World's First Fully Automated Dental Procedure on a Human with AI-Driven Robotic System According to Perceptive, the robot can complete crown placement in just 15 minutes, significantly reducing the current method, which requires two office visits of at least one hour each. www.perceptive.io/
Thermal facial image analysis reveals age and disease. As we age, the nose area becomes colder and the eye area becomes hotter. Interestingly, jumping rope more than 800 times a day for 2 weeks reduced thermal facial aging. www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(24)00188-8
Allan Doctor (University of Maryland) and Hiromi Sakai (Nara University, Japan) are competing to create a single artificial blood that can be used for all blood types. Doctor’s product (ErythroMer) has successfully completed animal testing, while Sakai’s product has already been tested in a few humans.
Freezing bread can be a healthier habit. According to this article and a cited paper within it, the level of resistant starch (which is harder to digest and thus controls insulin/glucose levels better) was higher in the order of 1) freeze/thawed, 2) toasted, 3) untreated white bread.
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived without damage. Note that it's not a whole brain. Still very interesting.
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Tiktok venturing into the drug discovery industry.
www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2024/01/02/tiktok-bytedance-pharmaceuticals-drug-discovery-science-biology-chemistry-ai-china/?sh=535873d50874
This Science paper reports progress on El Salvador's experiment with Bitcoin as legal tender. “…BTC was rarely adopted except among one privileged group: young, educated men with bank accounts...” Can cryptocurrencies, as some claim, help people in underdeveloped countries? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add2844