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Sep 30, 2022

‘Love hormone’ is revealed to have heart healing properties

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, health, sex

The neurohormone oxytocin is well-known for promoting social bonds and generating pleasurable feelings, for example from art, exercise, or sex. But the hormone has many other functions, such as the regulation of lactation and uterine contractions in females, and the regulation of ejaculation, sperm transport, and testosterone production in males.

Now, researchers from Michigan State University show that in zebrafish and human cell cultures, oxytocin has yet another unsuspected function: It stimulates derived from the heart’s outer layer (epicardium) to migrate into its middle layer (myocardium) and there develop into cardiomyocytes, that generate heart contractions. This discovery could one day be used to promote the regeneration of the human heart after a . The results are published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

“Here we show that oxytocin, a neuropeptide also known as the love hormone, is capable of activating heart repair mechanisms in injured hearts in zebrafish and human cell cultures, opening the door to potential new therapies for heart regeneration in humans,” said Dr. Aitor Aguirre, an assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Michigan State University, and the study’s senior author.

Sep 30, 2022

How automating vulnerability management reduces risk of cyberattacks

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

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Cybercriminals are growing ever more relentless and deft with their attacks, with data breaches and system disruptions due to cyberattacks rising every year. Therefore, finding and strengthening cybersecurity weak spots, or vulnerabilities, is key to thwarting these attacks.

A key vulnerability is apps. Many organizations rely on productivity software and apps built in-house or from IT service providers to be competitive in today’s market. However, while these solutions boost productivity and employee and customer experiences, many of them have weak security measures that can expose the organization to cyberattackers.

Sep 30, 2022

Hearts by design

Posted by in category: futurism

Scalable biofabrication of heart helical tissue pattern augments pumping function.

Michael V. Sefton [email protected] and Craig A. Simmons

Science.

Sep 30, 2022

Will Artificial Intelligence Drive Robots?

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Agility CEO Damion Shelton and CTO Jonathan Hurst discuss artificial intelligence and its role in robot control. They also discuss the capability of robot learning paired with physics-based locomotion, Cassie setting a new world record using learned policies for control, and an exploration of the future of robotics through Dall-E.

At Agility, we make robots that are made for work. Our robot Digit works alongside us in spaces designed for people. Digit handles the boring and repetitive tasks that are meant for a machine, which allows companies and their people to focus on the work that requires the human element.

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Sep 30, 2022

For the longest time: Quantum computing engineers set new standard in silicon chip performance

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Two milliseconds—or two thousandths of a second—is an extraordinarily long time in the world of quantum computing. On these timescales the blink of an eye—at one 10th of a second—is like an eternity.

Now a team of researchers at UNSW Sydney has broken new ground in proving that ‘spin qubits’—properties of electrons representing the basic units of information in quantum computers—can hold information for up to two milliseconds. Known as ‘coherence time’, the duration of time that qubits can be manipulated in increasingly complicated calculations, the achievement is 100 times longer than previous benchmarks in the same .

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Sep 30, 2022

Video: Half human-looking robot breaks speed record

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Cassie, a robot built by Agility Robotics, set the Guinness World Record for the fastest 100-meter run by a bipedal robot.

Sep 30, 2022

How MLops deployment can be easier with open-source versioning

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, security

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Modern software development typically follows a very iterative approach known as continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD). The promise of CI/CD is better software that is released quicker and it’s a promise that ClearML now intends to bring to the world of machine learning (ML).

ClearML today announced the general availability of its enterprise MLops platform that extends the capabilities of the company’s open-source edition. The ClearML Enterprise platform provides organizations with security controls and additional capabilities for rapidly iterating and deploying ML workflows.

Sep 30, 2022

Retrofitting for fusion?

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

A new study by Zap Energy will assess the feasibility of siting a Zap fusion energy pilot plant at Washington’s only remaining coal power station.

Zap Energy will study the potential benefits of transitioning a natural gas power plant to a first-of-a-kind fusion pilot plant.

Sep 30, 2022

Google Kills Stadia, Its Cloud Gaming Service, Refunding Everyone

Posted by in category: entertainment

Google is shutting down its cloud gaming storefront just a few years after it launched.

Sep 30, 2022

New alternative to LASIK growing in popularity as many ditch lenses

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A newly approved permanent contact lens is growing in popularity, it’s a new alternative for LASIK. No more fumbling with contacts or glasses, now there’s an FDA-approved lens that stays in place, and people say it’s life-changing.

This is the newest implantable contact lens, called EVO.

“It’s absolutely mind-blowing,” patient Rusell Joy said.