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07/03/2024

Everything is in constant change. When you can start to accept that fact then each moment is precious and a miracle.

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05/01/2024

Science is SO exciting! https://www.science.org/content/article/electrified-cement-could-turn-houses-and-roads-nearly-limitless-batteries?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial&fbclid=IwAR3XCvRPlpFELKbTwyIJK-GR-rMIKvqQBX

Energy storing building materials could make on-demand power from renewables affordable worldwide

03/01/2024

Model mustard plant uses the same signals as animals to relay distress

03/01/2024

I think many of us know this and feel energy from plants but it is nice of science to prove it!

Model mustard plant uses the same signals as animals to relay distress

03/01/2024

Wonderful news!

This revolutionary method, employing the power of vibrating molecules, heralds a new dawn in the fight against cancer, offering hope for a more efficient and less invasive approach to treatment.

01/12/2023

EXCITING Science News! Meet ‘anthrobots,’ tiny bio-machines built from human tracheal cells
The researchers behind the frog embryo ‘xenobots’ are now focusing on similar automatons made from human material—with unexpected results.

BY ANDREW PAUL | PUBLISHED NOV 30, 2023 3:20 PM EST
Xenobots—a new classification of robots built from biological cells—evolved from theory to reality in only a few short years. Not long after first proposing the concept, researchers successfully harvested material from frog embryos to create their first multicellular biobots in 2020. From the outset, their xenobots could move, record data, collect materials, heal themselves, and even replicate for a few generations before naturally decomposing. Unlike the typical image of a robot built with electronics and other metal components, bioorganic robots often combine genetically altered or guided cells into a form that does not naturally occur within their source bodies. At first, the team didn’t know if they would be able to adapt their methods for any species other than their amphibian-derived xenobots. The answer to their question is already here: researchers have now advanced to “anthrobots”—biological machines derived from human tracheal cells.

As detailed in a new study published Thursday in Advanced Science, anthrobots not only can be constructed from adult human cells without the need for any genetic modification, but they are already proving more medically promising than their xenobot forebears.
“We wanted to probe what cells can do besides create default features in the body,” PhD candidate and study co-author Gizem Gumuskaya explained in a November 30 announcement. “By reprogramming interactions between cells, new multicellular structures can be created, analogous to the way stone and brick can be arranged into different structural elements like walls, archways, or columns.” According to the November 30 announcement, shaping xenobots required the laborious use of tweezers and scalpels. Anthrobots, by contrast, are able to self-assemble in lab dish environments, and are sourced from adults instead of embryonic cells.

The anthrobots each started as a single, donated tracheal cells covered in armlike cilia responsible for sweeping particles from lung airways. Researchers engineered cellular growth in a lab setting, which in previous studies has been shown to randomly result in the creation of spherical structures known as organoids. These organoids were then carefully conditioned to form exterior-facing cilia to function as paddles for movement. Using variants of tracheal cells offered an array of anthrobot abilities, such as being able to help build additional engineered tissues. Combining multiple organoids into a single structure created large clusters dubbed “superbots” by the researchers. But of all an anthrobot’s features, its most promising is one that took its engineers by surprise. When passing over a layer of additional human neurons grown within the lab petri dish, the anthrobots scratched their surfaces and encouraged new growth.

“It is fascinating and completely unexpected that normal patient tracheal cells, without modifying their DNA, can move on their own and encourage neuron growth across a region of damage,” said study co-author Michael Levin, a Tufts University professor of biology who previously helped design xenobots, in Thursday’s announcement. “We’re now looking at how the healing mechanism works, and asking what else these constructs can do.”

As researchers gain a better understanding of their anthrobots’ functions and potential, the team believes the bio-machines could be deployed across a wide range of scenarios. A swarm of anthrobots could hypothetically repair spinal or retinal nerve damage, identify cancerous cell growths, or apply drugs to specific areas of the body.

Andrew Paul
Andrew Paul
Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work also featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.

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12/06/2023

I find this kind of science fascinating!!!! How neat to be one of the people involved in the actual research!

Bowhead whale cells repair damaged DNA exceptionally well, an ability that could prevent cancer and help the marine mammals live for centuries

04/06/2023

All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins
in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our
grandmother’s womb, and she in turn
formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother’s blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.

~Layne Redmond, When the Drummers
Were Women

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22/05/2023

A rare photograph of an endangered species 👏👏👏

11/05/2023

This is Wonderful news!!!! If you want a feel good story to start your day this is it!

Five years ago, a small group of cancer scientists meeting at a restaurant in a deconsecrated church hospital in Mainz, Germany, drew up an audacious plan: They would test their novel cancer vaccine against one of the most virulent forms of the disease, a cancer notorious for roaring back even in pa...

07/05/2023

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02/05/2023

This is from a Matthew Mcconaughey group. I like it!

When a flashlight grows dim or quits working, you don't throw it away, you change the batteries. When a person messes up and finds themselves in a dark place, do you cast them aside? Of course not, you help them change their batteries! Some need AA.. attention and affection; Some need AAA.. attention, affection and acceptance; some need c.. compassion; some need D.. direction. And if they still don't seem to shine... simply sit with them quietly and share your light.

20/08/2022

Oh, I LIKE this! I tend to agree! What about you?

I don't trust words, I trust vibes. People can tell you anything, but a vibe tells you everything.

29/07/2022

YES!

"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible." -The Dalai Lama

23/07/2022

This is true but needs to be applied to ourselves too!

As much as I wish this wasn't true, I keep being reminded that it is. 🙏

19/04/2022

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18/02/2022

For all of my life this has been my very favorite thing to spend as much of my time as possible inhaling!

26/01/2022

This thought has been SO important to me throughout the years of my life!!!!! When I was at the end of my rope I would realize that I was just living another chapter and the only thing that kept me from living more stories in my book of life was me! I think the older we get the easier it is to remember this too!

21/01/2022

I need a new regular dr, I am hoping to find one that respects me as a person. I tend to see a nurse practitioner or some title like that. It's a dr without that title and usually they are much better! Some drs are aggressive as****es with a god complex! I found out when I was a small child that I "feel" things from nature and it's kind of like it is sharing its energy with me. There is great "connection" in those moments. I also was raised in an organic garden! Before I could walk I would be brought out to the garden with the family! Yep! Soil and growing good food is in my blood too! I have loved science all my life and pay attention to much of it over the years! I hope to find a dr that understands some of those things too, maybe.

11/11/2021

I like this! I appreciate being able to get old, because each day I am here and get to witness this magic of being alive and on this earth! Some people I have known and loved very much never got to live to even my age to spend all these days, here, living and breathing and experiencing this amazing world all around and within us that we live in!