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Brain Barriers Breached To Attack Tumors

Yale researchers have found a way to get immune system rescuers through the brain’s protective drainage system.

Antiaging Treatments That Are Closest To FDA Approval

There are a few dozen antiaging rejuvenation treatments that are progressing through pre-clinical and clinical trials. Lifespan.io is tracking the antiaging rejuvenation treatments on a rejuvenation roadmap. Two treatments are in phase 3 clinical trial.

New Harvard Study Fights Fat With Salty, Icy Injections

Injecting an icy saline slurry into fat deposits could be a new fat-reduction

AI Startups Raised $18.5 Billion In 2019, Setting New Funding Record

While overall U.S. venture capital funding dipped in 2019, the artificial intelligence sector bucked this trend by reaching a new annual high for money raised by startups.

Ark Invest’s Big Five Technologies In 2020 Will Be Worth Multiple Trillions Around 2030

Ark Invest has 11 Big Ideas for 2020. However, Five Ideas are clearly the biggest. AI and Sequencing will supercharge biotechnology for nearly $10 trillion in impact by 2024.

Cancer Death Rate In U.S. Sees Sharpest One-Year Drop

Breakthrough treatments for lung cancer and melanoma have driven down cancer mortality overall, and from 2016 to 2017 spurred the largest-ever decline.

CES 2020 Proved VR And AR Are Thriving

Virtual and augmented reality have had a rough few years: Pundits tried to proclaim VR “dead” despite growing consumer interest and sales, while AR’s high prices and limited utility relegated dozens of competing headsets into various “enterprise” niches.

Algorithm Identifies New Treatment For Neuroblastoma

Using a computer algorithm, scientists at Uppsala University have identified a promising new treatment for neuroblastoma. This form of cancer in children, which occurs in specialised nerve cells in the sympathetic nervous system, may be life-threatening.

US Cancer Death Rates Report Reveals Sharpest Ever Single-year Decline

The steady decline is attributed to a range of factors, with the period examined including the sharpest one-year decline ever recorded.

Google Assistant Passes 500 Million Users, Will Get Longform Reading And Deeper Smart Home Integration In 2020

Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users, and today Google is previewing features on the way in 2020 like a new voice that reads articles and web pages aloud to users with a more natural and humanlike voice.

NextMind Is Building A Real-time Brain Computer Interface, Unveils Dev Kit For $399

NextMind is part of a growing number of startups building noninvasive neural interfaces that rely on machine learning algorithms.

Apple's Working On A Powerful, Wireless Headset For Both AR, VR

The headset, which would straddle the two technologies and tap into Apple's own chips, is slated for 2020. It’s the biggest sign of Apple’s interest in virtual reality.