Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

An AI just beat top lawyers

The latest ‘man versus machine’ contest, conducted by legal AI platform LawGeex in the presence of law professors from Stanford University, Duke University School of Law, and University of Southern California. The contest pitted 20 experienced human lawyers against artificial intelligence (AI) technology  trained to evaluate legal contracts. AI with 94% accuracy beats human lawyers who just managed to achieve on an average 85% accuracy. The time taken by AI to complete the task was 26 minutes, while the human lawyers took 92 minutes on average.readmore@Mashable

Saturday, February 3, 2018

New Cancer Vaccine Developed, Going to Start Human Trial

Stanford University is now going to start human trial which includes 15 lymphomas patients with a new cancer therapy that can prime the immune system to eradicate tumors around the body. This treatment cured mice of lymphoma in 87 out of 90 cases and other three mice saw a return, which was successfully treated with a second dose. Similar results were seen in mice with breast, colon and melanoma cancers.The experiment used two immune-stimulating agents to boost cancer-fighting T-cells.readmore@MedStanford

Friday, February 2, 2018

World's 1st own cells grown ear developed in Chinese Lab

Chinese Scientists have grown a perfectly compatible new 3D-printed biodegradable mold ears in a lab and grafted it onto five patient, and they said was a world's 1st in regenerative medicine. Also, the implant was not rejected by the body and its shape & size matched perfectly as a normal ear. The age of all five children was between 6 and 9 years and all were born with a defect in one ear known as microtia, a condition in which the external ear is small and not formed properly.readmore@HT

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Watch Live On YouTube: The first 'Super Blue Blood Moon' in 152 years

NASA is streaming the Super Blue Blood Moon live on YouTube, occurring for the first time since 1866. A blue moon (a second full moon in a calendar month), a supermoon (when the moon is unusually close to Earth, making it 14%  bigger and 30% brighter than the smallest Full Moon).watchnow@YouTube

Saturday, January 27, 2018

World's rarest fish doubles known as new population discovered off Tasmanian coast

A team of divers from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and the citizen science project Reef Life Survey (RLS)  has discovered around 20-40 individuals of red handfish, believed to be the world's rarest fish, off the Australian coast. until the discovery, only 1 other population with an equivalent range of fish had been known nearby. because the fish walk on the seafloor rather than swimming, every site's space was restricted to fifty meters by twenty meters.readmore@UTAS