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The social media firm wants students to help combat the mountain of discarded hardware by building a biodegradable server that can be flung on to the compost

Facebook set up its Open Compute project with the aim of designing affordable, eco-friendly servers, and now has thrown down the gauntlet to students at Purdue University in the U.S., to come up with a design for a dissolvable server chassis, the Daily Mail reports.

"We think there's enormous potential here, as servers are sometimes replaced as often as every two to three years. And even though the steel in those server chassis is usually recycled, we think it's worth exploring designs that retain the needed resiliency but push the boundaries of sustainability," Open Compute said of the ambitious project.

According to the paper, the housings are typically made from steel, which can be recycled, but the project aims to move toward an even more sustainable design made from entirely biodegradable materials, according to a report on businessinsider.com.

If the project is a success it could see the creation of a computer server that will eventually break down entirely and decompose after it is discarded, the paper said.

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Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced that its synthetic hepatitis B, or HBV, therapeutic vaccine generated strong T cell responses that eliminated targeted liver cells in mice. This data points to the DNA vaccine's potential to clear HBV infection and thereby prevent liver cancer in humans, an encouraging development given that nearly one-third of the world's population is infected with hepatitis B, with 400 million at risk of developing liver cancer. In the study, Inovio researchers and collaborators constructed a DNA vaccine encoding an HBV core antigen using the SynCon vaccine technology and administered it via Inovio's proprietary electroporation-based delivery technology. Researchers observed that the vaccine induced strong "killer" T cells in an animal model. Importantly, those killer T cells, while found systemically, were also present in the liver and provided clearance of HBV antigen-expressing liver cells without inducing liver damage. The company is also investigating additional HBV antigens to develop a multi-component vaccine that can provide the host immune system multiple targets to clear the hepatitis B virus and infected liver cells.

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Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in the fight against cancer and are working to find a way to get the body's natural killer cells to eliminate cancerous cells.

Researchers at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have discovered a new molecule that a cancer cell can produce on its surface to convince the body's natural killer cells it poses no danger.

The research team, led by Dr Dan Andrews and Professor Mark Smyth from the Cellular Immunology Laboratory at the centre, says the cancer cells fool the body's natural immune defences into ignoring their threat.

Dr Andrews said the discovery would open the door to the development of new treatments to interrupt this deception.

The findings were published overnight in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Immunology.

Dr Andrews says each natural killer cell is part of a roving biological security team, performing sweeping scans by temporarily binding one of its receptors to a corresponding molecule on every cell's surface, like a key into a lock.

"When a cell becomes infected or damaged, it loses these surface molecules; when a natural killer cell cannot find a lock to bind to, it recognises that cell as a threat and destroys it," he says.

Researchers from around the world have been hunting for each lock to correspond to the 10 identified natural killer cell surface keys, but only investigating the MHC-I class of molecule, or classical MHC-I.

The lock Dr Andrews and his team have discovered, called H2-M3, is a non-classical MHC-I molecule.

"Now we have identified the role H2-M3 plays in cancer growth, we can learn more about how it binds to natural killer cell receptors and plan new therapies to specifically target these types of interactions," Dr Andrews said.

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