain. Patients with ALS also often have TDP-43 mutations.

Read more: Baker's yeast yields possible Lou Gehrig's disease drug target - FierceBiotech Research http://www.fiercebiotechresearch.com/story/bakers-yeast-yields-possible-lou-gehrigs-disease-drug-target/2012-10-29#ixzz2AnpB1fpt Subscribe: http://www.fiercebiotechresearch.com/signup?sourceform=Viral-Tynt-FierceBiotech Research-FierceBiotech Research

[dynport-blog]

Downloadable vaccines?

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A woman has a new ear, thanks to a mind-blowing procedure performed at Johns Hopkins.

42-year old Sherri Walter had cancer on her ear and it had to be removed, as well as many of the structures inside her head.

Doctors decided to make her a whole new ear.

They took cartilage from her ribs and they shaped it into an ear. They then took that cartilage and put it under her forearm.

Read more: http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/health/hopkins-doctors-make-new-ear-for-woman-on-her-arm#ixzz28k5jEPCD

[dynport-blog]

Nanotechnology never fails to blow my mind.

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Two paralyzed patients successfully manipulate a robotic arm just by thinking about how they would move their own limbs if they could.

Two patients who lost the use of their limbs (and the ability to speak) following brainstem strokes successfully reached out and touched a foam ball, thanks to a small array of electrodes implanted on their motor cortexes and a robotic arm that followed the command of their neurons, according to a Nature paper published today (May 16).