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Martin Ford Asks: Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?
Written by: Aaron Saenz 716 days ago
Will the future be filled with cool technologies and endless opportunities or will our own creations lead to eventual doom? [...]
Robots
5 Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter (Video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 605 days ago
Industrial robots are getting precise enough that they’re less like dumb machines and more like automated sculptors producing artwork. Case [...]
Genetics
Designer Babies – Like It Or Not, Here They Come
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1009 days ago
Long before Watson and Crick famously uncovered the structure of DNA in 1953, people envisioned with both horror and hope [...]
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Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have made a dramatic breakthrough in their efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers’ findings, published in the journal Science, show that use of a drug in mice appears to quickly reverse the pathological, cognitive and memory deficits caused by the onset of Alzheimer’s. The results point to the significant potential that the medication, bexarotene, has to help the roughly 5.4 million Americans suffering from the progressive brain disease.