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- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 21) September 21, 2024TECH AI’s Hungry Maw Drives Massive $100B Investment Plan by Microsoft and BlackRock Benj Edwards | Ars Technica “The partnership initially aims to raise $30 billion in private equity capital, which could later turn into $100 billion in total investment when including debt financing. The group will invest in data centers and supporting power infrastructure […]Singularity Hub Staff
- DNA Computing Evolves: New System Stores Data, Plays Chess, and Solves Sudoku Puzzles September 20, 2024DNA is nature’s computing device. Unlike data centers, DNA is incredibly compact. These molecules package an entire organism’s genetic blueprint into tiny but sophisticated structures inside each cell. Kept cold—say, inside a freezer or in the Siberian tundra—DNA and the data encoded within can last millennia. But DNA is hardly just a storage device. Myriad […]Shelly Fan
- There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway September 19, 2024Norway’s sizable oil and gas deposits have made it one of the wealthiest countries in the world. That’s why it might come as a surprise that it’s the first country to have more electric vehicles than gasoline-powered ones. Transportation is the single biggest contributor to climate change in the US—accounting for 28 percent of total […]Edd Gent
- Scientists Discover New Evidence Earth May Once Have Had a Ring Like Saturn September 17, 2024The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the solar system. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, my colleagues and I present evidence that Earth may have had a ring. The existence of such a ring, […]Andrew Tomkins
- Elderly Monkeys Aged More Slowly When Given a Cheap Diabetes Drug Used by Millions September 16, 2024A drug that slows aging may already be on the market. Scientists have long been interested in metformin, a widely prescribed drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, for its potential to delay aging. In worms, fruit flies, and rodents, the drug—on average less than a dollar per pill—shows promising anti-aging effects. Last week, a […]Shelly Fan
- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 14) September 14, 2024ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step Will Knight | Wired “The company today announced a new advance that signals a shift in approach—a model that can ‘reason’ logically through many difficult problems and is significantly smarter than existing AI without a major scale-up. The […]Singularity Hub Staff
- A New Gene Therapy Reprograms Cancer Cells to Fight Themselves September 13, 2024Cancer cells are tricky foes. Our body’s immune system is normally on the lookout for signs of tumor cells. If any are detected, it launches killer T cells—a type of immune cell—to seek and destroy the threat. But it’s a cat-and-mouse game: As tumors grow, they form a protective barrier to counteract immune attacks. Immune […]Shelly Fan
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- Biomarkers of Aging Consortium Announces Second Conference September 20, 2024The Biomarkers of Aging Consortium is proud to announce its second annual Biomarkers of Aging Conference, scheduled for November 1-2, 2024, at the Joseph Martin […]Press release
- For the 11th Year in Copenhagen: Highlights from ARDD 2024 September 20, 2024The Copenhagen-based Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD) was already enormous. Last year, there were well over a thousand physical participants, and many more online, attending five days of wall-to-wall talks: more than a hundred in total. We called […]Arkadi Mazin
- The Ventricles of the Heart Age Differently September 19, 2024In Aging Cell, researchers have published their findings on how the right ventricle of the heart ages differently from the left one. Not just organs, but parts of organs Research on […]Josh Conway
- Insilico Medicine Reports Positive Phase IIa Results for IPF September 19, 2024Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative AI-driven drug discovery company, announced positive preliminary results from its Phase IIa clinical trial evaluating ISM001-055. ISM001-055 is a first-in-class small molecule targeting TNIK (Traf2- and Nck-interacting kinase) and was […]Press release
- Combining Treatments Against Multiple Hallmarks of Aging September 18, 2024Researchers have published a review of the current state of combination therapies that address multiple Hallmarks of Aging [1]. Some of these combined therapies were found to induce greater lifespan extension than single treatments. A […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- Light Pollution Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease Prevalence September 17, 2024Scientists have found a correlation between the intensity of nighttime outdoor lighting, which can disrupt sleep, and Alzheimer’s disease [1]. Light pollution – heavy consequences Outdoor lights help us with a lot of things, such as illuminating […]Arkadi Mazin
- Extracellular Vesicles to Fight Liver Fibrosis September 16, 2024Researchers have filled extracellular vesicles (EVs) with micro-RNA that is effective against liver fibrosis in mice and published their breakthrough in Aging Cell. The cellular postal service […]Josh Conway