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DNA Technology Posts Dramatic Speed
Increases
Wired Science July 1, 2008
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
recently sequenced its trillionth
base pair of DNA, highlighting just
how fast genome sequencing
technology has improved this
century. That speed is thanks to the
technology underlying genomics
research, which has been improving
exponentially every couple of years,
similar to the way computer tech
improves...
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'Gordon Gekko' trading bot profits
from mood swings
New Scientist news service July 1, 2008
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A University of Southampton, UK
researcher has developed a new
trading program that can adjust how
aggressively it trades to match
market conditions....
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Penguin-Recognition Software
Technology Review July 1, 2008
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Scientists studying a colony of
rare penguins on a remote South
African island are using
sophisticated object-recognition
software -- originally developed for
recognizing individual human faces
-- to identify and track individual
animals, an approach that they
believe could transform conservation
fieldwork. (Tilo Burghardt) The
Penguin...
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Robot Learns to Use Tools
Technology Review July 1, 2008
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The UMass Mobile Manipulator,
developed at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, is able to
learn to use objects that it has
never encountered before. (Dov Katz)
UMan uses a regular webcam to look
down at a table from above. By
analyzing differences between
adjacent pixels, it guesses where an
object's edges might be found. Then
it...
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Nanoparticles protect a potent
anticancer drug, allow it to be
taken orally
KurzweilAI.net July 2, 2008
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Children's Hospital Boston
researchers have used protective
nanoparticles to turn a potent
anticancer medicine, TNP-470, into a
nontoxic drug that can be taken
orally. Lodamin nanoparticle The
original TNP-470 opened up
anti-angiogenesis (angiogenesis is
the formation of new blood vessels)
as a new way to treat cancer, but
had neurotoxic...
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