Though an essential gateway to the liver, NTCP had not been well described until now. Na+-taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide (NTCP) is a protein located exclusively in the membrane of liver cells that enables recycling of bile acid molecules. It is also the cellular receptor of human hepatitis B and D viruses …
Read More »Ethiopia joins Kenya in rolling out 5G network in eastern Africa
By TESFA-ALEM TEKLE Ethio Telecom, the state-owned telecom service provider in Ethiopia, on Monday launched 5G mobile phone service making Ethiopia among the leading few African countries, including Kenya in eastern Africa, to roll out the technology. According to Ethio Telecom, the network will be available on hotspot areas in …
Read More »Education Now Needs a Real National Focus. Here’s How That Can Happen.
Text size People walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus on March 14, 2022 in Berkeley, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images About the author: Stanley Litow is Accenture Professor of the Practice at Duke University and a trustee at the State University of New York. He previously served as president of …
Read More »Will mRNA Technology Companies Spawn Innovation Ecosystems?
Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of mRNA-based vaccines has attracted considerable attention to the prospect of mRNA technology serving as a platform that can …
Read More »Netflix’s Choose or Die, Ti West’s X, and every other movie you can stream from home this weekend
This weekend Choose or Die, the 2022 video-game horror film starring Iola Evans (Carnival Row) and Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), premieres on Netflix. If you’re not looking for 1980s-themed throwback horror and haunted technology à la 2004’s Stay Alive, not to worry — there’s plenty of great new releases on …
Read More »Planet Earth’s Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business
On a brisk Monday in Houston in early March, dozens of protesters gathered across the street from the giant Hilton hotel hosting CERAWeek, the energy industry’s hallmark annual conference. Their signs accused the corporate executives inside of betraying humanity in pursuit of financial return. STOP EXTRACTING OUR FUTURE, read one. …
Read More »Tech billionaires start foundation to bring ‘lost glory back’ for Indian electronics products and brands
Depth in manufacturing is a key requirement to gain self-reliance in the electronic industry, and a special thrust on designing locally can help achieve this, said HCL Founder Ajai Chowdhry on Wednesday in the capital. “Government should have a special thrust on designing in every PLI scheme as this will …
Read More »The Future of Electronics: New Fermi Arcs Discovered
Newly discovered Fermi arcs that can be controlled through magnetism could be the future of electronics based on electron spins. These new Fermi arcs were discovered by a team of researchers from Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, as well as collaborators from the United States, Germany, and the United …
Read More »This is as good as movies are going to get
Are you one of the people who hates Hollywood because Hollywood only serves up superhero movies and sequels … most of which are sequels to superhero movies? Well, here’s some encouraging news: Two of the highest-grossing movies of 2022 are romantic comedies: The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing …
Read More »Google Finance Head: Anything That Can Be Automated, We Strive to Automate
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is working to automate as many finance tasks as possible as it looks to reduce the amount of manual work that its employees have to do. The Mountain View, Calif.-based software giant is using a combination of tools, including artificial intelligence, automation, the cloud, a data lake …
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