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Early Teaser Trailer for Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander – Video
Posted: February 26, 2015 at 11:46 am
Early Teaser Trailer for Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
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Affordable, real, healthy life in space, is it an Utopia? Dome! – Video
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Affordable, real, healthy life in space, is it an Utopia? Dome!
How to make space livable? First of all space is a very hostile environment: vacuum, radiation, extreme temperatures, extreme temperatures variations, objects of extreme velocity etc Apart...
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Second spacewalk advances space station upgrades
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Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Terry Virts floated back outside the International Space Station Wednesday for the second of three spacewalks to help ready the lab complex for dockings by commercial crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX.
Floating in the Quest airlock module, Wilmore and Virts switched their spacesuits to battery power at 6:51 a.m. EST (GMT-5) to officially kick off a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk, the second of three outings planned by the Expedition 42 crew.
For identification, station commander Wilmore, call sign EV-1, is wearing a suit with red stripes and will be using helmet camera No. 18. Virts, EV-2, is wearing an unmarked suit and will use helmetcam 20. The mission control communicator, or CAPCOM, for the spacewalk is veteran astronaut Joe Acaba.
During a six-hour 41 minute EVA Saturday, the astronauts laid out eight bundles of cables near the front of the space station that will supply power and data to new docking port mechanisms that will be launched and installed later this year.
During Wednesday's outing, they first removed a protective cover from a docking port extension on the front end of the space station that was once used by visiting space shuttles. The cover turned out to be fairly stiff, but the astronauts managed to stuff it in a stowage bag as planned.
"Hey Joe, please don't ask us how we did it," Virts joked with Acaba.
"I tell you what, I wish I had a video of it," Wilmore said.
"That was the 'stuff your sleeping bag in the bag in the morning' technique," Virts quipped.
The spacewalkers then stowed no-longer-needed shuttle power cables that were disconnected Saturday before installing two final sets of power and data cables needed by the docking mechanisms.
During a brief lull in the work, Wilmore took a moment to marvel at the view as the station passed 257 miles above the northeast coast of South America.
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Astronaut 'mechanics' grease gear at space station
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Miami (AFP) - An American astronaut found water pooling inside his helmet after he finished a six-plus hour spacewalk on Wednesday, raising new concerns about the safety of NASA's spacesuits.
Terry Virts was not harmed during the incident, which the US space agency described as "minor" compared to the near-drowning of an Italian astronaut when a similar problem occurred in 2013.
But mission managers will be poring over the data at a meeting on Friday to decide whether another spacewalk can go ahead as planned on Sunday, a NASA spokesman said.
Even before this series of three spacewalks began on Saturday, NASA voiced concern about a recurring problem with the American spacesuits in a part of the temperature control system known as the fan pump separator.
Virts did not notice any water during the spacewalk, as he toiled for hours to lubricate the latching mechanisms on a robotic arm and helped his colleague Barry Wilmore get the space station's exterior ready for the arrival of commercial spaceships carrying astronauts in the coming years.
Their spacewalk lasted six hours and 43 minutes.
It was only after Virts was done, and had re-entered the Quest airlock, that he began to feel dampness on the back of his head and saw water pooling near the front of his headpiece.
The water inside Virts' helmet was "kind of pooling on the front side of his helmet above the eye level," European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti told mission control in Houston.
The water was "about three inches in diameter," she said, noting that the amount of water had increased in the moments since he first noticed it.
NASA television showed live images of Virts smiling inside his helmet and blowing on the water to make it ripple, before eventually removing the headpiece with Cristoforetti's help.
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Russia to use International Space Station until 2024
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Roscosmos finalizes a plan for its activities up to 2030 which 'provides for the use of the ISS until 2024,' the space agency says
This March 7, 2011 NASA handout image shows a close-up view of the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-133 crew member on space shuttle Discovery. NASA/AFP
MOSCOW, Russia Russia will continue using the International Space Station (ISS) in partnership with NASA until 2024, its space agency said, after Moscow had threatened to pull out and stop financing it by 2020.
Roscosmos has finalized a plan for its activities up to 2030 which "provides for the use of the ISS until 2024," the space agency said in a statement late Tuesday, February 24.
It also announced plans to begin manned missions to the moon by 2030 but said its objectives would be adjusted according to financing.
