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UK's first hybrid embryos created
BBC News April 1, 2008
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Scientists at Newcastle University
have created part-human, part-animal
hybrid embryos for the first time in
the UK. The Catholic Church has
branded them "experiments of
Frankenstein proportion." The
embryos survived for up to three
days and are part of medical
research into a range of illnesses.
They were created by injecting DNA...
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Intel Makes a Push Into Pocket-Size
Internet Devices
New York Times April 2, 2008
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Intel plans to proclaim Wednesday
that the next big thing in consumer
gadgets will be the "Internet in
your pocket." At a developer event
in China, the company will display a
range of Mobile Internet Devices, or
MIDs--wireless Internet devices that
Intel believes will fill a gap
between smartphones and laptops,
ranging from advanced...
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Blind to Change, Even as It Stares
Us in the Face
New York Times April 1, 2008
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The results of change blindness
studies and other experiments
strongly suggest that the visual
system can focus on only one or very
few objects at a time (maybe 30 or
40 objects per second), and that
anything lying outside a given
moment's cone of interest gets short
shrift. This is because the brain
has evolved mechanisms for combating
data...
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Bugs provoke the immune system into
fighting cancer
New Scientist news service April 2, 2008
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Advaxis has developed a method of
deliberately infecting people with a
harmless version of the bacteria
that cause listeriosis to to
kick-start the body's immune system
and increase its ability to destroy
tumors....
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Google does April Fools': 'Custom
time' and a Mars trip
CNET News.Com April 1, 2008
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Google's Gmail rolled out a fake
"custom time" feature, which
purports to let users send e-mails
into the past and consequently never
miss important deadlines again. And
starting in 2014, Google's home page
announced, Virgin founder Richard
Branson and Google co-founders Larry
Page and Sergey Brin will be leading
hundreds of users on one of the...
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At Hearing, Real and Virtual Worlds
Collide
Washington Post April 2, 2008
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The congressional subcommittee on
telecommunications and the Internet
held a hearing on the promise and
perils of the online virtual world,
broadcast simultaneously in Second...
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Hydrogen Storage In Nanoparticles
Works: Outlook For Hydrogen Cars
Improved
Science Daily April 1, 2008
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Dutch chemist Kees Balde has
discovered that 30-nanometer
particles of the metal hydride
sodium alanate make storage and
release of hydrogen possible,
allowing for it to be more easily
used in mobile applications. With
the addition of a titanium catalyst,
a further reduction in the particle
size to 20 nanometers is possible,
allowing for even...
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Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks
of Nanocomputers
PhysOrg.com April 1, 2008
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University of Oklahoma researchers
have investigated a new variant of
multidimensional hypercubes as
computational elements of
nanocomputers: the "M-hypercube,"
which could provide a
higher-dimensional layout to support
three-dimensional integrated
circuits and the quantum properties
of nanocomputers. The unique
structure of hypercubes provides...
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Algae as a hydrogen fuel source
KurzweilAI.net April 2, 2008
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Argonne National Laboratory
scientists are engineering algae's
photosynthesis process to produce
hydrogen gas by adding the enzyme
hydrogenase. Algae that naturally
have hydrogenase produce only small
volumes of hydrogen. With the enzyme
added to photosynthesis the algae
should produce as much hydrogen as
oxygen. See Also Algae-Based...
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Nanomachine kills cancer cells
PhysOrg.com April 1, 2008
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UCLA researchers have developed a
"nanoimpeller" nanomachine that
stores anticancer drugs inside pores
and then releases them into cancer
cells in response to light. They
claim it's the first light-powered
nanomachine that operates inside a
living cell. The interior of the
pores are coated with azobenzene, a
chemical that oscillates between...
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Breeding the Oil Bug
Popular Science April 1, 2008
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Amyris Biotechnologies scientists
are engineering bacteria to make
carbon-neutral gasoline. E. coli
make hydrocarbons Enzyme genes added
to the bacteria will allow them to
turn carbon-absorbing crops like
sugarcane into hydrocarbons....
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Uterine stem cells create neurons
that curb Parkinson's disease
KurzweilAI.net April 2, 2008
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Yale School of Medicine researchers
turned human uterine stem cells into
neurons that can boost dopamine
levels and partially correct
Parkinson's disease in mice. Yale
University News...
