“In the past few years scientists have been finding something surprising—so-called cancer-driver mutations are also common in healthy tissue…When a person is middle aged more than half the surface of the oesophagus and nearly 10% of the lining of the stomach is covered by cells with cancer-driver mutations…It seems that cells with faulty DNA can be prevented from growing into full-blown cancers through the activity of healthy cells around them with beneficial mutations in their DNA. Encouraging those healthy cells to grow could become an effective strategy for stopping cancer…These discoveries suggest that new cancer-preventing drugs might help the body better limit the harm done by its own immune system.”
iRonCub3’s baby face is a relic of the 2004 iCub platform, which was originally developed at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
iRonCub is a robot project that has been running out of Italian scientist Daniele Pucci’s lab for several years. For the past decade, Pucci and his team have been working tirelessly on a jet-propulsion system that looks like it’s straight out of Tony Stark’s lab. This summer, Pucci finally unveiled the promise of flying humanoid robots through the iRonCub3 — a robot approximately the size and shape of a five-year-old child. He hopes that this robot–jet system can be deployed in disaster response scenarios such as floods or fires, where it’s difficult for human responders to reach victims. (via IEEE Spectrum)
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