Exoskeleton for the 2015 Breakthrough Prizes at NASA

10 responses to “Exoskeleton for the 2015 Breakthrough Prizes at NASA”

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   jurvetson

   Nov 10, 2014 at 7:54 am

   Elon Musk and Kate Beckinsale Jon Hamm and Laurene Powell JobsCameron Diaz & Dick Costolo of Twitter Undulating wave overhead The Brin family together again JW Blue Label for me tonight >Singing

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   brewbooks

   Nov 10, 2014 at 8:17 am

   This is neat but what about the winners? They are important too.
   breakthroughprize.org/?controller=Page&action=laureat…

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   jurvetson

   Nov 10, 2014 at 4:14 pm

   Absolutely. That link is not the list of winners though. I added a link up in the caption.

   P.S. For some strange reason, the breakthrough prize URL will not show up on flickr as a link. I tried several times. So I created a TinyURL that redirects to it. I have never seen that before on flickr.

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   jurvetson

   Nov 10, 2014 at 4:24 pm

   I especially liked the life sciences prizes:

   • Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for harnessing an ancient mechanism of bacterial immunity into a powerful and general technology for editing genomes, with wide-ranging implications across biology and medicine. This is the Cas9 discovery behind CRISPR.

   * Alim Louis Benabid for the discovery and pioneering work on the development of high-frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS), which has revolutionized the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. One of his patients, who used to be a writing contortionist bound to a wheel chair, was now able to walk on stage to present the award… a very touching moment.

   * C. David Allis for the discovery of covalent modifications of histone proteins and their critical roles in the regulation of gene expression and chromatin organization, advancing the understanding of diseases ranging from birth defects to cancer.

   * Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of a new world of genetic regulation by microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that inhibit translation or destabilize complementary mRNA targets.

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   PeterThoeny

   Nov 12, 2014 at 7:41 am

   Wonderful shot of Hangar One. I wish Google would not skin it over, I like it the way it is.

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   brewbooks

   Nov 13, 2014 at 3:19 am

   [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] Thanks, appreciate the update. DBS for Parkinson’s is quite remarkable. I understand a little of CRISPR which is sort of a gene editor (learned about that from Eric Lander’s class on cell biology)

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   sbove

   Nov 13, 2014 at 7:24 pm

   Powershot s110 still crankin’ out awesome shots.

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   sbove

   Nov 13, 2014 at 7:26 pm

   [https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterthoeny] Transparent skin? A hindenberg class derigable with a mostly transparent mylar/dacron skin would have been something to behold! Probaby a lot lighter too.

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   PeterThoeny

   Nov 13, 2014 at 7:38 pm

   [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbove]: Good idea!

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    jurvetson

    Nov 15, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    That is a cool idea. Google is building a huge one… and here are my Zeppelin photos over the years

    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbove] — I pulled the S110 out of retirement because it is my thinnest camera, and I wanted something I could pack in the tux. By the way, all of the photos with people on stage were at maximum zoom and all shots were low-light, hand-held, no flash.

    Hangar One memories
    

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