Month: September 2022

OUR BRAINS BARELY TICK OVER. Containing a gigantic 2.5 petabytes terabytes of information under the hood; "if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows" running continuously for 300 years." We use our neurons quite actively, but 90% of the brain are glial cells "whose function remains largely unknown.". Running on only 1 cylinder most of the time? " " http://lnkd.in/btx3-Re View in LinkedIn

BRAIN HUMMMING AND WORKING CONSTANTLY? "The brain is enormously costly to the rest of the body, in terms of oxygen and nutrient consumption. It can require up to 20% of the body's energy—more than any other organ—despite making up only 2% of the human body by weight. If 90% of it were unnecessary, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains. If this were true, the process of natural selection would have eliminated the inefficient brains."" " http://lnkd.in/b52JRsC View in LinkedIn

90-98% OF BRAIN CELLS are gial, and are poorly understood. "There are different types of glial cells: astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, ependymal cells, radial glial, satellite cells and schwann cells. It is estimated that there are 10 to 50 times more glial cells than there are neurons in the brain." Beware com sci calculations that compare apples and oranges. " " http://psychology.about.com/od/gindex/g/glialcells.htm View in LinkedIn

BIOMICRY OF BRAINS" the main computational cost in creating simulations that are indistinguishable from physical reality for human minds in the simulation resides in simulating organic brains down to the neuronal or sub-neuronal level. While it is not possible to get a very exact estimate of the cost of a realistic simulation of human history, we can use ~10 to the 33 - 10 to the 36 operations as a rough estimate (Bostron)."" " http://lnkd.in/_6bUrh View in LinkedIn

THE 90% RULE. At best, with the wind bend us belting downhilll on the go-cart to the lemonade stand, we humans only know 10% of what we need to know. Name it? Dark Matter and energy? The function of over 90% of our brain? How almost anything really works? Be humble, Oh impatient homo sapiens! You are the youngest on this planet, stand in line! View in LinkedIn

INK JET PRINTING HUMAN CELLS. "By manufacturing human (autologous) skin cells using a printer similar to an inkjet, scientists have taken a significant first step toward generating new skin. The process, which could revolutionize the treatment of major skin wounds, could be ready for clinical trials in five years."" " http://lnkd.in/bnqTMFB. View in LinkedIn

PRINTABLE HUMAN SKIN. "It would be possible to build up a structure using different cell types mimicking the structure of actual skin. You can print as many cells as you have print heads. Our machine could print up to eight different 'inks' where the inks are cell suspensions, scaffold materials or biochemicals. In theory, you could print the scaffolding to create an organ in a day, but we are not quite there yet."" " http://lnkd.in/bnqTMFB View in LinkedIn

3D PRINTING LIVER. "this was the first time truly 3-D human liver tissues were generated from bioprinting. The tissue produced is made up of multiple cell types arranged in distinct spatial patterns that replicate features of natural tissue architecture." Cartilage and heart repair cells have been 3D printed. " "3-D printing creates living tissue cells, holds promise for medical research. http://lnkd.in/bB2eiEV View in LinkedIn

250 M FUND FOR REGEN MED "Australian PM unveils $250M fund to back regenerative med effort " "The Australian government is putting up half of the cash while looking to the private sector for the other half. Rudd called regenerative medicine and genomic research the next frontier in 21st-century R&D."" " http://lnkd.in/bWqerSi View in LinkedIn

GENOMIC KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. "since the start of the Human Genome Project in 1988 until 2012, the genomics revolution has contributed almost 1.0 trillion USD to the US economy (Battelle Report), with 53,000 genomics-related jobs and 293 billion USD in personal income. All from a 3.8 billion US government investment." VCs would die for that ROI!!!" " http://www.battelle.org/media/press-releases/updated-battelle-study-genetics-and-genomics-industry View in LinkedIn