Innovations News: 10 August 2025 - 18 August 2025

Rewinding the Clock: How Yamanaka Factors Are Resetting Aging Cells
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Rewinding the Clock: How Yamanaka Factors Are Resetting Aging Cells

Shinya Yamanaka discovered the OSKM factors—Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc—in 2006 to reprogram mature cells into pluripotent stem cells. In 2016, Izpisúa Belmonte and colleagues showed partial in vivo reprogramming in progeria mice by cycling OSKM for 2–4 days with rest, yielding
August 18, 2025
The Secret “Zombie Cell” Killers: Niche Senolytic Drugs Fighting Aging’s Clock
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The Secret “Zombie Cell” Killers: Niche Senolytic Drugs Fighting Aging’s Clock

In 2015, a Mayo Clinic and Scripps Research team showed that a combination of dasatinib and quercetin selectively kills senescent cells in aged mice, improving frailty and heart function. The first-generation senolytics include dasatinib and quercetin and entered human safety testing for
August 17, 2025
Asteroid Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Scout and Mine Space’s Richest Rocks
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Asteroid Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Scout and Mine Space’s Richest Rocks

OSIRIS-REx, the NASA asteroid-sample-return mission (2016–2023), delivered a ~250-gram Bennu soil sample to Utah in September 2023, with early analysis showing carbon-rich material around 5% by weight and water-bearing clays. The Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, targets the metal-rich asteroid 16
August 16, 2025
The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms
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The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms

Over 350 million LoRaWAN devices and sensors were connected globally as of mid-2024, with projections to exceed 3.5 billion by 2030. The LoRa Alliance was founded in 2015, LoRaWAN was officially approved as a global ITU standard in late 2021, and the
August 15, 2025
No-Code AI Revolution: How Non-Techies Are Building Machine Learning Models
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No-Code AI Revolution: How Non-Techies Are Building Machine Learning Models

No-code machine learning enables non-technical users to build, train, and deploy ML models through visual interfaces, creating a new class of citizen data scientists. Leading platforms—Google Cloud AutoML (Vertex AI), Microsoft Azure ML, DataRobot, Akkio, Obviously AI, and Amazon SageMaker Canvas—automate data
August 10, 2025