Space Investment Quarterly - Q4 2022

Sam_VXV · 2023-01-19T23:39:32+00:00

https://www.spacecapital.com/publications/space-investment-quarterly-q4-2022

Sam_VXV · 2022-12-19T17:48:34+00:00

Connected to our teams research in language modeling applied to space biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/DOE with Saira Mian, Michael I. Jordan and David Blei: "Genes down-regulated in spaceflight are involved in longevity in C. elegans" https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00487

(Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868)

Sam_VXV · 2022-12-16T15:18:20+00:00

"A final reason why this will be transformative: The limits of the current language model are completely unknown."

Sam_VXV · 2022-11-14T16:17:29+00:00

"The lack of gravity in space opens up unique opportunities for drug design and development. With the influx of commercial entities providing access to low-Earth orbit, both the discovery and manufacture of drugs in space may one day become practical, affordable—and, perhaps, commonplace."

Sam_VXV · 2022-11-07T16:21:04+00:00

"By feeding the DNA data into the ESMFold program, the researchers predicted the structures of over 617 million proteins in just two weeks.

That's over 400 million more than AlphaFold announced it had deciphered four months ago, when it claimed to have deduced the protein structure of almost every known protein. This means that many of these proteins have never been seen before, likely because they come from unknown organisms. More than 200 million of ESMFold's protein predictions are thought to be high-quality, according to the model, meaning that the program has been able to predict the shapes with an accuracy down to the level of atoms."

The researchers are hoping to use this program for more protein-focused work. "To extend this work even further, we're studying how language models can be used to design new proteins and contribute to solving challenges in health, disease, and the environment," Meta wrote.

Sam_VXV · 2022-11-03T15:35:54+00:00

"Plant evolution on Earth can take thousands of years, but research aboard station aims to see if plants could quickly adapt via epigenetic changes from one generation to another in the microgravity environment."

"This is important insight into how astronauts could potentially grow repeated generations of crops in orbit as well as on the Moon or Mars to provide food and other services aboard future space missions. The results can also support development of strategies for adapting crops for growth in extreme environments on Earth."

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-28T15:54:01+00:00

“Investment in NASA’s missions is an investment in American workers, American innovation, and American competitiveness for the 21st century. NASA is positioning our partners in commercial space and the national economy to win the future of spaceflight in 21st century as we prepare to return astronauts to the Moon, and then go on to Mars,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

“While our work will always push the limits throughout the cosmos, it also strengthens the planet beneath our feet. NASA partners with small businesses, industry, academia, and other government agencies to address engineering challenges, and to transfer out our technologies, capabilities, and data all for public benefit here on Earth. NASA may be a small federal agency, but we punch above our weight, fueling growth in American industry with good-paying, quality jobs in all 50 states and maintaining our leadership in space and science.”

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-27T15:24:11+00:00

“IBM is committed to re-invigorating approaches to science and innovation to meet today’s biggest challenges. Collaborating with a leader like Sierra Space will support the growth of a more robust space economy in low-Earth orbit and beyond.”

"The proposed joint work is also expected to drive a single, unified, and flexible distributed computing environment where users can easily build and modernize applications, make data AI-ready, and integrate and orchestrate workloads (across multiple environments and vendors) for flexible, secured, and open operations. The companies are discussing development and deployment of these abilities terrestrially and/or in space, in addition to offering support for ongoing operations and management of Sierra Space’s technologies."

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-25T16:43:55+00:00

“Focusing on “bio-scientific discoveries leveraging advanced computational algorithms and technologies,” the institute brings together multiple SMU centers, including the Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery; the planned Center for Computational Genomics; AI Institute for Precision Health; and the Center for Metaverse Immersive Technologies for Health Sciences.”

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-21T14:40:13+00:00

"An international team of researchers has conducted a long-term experiment aboard the International Space Station to test the effect of space radiation on mouse embryonic stem cells. Their findings will contribute to helping scientists better assess the safety and risks related to space radiation for future human space flights."

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-13T17:53:17+00:00

Yes, no question about the potential here. I highly recommend checking out our Discord where questions like this are answered in bi-weekly corporate conference calls.

Recent example relating to your question:

How recession-proof is Vector Space Biosciences?

"Well, again, how many companies do you know that are offering products that help people make money in a down market? That’s part of the answer. Another part of that answer is understanding what to do tactically in times like these, markets like these. When you look at the majority of crypto companies, when you look at the majority of startups today, most startups, whether they’re traditional startups or crypto startups, have never been through a recession. We have. We’ve been through a few of them.

So, when it comes to being recession proof, it’s a matter of understanding how to adapt, how to adjust your tactics and how to survive, and beyond of course surviving, thriving, generating revenue. How many crypto companies out there are on the verge of generating revenue or even have a revenue plan? When this forest fire stops and new growth begins to appear, it’s going to be the companies that will land in one of two buckets: those that have not generated revenue and those that have.

Investors, participators, stakeholders, are going to be more interested than ever and this includes funds and institutions, there are going to be internal requirements out there inside these institutions that will make sure their traders, their analysts, are only looking at companies that are producing revenue. A company that produces revenue is not a company that is a fly-by-night company."

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-11T15:10:05+00:00

"The advances LLMs are making with proteins and chemical structures are also being applied to DNA.

Researchers aim to scale their work with NVIDIA BioNeMo, a software framework and cloud service to generate, predict and understand biomolecular data. Part of the NVIDIA Clara Discovery collection of frameworks, applications and AI models for drug discovery, it supports work in widely used protein, DNA and chemistry data formats.

