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The Future of Augmented Reality Ain’t Pokemon Go – NewCo Shift

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2017-07-17 NEWS

NewCo Shift

The Future of Augmented Reality Ain’t Pokemon Go
NewCo Shift
I figured this would also let me stuff my book full of 20-page digressions on how cooooool AR, synthetic biology, quantum computing, and other fields are (or rather, will be. You know — nine seconds from now). As it turns out, 20-page digressions

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2017-07-17 NEWS

Daily Mail

Would YOU try it? The bandage made from your own stem cells that can actually fix a dodgy knee
Daily Mail
This involved cutting a 3cm square of the stem cell patch and placing it around the torn meniscus via a small incision on his knee. The idea was that the stem cells would grow into new cartilage and repair the tear — a process that would take about 13

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2017-07-17 NEWS

CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia leads to remissions in clinical trial
EurekAlert (press release)
“It was not known whether CAR T-cells could be used to treat these high risk CLL patients,” said lead author Dr. Cameron Turtle, an immunotherapy researcher at Fred Hutch. “Our study shows that CD19 CAR T-cells are a highly promising treatment for CLL …