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Aug 19, 2016

How Starshot will get us to Alpha Centauri in 20 years

Posted by in categories: innovation, space travel

Travelling into the darkest depths of the universe could soon be as easy as flicking on a switch, or at least a switch for a giant laser system that will fire a spacecraft at 150m kmph to Alpha Centauri.

Back in April 2016, the philanthropic research group Breakthrough Initiatives announced it was putting millions of dollars into developing a spacecraft capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in the next 20 years.

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Aug 17, 2016

China launches $30 billion state-controlled venture capital fund

Posted by in categories: business, innovation

China means business; and what will the long-term impacts to SV be? Could the US see a brain drain soon?


China has been encouraging its industrial firms to rise up the value chain through technical innovation and tougher efficiency standards, with the aim of creating globally competitive conglomerates.

It has vowed to be more selective in the way it disburses funds, and aims to cut off credit for non-competitive firms that are unable to upgrade.

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Aug 15, 2016

Self-Healing Textile: Welcome to the Age of Clothes That Can Heal Themselves

Posted by in categories: innovation, materials

Researchers have developed a liquid material that repairs torn clothes, and it it able to withstand subsequent washes in a washing machine.

Every invention starts with an idea. And a group of researchers at Pennsylvania State University have a rather great idea—making a piece of torn fabric heal itself.

After years of working on the concept, the team is more than pleased to have created a biodegradable liquid material that allows torn fabric to bind to itself back together, sans needles.

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Aug 10, 2016

Life Extension: How to Reach a Societal Turning Point — Talk b…

Posted by in categories: innovation, life extension

Keith Comito from LEAF/Lifespan.io talking about the need for a unified call to action and how we have reached a turning point in the life extension movement.


In this talk LEAF President Keith Comito explains how initatives like Lifespan.io (https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/sens-control-alt-delete-cancer/) fit into the broader goal of building a grassroots movement in support of life extension, with the eventual aim of effecting massive societial change on the issue. If you are looking for a deep dive into the full scope of life extension advocacy, from the dawn of history to current breakthroughs and opportunities, this is it.

This presentation is part of the Designing New Advances conference held by the Institute of Exponential Sciences in the Netherlands, orchestrated by Demian Hoed and Lotte van Noort.

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Aug 8, 2016

Stem cell breakthrough allows scientists to grow and assemble human eyes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

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“An ultimate goal of stem cell research is to turn on the regenerative potential of one’s own stem cells for tissue and organ repair and disease therapy,” said Dr. Kang Zhang of the UC San Diego School of Medicine.


You’ll soon be able to see the future with eyes grown in petri dishes. Scientists in Japan’s Osaka University have found a new way to turn stem cells into a human eyeball in what is (needless to say) a remarkable breakthrough for the medical community. According to lead biologist Kohji Nishida, a small sample of adult skin is all that would be required in order to grow retinas, corneas, lenses, and other key components of the eye.

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Aug 3, 2016

NSW minister reckons innovation runs in Australia’s DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Hmmm; ok, hmmm.


NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres has said that innovation is ingrained in the DNA of Australians as the nation has always found a way to ‘make things happen’.

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Jul 30, 2016

Pancreatic cell transplantation: a breakthrough for type 1 diabetes?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

In a new study, pancreatic islet cell transplantation has shown promise as an effective treatment alternative for type 1 diabetes patients with severe hypoglycemia.

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Jul 29, 2016

Future Technology Innovations On The Horizon

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation

Technology developments will continue to transform every field of aerospace, just as they have the over the last 100 years.

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Jul 26, 2016

Self-assembling nano inks form conductive and transparent grids during imprint

Posted by in categories: innovation, mobile phones

Researchers at INM have combined a new self-assembling nano ink with an imprint process to create flexible conductive grids with a resolution below one micrometer. Your Contact Press and Public Relations: Dr. Carola Jung [email protected] Phone: +49681–9300-506 Your expert: Dr. Tobias Kraus Head Structure Formation Deputy Head InnovationCenter INM [email protected] Phone: +49681–9300-389.

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Jul 26, 2016

Healthy livers grown from rejected donor organs in transplant breakthrough

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Healthy livers are being grown from rejected donor organs after British scientists discovered how to combat diseased tissue.

Researchers at the Royal Free in London have shown it is possible to strip away the damaged parts of donor livers and use the underlying structure as natural scaffold to rebuild a working organ.

The team are hoping that in the future stem cells from a transplant patient can be taken and used on the scaffold to grow a new liver which would not be rejected by the body.

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