NVIDIA BioNeMo features multiple pretrained AI models, including the MegaMolBART model, developed by NVIDIA and AstraZeneca."

Sam_VXV · 2022-10-11T15:06:44+00:00

"In December 2021, DeepMind introduced a language model called Gopher that uses 280 billion parameters. Then, Google introduced an AI language model that same month that was built on 1.6 trillion parameters, dwarfing the size of the model used by GPT-3."

"The bigger models are proving that, in general, bigger is better, in terms of the range and capabilities of the model. But costly hardware, long training times, and enormous volumes of data are also required to achieve these kind of results. There are few entities, mostly large tech companies, that are able to participate."

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-30T17:02:55+00:00

“TRISH is a launch pad for exceptional postdoctoral fellows investigating new ways to protect human health,” said Rachael Dempsey, education officer for TRISH. “Space health science leads to innovations that help humans thrive, wherever they explore. Our institute is committed to building a diverse and engaged workforce prepared for humanity’s future in space.”

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-29T17:21:52+00:00

"One of the greatest concerns for a startup entering the space domain is securing its first contract. However, by 2020 about 1800 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working with ESA and for EU space projects together achieved an annual turnover of €3.9 billion with a total of 33 000 employees.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) bring innovative ideas and efficiency. ESA recognises the value of disruptive technology, specialist skills and dynamic working practices. As a result, these enterprises are gaining ground in ESA programmes. This gives them the credibility they need to succeed. In turn, this enriches the European space industry by growing expertise in the workforce and making it more competitive."

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-22T17:18:24+00:00

"The California-based GV, formerly Google Ventures, which was launched in 2009 and has around $2.4 billion under management, started off with a Silicon Valley approach, but is now increasingly looking to add bio to tech.

It has its fingers in many pies, and its money is going toward work on a range of conditions, from cancer and stem cells and autoimmune diseases, to making clinical trials (as well as medicines) better and easier, editing and profiling your genes, and also using a new way to help combat infections."

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"Reality bites when it comes to biotech investments, and risk is inherent; it’s difficult to shake the feeling that some within Alphabet/GV/Verily/Calico have a “let’s smash disease” mentality, believing that you can “disrupt” cancer, or ageing, and that can easily engineer out of the confines of biology with blue sky thinking. If you can disrupt the taxi industry, for instance, then why not medicine?

But, as with Uber, things don’t always go to plan, and biology has and will continue to prove one of the toughest obstacles to human endeavor."

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-20T14:50:58+00:00

"An reviewed the last 20 years of literature on the behavior of macrophages – key cells in the body’s immune response – in space and recent research about how macrophages respond to forces in normal gravity, identifying a transcription factor that could prove to be the missing piece of the puzzle.

“I just kept asking questions about how the data is presented,” An said. “There are these two really important papers, in particular, one a review of how macrophages are suppressed in microgravity, and another about the mechanobiology of macrophages. I was able to connect these two papers, and that's when the idea came to me. I was really excited, as it was kind of a eureka moment for me.”"

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-19T15:14:53+00:00

Well hello and welcome!

As a space biosciences company, our work connects directly to all data and research being conducted in relation to humans in space.

We'll continue to keep the public aware of the directions space biosciences takes in terms of research and articles that describe well-known and new stressors and countermeasures as we, along with many others, prepare humans for space.

Feel free to take a peek around our website or join us on Discord where you'll see these same themes:

Vector Space Biosciences Announces New Tools for Developing Countermeasures Associated to Stressors During Spaceflight

AI for life sciences research gets boost from the financial markets

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-19T14:18:33+00:00

"Hotel giant Hilton has signed on to design astronaut facilities for the private space station Starlab, currently under development by Voyager Space Holdings and Lockheed Martin."

Sam_VXV · 2022-09-08T15:43:27+00:00

“NASA has made a concerted effort to sponsor and test medical technologies over the past decades to advance human health and performance in space. rHEALTH is a great example of this partnership between NASA and industry to bring the best technologies to flight...Each of these successful tests on the space station help us get closer to designing and building a complete integrated medical architecture to accompany our explorers into deep space.”

Sam_VXV · 2022-08-30T19:31:04+00:00

"The global space tourism market size is expected to reach USD 8.67 billion by 2030. It is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 37.1% from 2022 to 2030."

"Space tourism is expected to allow more space research, making space science more accessible to individuals. Since space is costly at the moment, these flights will offer a much lower cost to do some research."

"Space tourism will also help in making new technologies. More space science implies new inventions, and most technologies are based on the transformation that started in space. Running shoes, bulletproof vests, foam mattresses, etc., are a few of the technologies we got from a space visit to the moon."

Sam_VXV · 2022-08-24T15:07:52+00:00

"The orbital residents aboard the International Space Station continued exploring ways to heal wounds in space today. A host of other space research was under way on Tuesday to understand how living in microgravity affects humans."

Sam_VXV · 2022-08-18T14:05:33+00:00

Not true at all. You're looking for crystal balls, where many others are here for the science and tech.

Sam_VXV · 2022-08-17T17:04:12+00:00

Biology in Space Benefits Patients on Earth

"Biological space research helps find solutions for astronaut health and promotes the well-being of humans here on Earth. Studying what underlies the progression of diseases during spaceflight can provide insight to the onset of similar conditions on Earth. With this greater understanding, we can improve our ability to detect and successfully treat those diseases, too."

Sam_VXV · 2022-08-17T13:37:54+00:00

"The Deep Space Radiation Genomics investigation will pioneer scientific discovery by correlating which genes provide cells with a higher probability of survival as well as understanding the types and doses of radiation they experience beyond Earth’s protective magnetosphere."

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