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No More Blind Spots: Drop Washes
Away Cataracts
Popular Science April 1, 2008
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Chakshu Research engineer Rajiv
Bhushan has invented eye drops that
break up the oxidative-stress-caused
accumulation of proteins and lipids
that makes up cataracts in the lens.
Now in phase 3 clinical trials, the
drops would be the first
non-surgical treatment for
cataracts....
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Live to 150, Can You Do It?
ABC News April 1, 2008
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Barbara Walters' new TV special,
"Live to Be 150 ... Can You Do It?"
airs on Tuesday, April 1, at 10 p.m.
ET on ABC. It will feature Ray
Kurzweil and other scientists, and
interviews with calorie restrictors
and guests who have reached at least
100....
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Manufacture and Sell Anything - in
Minutes
Wired Mar. 24, 2008
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With nothing more than a design,
amateurs can manufacture jewelry,
robots, T-shirts,
furniture--anything. No warehouses.
No minimum orders. And no money
down. Thousands are launching
instant businesses. Zazzle, of
Redwood City, California, offers a
dizzying array of user-designed
products from posters to tennis
shoes. Spreadshirt, founded in...
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Engineers make first 'active
matrix' display using nanowires
PhysOrg.com March 31, 2008
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Purdue University researchers have
created the first active-matrix
display using a new class of
transparent nanowire transistors and
circuits. Future applications
include e-paper, flexible color
monitors, and heads-up displays
embedded in car windshields....
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Nano-Softball Made of DNA
PhysOrg.com April 1, 2008
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Ruhr University scientists have
created a dodecahedron (a geometric
shape with twelve surfaces) from DNA
building blocks. The 20-nanometer
particles were self-assembled from
20 trisoligonucleotide building
blocks, consisting of a "branching
junction" and three short DNA
strands. Additional functional
molecules can be attached, allowing
for...
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Dreaming of a 3-D Web
New York Times Mar. 31, 2008
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Vivaty wants to offer 3-D chat
rooms and social environments on any
blog, Web site or social networking
page. These will be integrated into
the Web--smaller but easier to
access versions of massively
multiplayer platforms like Second...
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Nonelectric Hybrid Engines
Technology Review April 1, 2008
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A new kind of hybrid vehicle
developed by Ricardo UK could reduce
fuel consumption by 27 percent. The
improved fuel consumption
essentially comes from downsizing
the engine. It uses a piston head
that operates in both two- and
four-stroke mode, and that can
switch automatically between the two
modes, depending on the needs of the
engine. This...
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Laser medical scan does away with
biopsies
New Scientist news service Mar. 31, 2008
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Stanford University researchers
have developed a new noninvasive
medical imaging technique that can
reveal the chemical make-up and
shape of structures such as tumor
near the skin's surface. (PNAS) The
"Raman spectroscopy" scanning
technique uses safe, low-power
infrared lasers in combination with
nanoparticles, coated with
antibodies that...
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Artificial cell can make its own
genes
NewScientist.com news service April 1, 2008
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An "artificial cell" capable of
synthesising genes and making them
into proteins quickly and cheaply
has been developed by MIT
researchers. (David Kong/MIT) The
first part of the device synthezises
the genes using enzymes to join
together DNA strands from a pool of
short templates. The finished genes
are then copied to produce many...
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A Prosthesis for Balance
Technology Review Mar. 31, 2008
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Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
neuroscientists have built a
prosthesis to replace the balance
function of the inner ear's
vestibular system and are testing it
in monkeys. The prosthesis mimics
the orientation-sensing semicircular
canals. An external motion sensor
measures body rotation and a
microprocessor processes and
transfers that...
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A new way to fight cancer: fasting
before chemotherapy
PhysOrg.com Mar. 31, 2008
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University of Southern California
researchers studying mice found that
fasting for two days protected
healthy cells against chemotherapy.
The same chemotherapy dose killed
half of the normally fed mice and
caused lasting weight and energy
loss in survivors. Test tube
experiments with human cells
confirmed the finding. Starved
normal cells go...
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Quebec conference features
next-decade nanomedical and
telemedical breakthroughs
KurzweilAI.net Mar. 31, 2008
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The next decade's approach to
medicine is the focus on the 1st
Annual Unither Nanomedical &
Telemedical Technology Conference,
opening Wednesday April 2 in Quebec.
The three-day conference will
"explore wireless in vivo machines
and their future implementation in
the medical field," covering
cutting-edge developments in
nanomedicine, medical...
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