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The impression of the tissues of the human body happens

The first clinical trials are due to start in 18 months.

For two years, the Poietis company, specialized in 3D printing of living biological tissues (bioprinting), has been engaged in a therapeutic project.

Associated with the hospitals of Marseille (APHM), it is working on a first clinical trial of a bio-printed skin, carried out with the patient's cells.

“Today, to our knowledge, there are no clinical trials of this type that have started internationally,” explains Fabien Guillemot, the co-founder and technical director of Poietis.

We are really at the very beginning of the therapeutic application of this technology which opens up enormous prospects ”.

Bioprinting would make it possible to graft skin to all those who need it: burns, accidents, chronic wounds, skin cancer… “At first, we focus on the skin, but we have other projects on the cartilage or on the heart valve, he continues.

The same platform is compatible with printing all types of human body tissue ”.

A clinical trial that could well make some transhumanists jealous.

Space tourism is for this year

Elon Musk's dream should come true at the end of 2021. At the end of the year, four tourists are expected to circle the Earth for several days as part of the Inspiration 4 mission of Jared Isaacman, a young American billionaire passionate about space exploration and founder of the company Shift4 Payments.

“This is the first step towards a world where everyone can travel in the stars,” enthuses Jared Isaacman to AFP outside SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne.

The competition is open to residents of the United States over the age of 18 but does not require exceptional physical or technical skills.

We are no longer very far from tourist visits to the Moon.

And a move to Mars?

Electric airliners for 2030?

Little by little, the green plane is taking shape.

The American start-up Wright Electric associated with EasyJet presented at the end of January 2020 a program for its electric motor capable, according to the company, of carrying 186 passengers.

The goal was to achieve a 100% electric aircraft by 2030.

For its part, the American company H3X Technologies seems to be well under way.

It is close to solving the problem of engine weight, seeking to design an electric motor as powerful as those that exist by dividing its weight by three.

Because, one of the main challenges is to reduce the mass of the battery to a minimum while storing as much energy as possible.

It's not quite there, but its engine has one of the best density / weight / power ratios.

According to Futura Sciences, the spokesperson for H3X Technologies hopes to see its engine fitted to small electric airplanes and future flying taxis.

The ecological airliner could arrive on time and by then we will probably be able to fly over traffic jams in a taxi.

AI creates an artificial human genome

In an article published in early February in the journal PLoS Genetics, a European team announced that it had succeeded in creating entire sequences of artificial human DNA.

And this thanks to artificial intelligence.

The researchers trained their neural networks using a database made up of sequences from 2,500 people.

Artificial genomes have ended up reproducing characteristics of real genomes so that it is difficult to distinguish them from real ones.

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Computational power has not made it possible to reproduce an entire genome, only bits and pieces.

But this breakthrough could have great utility in biomedical research where genomic data are difficult to access for ethical reasons.

Thanks to these artificial genomes, we could notably understand our evolutionary past.

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