iPAD Proになって画面が大型化するのが魅力の一つですが、それよりもインパクトがあるのがアップルペンシル。アニメーター、デザイナー、サイエンティスト、エンジニアなどクリエイティブな仕事をするプロフェッショナルのためのツールになるのかもしれません。
Animator at Disney are testing the Apple Pencil
iPAD Proでは、マイクロソフト社のワード、エクセル、パワーポイントも活用できるようです。
Apple Pencil – Demos
タブレットPCとスタイラスペンで手書きのような感覚が得られるのかといえば、まだまだそうでもないのが現状です。しかし、アップルが普通のスタイラスペンでなく、iPAD Proのため「アップルペンシル」を作りました。
Apple Pencil | Hands On
Genome-wide inactivation of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs)
Abstract The shortage of organs for transplantation is a major barrier to the treatment of organ failure. While porcine organs are considered promising, their use has been checked by concerns about transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) to humans. Here, we describe the eradication of all PERVs in a porcine kidney epithelial cell line (PK15). We first determined the PK15 PERV copy number to be 62. Using CRISPR-Cas9, we disrupted all 62 copies of the PERV pol gene and demonstrated a >1000-fold reduction in PERV transmission to human cells using our engineered cells. Our study shows that CRISPR-Cas9 multiplexability can be as high as 62 and demonstrates the possibility that PERVs can be inactivated for clinical application to porcine-to-human xenotransplantation. Published Online October 11 2015 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aad1191
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
大村智博士の業績に関するレビューアーティクル。
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Andy CRUMP and Satoshi ŌMURA Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2011 Feb 10; 87(2): 13–28. Abstract Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world. Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites in commercial livestock and companion animals. It was quickly discovered to be ideal in combating two of the world’s most devastating and disfiguring diseases which have plagued the world’s poor throughout the tropics for centuries. It is now being used free-of-charge as the sole tool in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally. It has also been used to successfully overcome several other human diseases and new uses for it are continually being found. This paper looks in depth at the events surrounding ivermectin’s passage from being a huge success in Animal Health into its widespread use in humans, a development which has led many to describe it as a “wonder” drug.
2015年10月1日(木)にアメリカ、オレゴン州にあるアムクア・コミュニティ・カレッジ(Umpqua Community College)で一人の男が大学構内で銃を乱射し、学生ら10人が死亡(射殺された犯人一人を含めた人数)したと報道されています。警察との銃撃戦で死亡した犯人は同大学の26歳の学生クリス・ハーパー・マーサー(Chris Harper Mercer)と特定されました。なお、初期の報道は混乱し、死亡者数や犯人の情報が異なって伝えられていたようです。
UCC Oregon Gunman is Chris Harper Mercer, 26, Body Armor, 3 Pistols, Long Gun, Full Ammunition