"We are taking into account possible changes in financing and the program will get updated," Yury Koptev, the head of the agency's scientific and technical committee, said.
NASA had already said the aging ISS will remain operational until 2024, but Russia's participation had been in question.
Russia had said it wanted to wind up its role in 2020 and in December delayed a final decision, while deputy defense minster Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the space industry, threatened to "use those resources on other promising space projects."
Russia's decision to postpone its departure from the ISS to 2024 is dictated by the current economic crisis, sparked by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine, said independent space analyst Vadim Lukashevich.
"All these hopes and dreams have been cancelled by the crisis. There's no money for a new station," Lukashevich told Agence France-Presse.
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Regulating genome-edited crops that aren't GMOs
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22 hours ago This is a figure depicting four regulatory models for genome-edited crops. Credit: Araki, M. and Ishii, T./Trends in Plant Science 2015
A survey of rice, wheat, barley, fruit, and vegetable crops found that most mutants created by advanced genetic engineering techniques may be out of the scope of current genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations. In a review of these findings, published in the February 25 issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, two bioethicists from Hokkaido University propose new regulatory models for genome-edited crops and declare a call to action for clarifying the social issues associated with such genetically engineered crops.
"Modern genome editing technology has allowed for far more efficient gene modification, potentially impacting future agriculture," says Tetsuya Ishii, PhD, of Hokkaido University's Office of Health and Safety. "However, genome editing raises a regulatory issue by creating indistinct boundaries in GMO regulations because the advanced genetic engineering can, without introducing new genetic material, make a gene modification which is similar to a naturally occurring mutation."
Under current regulations, a GMO is a living organism that has been altered by a novel combination of genetic material, including the introduction of a transgene. Advanced genetic engineering technologies, including ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas9, raise regulatory issues because they don't require transgenes to make alterations to the genome. They can simply pluck out a short DNA sequence or add a mutation to an existing gene.
"Genome editing technology is advancing rapidly; therefore it is timely to review the regulatory system for plant breeding by genome editing," says Dr. Ishii. "Moreover, we need to clarify the differences between older genetic engineering techniques and modern genome editing, and shed light on various issues towards social acceptance of genome edited crops."
In their study, Dr. Ishii and a member of his research staff, Motoko Araki, present four regulatory models in order to resolve the indistinct regulatory boundaries that genome editing has created in GMO regulations. They propose that the most stringent regulation (in which most of the mutants are subject to the regulations, whereas only a portion of deletion and insertion mutants fall outside the regulations) should be initially adopted and gradually relaxed because the cultivation and food consumption of genome-edited crops is likely to increase in the near future.
While policy-level discussions about the regulations of genome-edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
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Menu 14 Review – Human Genetics – Video
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Menu 14 Review - Human Genetics
This video is a synopsis of chapter 14 and highlights the major topics: karyotypes, genetic diseases, pedigree analysis, sex-linked traits, and nondisjunction.
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Marfan syndrome: medical care and research update focus of monthly genetic series
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Baylor College of Medicine experts will give an update on the latest research and best practices in medical care for Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of connective tissue that affects the skeletal system, cardiovascular system, eyes, and skin, in a public forum Feb. 17at the Childrens Museum of Houston.
The forum will feature Dr. John Belmont, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor and a pediatric geneticist at Texas Childrens Hospital; Dr. Shaine Morris, assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor and a pediatric cardiologist at Texas Childrens Hospital; Andi Lewis, a genetic counselor at Baylor and Texas Childrens Hospital; Judy Gibaldi, acting president and CEO of The Marfan Foundation and Rod Gray, a parent advocate.
The experts will discuss results of a recent large study, as well as best practices in medical care and resources regarding Marfan Syndrome.
Sponsored by Baylor and Texas Childrens, the event is part of the monthly Evening with Genetics lecture series organized by Baylors Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. The series offers current information regarding care, education and research about genetic disorders.
The program is free and open to the public. It will be held at 7 p.m. at the Childrens Museum of Houston, 1500 Binz, 77004. For more information, contact Susan Fernbach at 832-822-4280 or fernbach@bcm.edu or visit the registration page at http://www.bcm.edu/eveninggenetics. Registration is required.
