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EMCymatics | 1 year ago | on: Augmenting biological intelligence with RL in C.elegans using optogenetics [pdf]

They have already done optogenetics on non-human primates.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2023.1193...

However, I think those methods of triggering opsins are rather invasive (implants). I don't think it would be hard to design light activated opsins to recieve frequencies in the optical window of skin/bone. If I remember correctly the human body is somewhat resistant genetic transfection, so we have that going for us, which is great.

There is an optical window for skin in the near infrared band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_window_in_biolog...

Bone optical windows are being explored though that has some interference with water.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016SPIE.9689E..4JS/abstra...

Better watch what you put in your body /s

EMCymatics | 2 years ago | on: Meta outage

Offline gaming should never have been destroyed.

Wonder what data they collect from gamers.

EMCymatics | 2 years ago | on: Combating olive oil fraud with nuclear innovations

They buried the techniques in a few places.

Laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) https://appliedspectra.com/technology/libs.html

Laser ablation molecular istopic spectroscopy (LAMIS) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ja/c5ja0...

Linked in the article is another article that elaborates

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/new-crp-implementation-...

*Enhancing Nuclear Analytical Techniques to Meet the Needs of Forensic Science’ (F11021)*

https://www.iaea.org/projects/crp/d52040

>This project will consider applications based on hand-held and portable devices including (but not limited to) ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), near infra-red (NIR) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers and some bench-top laboratory instruments that have become ‘field’ transportable including laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS), laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry (LAMIS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry (MS) and multi-spectral imaging (MSI). This CRP is conducted jointly with the Nuclear Sciences Instrumentation Laboratory under CRP G42007.

*‘Field Deployable Analytical Methods to Assess the Authenticity, Safety and Quality of Food (D52040/G42007)*

https://www.iaea.org/projects/crp/f11021

>ion and neutron beam techniques for elemental and molecular analysis is well established and such services are available through a great number of laboratories in the IAEA Member States operating ion beam accelerator or research reactor centers

Isotope spectroscopy I knew of:

For carbon/water isotope determination with spectroscopy you can use cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) for gas state stable isotopes (water, CO, CO2, CH4). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_ring-down_spectroscopy https://www.picarro.com/environmental/support/literature/mea...

Picaro instrument is ok at precision, cleaning is not fun, and matrix effects suck. Laser lifetime leaves much to be desired.

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