Scientists from Princeton University and the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have used radio frequency waves and temperature to stabilize the white-hot and volatile plasma that swirls inside of fusion reactors like tokamaks and stellarators.
The radio waves disrupt the magnetic islands that form and disrupt the plasma flow, and temperature magnifies the stabilizing effect. As the saying goes, the disruptor of your disruptor is your friend.
As if this contagion movie we are living can not get any more strange. A University of Pittsburgh researcher who claimed to have been on the verge of a significant breakthrough in his research on the coronavirus was killed in what appears to me a murder-suicide…
While police are treating the death as a homicide, they have yet to find any evidence that it was related to his research.
Rhesus macaques don’t monkey around when it comes to HIV; they have a protein that effectively disables invading HIV particles.
A group of University of Chicago scientists announced an innovative study that explains how the macaques’ immune protein, called TRIM5α, works its magic. It also represents a significant step forward in the science of modeling how complex biological proteins assemble themselves, the scientists said.
“These proteins work together to encase the HIV capsid in a hexagonal net and restrict viral activity,” said postdoctoral fellow Alvin Yu and lead author of the study, which was published in Nature Communications.
Molecules are some of life’s most basic building blocks. When they work together in the right way, they become molecular machines that can solve the most amazing tasks. They are essential for all organisms by, for example, maintaining a wide range of cellular functions and mechanisms.
What if you could create and control an artificial molecular machine? And make it perform tasks that serve us humans?
Many researchers are looking for ways to create and control such molecular machines, and research is going on in labs all over the world.
As the holder of more than 270 patents in 27 countries—including 112 in the US alone—Tesla rightfully earned his place in history, but not every invention of Tesla made it to production. With that in mind, we combed through the records and found 7 of Tesla’s most substantial inventions that never got built.
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The cutting-edge ‘KNasa Chef Knife’ is twice as sharp as other blades and stays sharp for five times longer.
The brains behind it claim it is the first true innovation in knife making in over 200 years.
The knife is made from an ultra-hard alloy developed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and has been tested by engineers at NASA.
Provention Bio is on track to complete submission of a BLA for its T1D drug Teplizumab by the end of 2020.
This will revolutionise treatment of at-risk T1D patients. The company received the Breakthrough Therapy Designation from FDA.
The company is significantly undervalued on this indication alone — but has enormous potential in other indications.