Duke University & Cambridge University - Artificial 'mini-lungs' grown in a lab allow scientists to watch how the coronavirus infects human cells in 'major breakthrough'

Title:

Artificial 'mini-lungs' grown in a lab allow scientists to watch how the coronavirus infects human cells in 'major breakthrough'

 

Author:

Ryan Morrison

 

Published:

Daily Mail, 23 October 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8871903/Artificial-mini-lungs-grown-lab-let-scientists-watch-coronavirus-infects-human-cells.html

 

From the article:

* Researchers took stem cells and had them grow into cells found in the lungs 

* They then had them produce 3D models of the lung cells Covid-19 infects 

* They can use their new models to track the spread of the deadly virus in lungs 

* It's hoped doing so will allow them to develop new drugs to help treat the virus 

Coordinating complex behaviors between hundreds of robots

Title:
Coordinating complex behaviors between hundreds of robots

Author:
Ken Kingery, Duke University

Published:
Tech Xplore, 1 July 2020
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-07-complex-behaviors-hundreds-robots.html

From the article:
In a new paper published online on April 29 in the International Journal of Robotics Research, Zavlanos and his recent Ph.D. graduate student, Yiannis Kantaros, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, propose a new approach to this challenge called STyLuS*, for large-Scale optimal Temporal Logic Synthesis, that can solve problems massively larger than what current algorithms can handle, with hundreds of robots, tens of thousands of rooms and highly complex tasks, in a small fraction of the time.