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NatGeo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, Featured, Gadgets, Mind/Brain, Other, Video

NatGeo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome
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Well, NatGeo has started putting on a new series, and it’s right in-line with just about everything this site would ever hope to be about. -Just in video format.

It’s on Sundays, 9/8C and we’re already starting to get to the good stuff like, “More Than Human”, “Decoding The Brain”, and “The Age of Aging”.

So, while you’re waiting for the next installment, check out their trippily-animated, Hayden Planetarium-meets-Minority Report-On-LSD website.

A linked-list of the major sections is below, to help you sift through & target the content you’d like to check out…

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Video: Hammerhead VR Big Data Genome Browser Finds Needles In Haystacks, -The Size Of Mount Everest

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain, Video

Video: Hammerhead VR Big Data Genome Browser Finds Needles In Haystacks, -The Size Of Mount Everest


 
Like it or not, many factors like cheap storage are moving us toward Information Overload on a scale even Future Shock’s author could not have imagined.

Nowhere is that becoming more true than in Machine Learning and the Algorithmic-Pattern-Matcher-Meets-Server-Farm presently called, “Big Data”.

One of the first places outside Google and Facebook to have this problem? -Health Research.

The main issue with that much data is: How do you even begin to make sense of it?…

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Sweet Engineering Tricks Make 3D-Printed Bone Replacements Better, Healthier And Cheaper. -The Bees’ Knees, Actually.

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

Sweet Engineering Tricks Make 3D-Printed Bone Replacements Better, Healthier And Cheaper. -The Bees’ Knees, Actually.
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Awhile back, we told you about the amazing 3D-Printed bones designed by Dr. Susmita Bose.

Since then, there’s been another development that will add to the final consumer product, just like the 3D-Blueprinting side we saw from the guys who put the motorcyclist back together.

–What Dr. Richard Oreffo’s team did was to research all different kinds of Materials, Composites, Plastics, Minerals and many different kinds of Shapes & Layouts. -And they arrived at something really interesting…

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3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead

Filed Under: Bio-Tech

3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead
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Awhile ago Stephen Power, like many unfortunate motorcyclists, got into a very serious wreck.

He didn’t die.

-But he Did break: both arms, both cheek bones, both eye-sockets, his upper jaw, his right leg so badly it needed a bone-graft, and for the hat-trick he also managed to crack his skull.

So OK, not good.

 
But, before they decided to give 3D-reconstruction-wizard Susmita Bose a run for her money, his frankly-heroic surgeons…

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Crafty Researchers Cast Blood Vessels Into 3D Printed Replacement Organs

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Disease

Crafty Researchers Cast Blood Vessels Into 3D Printed Replacement Organs
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The interesting intersection between the ‘Old’ and New sciences of Stem Cells and 3D-Printing is starting to provide some amazing developments in both Life-Extension and Replacement-Parts.

The well-known windpipe-replacement is also one of the bigger successes in that category as of late.

 
*However, to make these things Truly Useful, there are still quite a few obstacles to overcome.

-And now, Make that quite a few, -Minus One.

 
Jennifer Lawrence Lewis and her team have come up with quite an ingenious…

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Spider-Cast, Spider-Cast, Does Whatever A Spider-Cast Does…

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Other

Spider-Cast, Spider-Cast, Does Whatever A Spider-Cast Does…
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Ok, the pattern wasn’t taken Exactly from spiderwebs, but it’s damn close.

And if SpiderPig ever did ding a hoof, you know he’d wear something just like this.

As long as they can sort out the shock-absorption angle that looks as-yet missing, this looks like it might actually work, while also looking cool and being comfortable.

Links:
• Source: Jake Evill Design- CORTEX
• via: Wired

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TED: Print Your Own Medicine

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll, Video

TED: Print Your Own Medicine



 
Check out Professor Lee Cronin’s short but interesting take on where Medicine, Apps, Big Data For Chemistry and 3D Printers might go in the near future.

The implications sound pretty huge, especially for shipping-costs and disintermediation, if the process can be standardized and controlled.

*It REALLY would have to be in order to avoid scenarios like the following:

“Uh, we’re really sorry Mrs. Johnson, but we forgot a few atoms in there, and instead of HRT pills, you got Androgel 25.5%. Enjoy your new life as a man. -Yeah, I know. Shaving really is a pain. You get used to it though…”

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MakerBot on SteroidsStem Cells! 3D Printer Makes Bone Grafts

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease

MakerBot on <strike>Steroids</strike>Stem Cells! 3D Printer Makes Bone Grafts
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In just a few years, our pal Whiskey might have an even snazzier way to get a replacement if he ever needs it again.

That’s if Susmita Bose and her team at Washington State University have anything to say about it.
-Because they’ve successfully hacked an inkjet printer into a 3D Bone-Scaffold Fab.

They can take just about any CAD file and have the machine spray repeated passes of plastic fixative down onto the calcium phosphate base material and then after a short while, out comes the finished part.

All they have to do is bake it in an oven for about two hours, and it’s ready to be installed with the addition of the same type of cells that built out the implant in Whiskey The Dog. With any traces of man-made material either degrading out, or being fully incorporated into the new body structure.

Here’s to hoping Whiskey won’t need it though, eh?

Links:
• Source:WSU-3D Printer used to make bone-like material
• via: BBC-3D Bone Printer

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Science Hubris Debunked. Junk DNA Actually Not Junk

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, Noise

Science Hubris Debunked. Junk DNA Actually Not Junk
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Scientists had previously assumed only 23,000, or ~2%, of our approximately 3 Billion genes are functional at all, because of their active involvement in protein synthesis.
-Which drew the appropriate snort of derision from one Dr. Charles Xavier.

Well the ENCODE project just blew that number right out of the water.

It’s looking more like 80% of the genome is involved in one way or another, especially in a supervisory role. Some of the genes may not be coding proteins themselves directly, but they, like middle-management, are involved in how much of each gets made and when.

If you’re into more details about the more than 30 papers filed by hundreds of scientists, head over to the links and get a bigger picture of how they hope to figure out the future of conquering disease with this new information:

Links:
TIME-ENCODE Project Results

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