In the modern world, everyday you will wake up to a new technology which has just been invented by a great scientist. In recent times, there are several such technologies which are in the market and below are some of them with many more being at technopo.com. Read through and be mesmerized by what scientists all over the globe are doing.
- Robot Dexterity: Robots have started teaching themselves on how to tackle the world. There are talks all around of machines taking over jobs which used to be done by humans but still, they are inflexible and clumsy. A robot is capable of picking up components repeatedly from an assembly line without getting bored and with amazing precision. But when you replace the object with something which is slightly different or moves the object slightly, the robot will fumble. Even though a robot cannot be programmed to figure out how to get something by looking at it the way people do, it has been programmed to manipulate the object on its own through the virtual trial and error method. Dactly is such a robot which can flip a toy building block using its fingers. It is an off the shelf robot hand which is surrounded by an array of cameras and lights. It uses what is referred to as reinforcement learning, neutral network software to learn how to grasp and turn the block that is within an environment which is simulated before the hand can try it out. The software is able to randomly experiment first, strengthening connections that are within its network and with time, it gets to its goal.
- Predicting preemies: With the use of technologies such as the ones experienced at com, it is possible to nowadays use blood to find out if a pregnant woman stands a risk of giving birth to a premature baby. Most of the genetic materials are found in the cells. But there are some cell-free RNA and DNA which are found in the blood which are released when cells are dying. In pregnant women, the material for free cells is a nucleic acid coming from the fetus, the mother and the placenta. These free-floating RNA and DNA can be able to give information which was only available through doing a biopsy of a certain tumor or having to puncture the belly of a pregnant woman to be able to perform an amniocentesis. Nowadays, it is easy to the sequence after detecting the small number of genetic materials which are cell-free in the blood. In the recent past, researchers have utilized and developed blood tests for prenatal and cancer screening and for conditions such as Down syndrome. By sequencing the RNA, which is floating in the blood, you can be able to spot expressions which are fluctuating of various genes which are associated with preterm birth. That is the process, that allows to determine women who are likely to give birth prematurely. Once that is diagnosed, doctors can take preventive measures and give the child a better chance of surviving.
- Custom Cancer Vaccinations: It is a treatment which has been developed to incite the natural defenses of the body to be able to destroy the cancer cells by ensuring that, they identify only the mutations which are unique to each tumor. The first cancer vaccine is just about to be personalized and you can read more on technopo.com about what technology is doing in this field. If it works as the researchers hope it will, then the vaccine will be able to trigger the immune system to be able to identify a tumor through its own unique mutation, effectively shutting down various types of cancer. When the body’s natural defense is used to selectively destroy the cells which have tumors only, unlike the other chemotherapies, the vaccine will limit the destruction of the cells which are healthy. The immune which will be attacking, will be tough in ensuring that it attacks any cancer cells after the initial treatment commences. These vaccines begun in 2008 after the project of the Human Genome were completed, when the first publication of geneticists about a sequence of tumor cells which are cancerous was published. After that, investigations to compare DNA of tumor cells began and it is that which confirmed there are thousands of mutations in cancerous cells which tend to be unique to each tumor. Studies lead to a vaccine, which contained copies of the mutations that could catalyze the immune system of the body to produce T cells, which attack, seek out, and destroy all cancerous cells which are harboring them.
- Carbon dioxide catcher: With the several technologies around the globe which you can access at com, there is one which is an affordable and practical way to be able to capture carbon dioxide from the air. Even if the emission of carbon dioxide is slowed down, the greenhouse gas warming effect can be around for several years to come. To be in a position to prevent this dangerous rise in temperature, the world will have to remove at least 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the current century. Through a direct air capture, scientists have found out that, it is possible for machines to pull this for using less than $100 each ton. This is cheaper than earlier estimates which were way too expensive to afford. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, you will need to think about what you will have to do with it.