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LifeMap Sciences Partners with Toldot Genetics to Support Next Generation Sequencing Variant Analysis Commercialization
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ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (LifeMap), a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today a commercial partnership agreement with Toldot Genetics, LTD (Toldot), a subsidiary of BATM Advanced Communications, Ltd. LifeMaps GeneCards Suite, comprised of the companys integrated biomedical knowledgebase and premium analysis tools, will optimize Toldots next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis capabilities by powering its algorithm-based tools for assigning genetic variations derived from whole genome and exome sequencing, to clinical conditions in order to improve biomedical research. LifeMap will also promote Toldots products and offer them to its large user base of life scientists in academia, research hospitals, and biopharma.
LifeMap Sciences extensive integrated biomedical knowledgebase will further expand Toldots analysis systems in order to contribute to the ability to get the most of unprecedented quantities of gene-related data derived from NGS experiments, said Yaron Guan-Golan, Chief Marketing Officer of LifeMap Sciences. Our partnership with Toldot Genetics reflects the flexibility of our technology to enhance biomedical research and discovery.
We believe that combining LifeMaps comprehensive biomedical knowledgebase and advanced analysis tools with Toldots proven ability to extract the most relevant information out of large amounts of sequencing data will create the best NGS analysis package available on the market today, said Dvir Dahary, CEO of Toldot Genetics. This partnership will assist in the discovery of novel clinical and scientific insights.
LifeMaps cloud-based technology offers unlimited access to users who wish to use its integrated biomedical knowledgebase and premium tools VarElect and GeneAnalytics for NGS data analysis. The company is also offering partners who are developing and commercializing NGS analysis platforms access to its integrated knowledgebase and tools under various business arrangements.
Both VarElect and GeneAnalytics are part of LifeMap Sciences recently launched GeneCards Suite Premium Tools. The tools leverage the LifeMap integrated biomedical knowledgebase, which includesGeneCards, the leading human gene database, MalaCards, the human disease database, andLifeMap Discovery, the cells and tissues database. LifeMap holds the exclusive worldwide license to marketGeneCards,MalaCards, VarElect, GeneAnalytics and GenAlaCart from Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
About LifeMap Sciences, Inc.
LifeMap Sciences (www.lifemapsc.com) is a life sciences technology company that offers integrated, streamlined solutions that empower life scientists worldwide to conduct cutting edge basic, clinical, and applied biomedical research.LifeMaps products are used in more than 3,000 institutions including academia, research hospitals, patent offices, and leading biopharma. The companys primary product offering, the GeneCards Suite, is comprised of an integrated biomedical knowledgebase and premium tools that enable researchers to effectively navigate the universe of human genes, proteins, cells, biological pathways, diseases, and the relationships between them. The knowledgebase includes three key databases that integrate information from over 100 sources: GeneCards, the leading human gene database, MalaCards, the human disease database, and LifeMap Discovery, the cells and tissues database. The GeneCards Suite premium tools are a set of biomedical data analysis applications that leverage the GeneCards Suite knowledgebase for gene variant prioritization and RNAseq and microarray gene set analysis to deliver enhanced results, including from the unprecedented quantities of data derived from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). The premium tools include VarElect, the NGS phenotyper,GeneAnalytics, a novel gene set analysis tool, and GeneALaCart, the GeneCards batch querying application. LifeMap Sciences intends to extend its offerings to the field of mobile health via its subsidiary,LifeMap Solutions, Inc. Operations worldwide are carried out from their offices in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. LifeMap is a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc.
About Toldot Genetics Ltd.
Toldot Genetics (www.toldot-dna.com) improves healthcare through the use of whole genome sequencing, developing and applying sophisticated algorithm-based tools and approaches to assign genetic variations to clinical conditions. Toldot provides geneticists and physicians with a complete analysis package of Exome sequencing data for identifying the causal mutations of rare genetic disorders. Pharma and BioTech companies use Toldot's services in their clinical pipelines, from the design and all the way to deep analysis of their sequencing data, exclusively tailored for the requirements of each project, incorporating gold-standard tools with in-house algorithms and software.
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DNA: Delhi CM-designate Arvind Kejriwal- PM Modi’s much hyped meet – Video
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DNA: Delhi CM-designate Arvind Kejriwal- PM Modi #39;s much hyped meet
DNA analyses Delhi CM-designate Arvind Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi #39;s much hyped meet that lasted for only 15 minutes.
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