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How scorpion venom is helping surgeons detect brain cancer
Posted in Medicine on 13th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
A new imaging technique designed to help surgeons identify the location of malignant brain tumors during surgery is showing promising early clinical trial results
One million species, or a quarter of all that are left, are now under threat of extinction
Posted in Featured, Science on 8th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Even though the rate of species extinction is already currently tens to hundreds of times faster than it's averaged over the last 10 million years, it will continue to accelerate should our current practices continue.
Gene Editing Still Needs Improved Accuracy to Fix Genetic Diseases Inside Bodies
Posted in Medicine on 7th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
There has been a lot of progress with gene editing to precisely engineer the genome. We are close to starting to fix major gene-related diseases like sickle cell anemia.
Two-stage diagnostic process detects Alzheimer’s years before symptoms appear
Posted in Medicine on 6th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
A new two-step diagnostic process is claiming to confidently detect Alzheimer's disease nearly a decade before clinical symptoms appear.
Google releases AI training data set with 5 million images and 200,000 landmarks
Posted in Online, Software on 3rd May, 2019
by Alex Muller
In a significant step toward its goal of more sophisticated landmark-detecting computer vision models, Google open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2, a new, larger landmark recognition corpus containing twice as many photos and seven times as many landmarks.