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Nanosensors for Medical Monitoring
Technology Review July 8, 2008
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Vista Therapeutics is developing
sensitive devices for continuous
bedside monitoring of blood
biomarkers for detecting organ
failure and other problems in
seriously injured or ill patients,
such as those in the ICU after
suffering a heart attack or
traumatic injuries from a car
accident. The devices use silicon
nanowires developed by Harvard...
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A Picowatt Processor
Technology Review July 8, 2008
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University of Michigan have made a
processor (the Phoenix) that
measures just one millimeter square
with a power consumption so low (2.8
picojoules of energy per computing
cycle) that emerging thin-film
batteries of the same size could
power it for 10 years or more. At
this scale, it could be feasible to
build the chip into a thick contact
lens...
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Microwave ray gun controls crowds
with noise
NewScientist news service July 3, 2008
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Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to
build a microwave ray gun, dubbed
MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using
Silent Audio), able to beam sounds
directly into people's heads. The
device exploits the microwave audio
effect, in which short microwave
pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing
a shockwave inside the skull that
can be detected by the ears. A...
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For Future of Mind Control,
Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start
Popular Mechanics July 7, 2008
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A two-way mind-machine interface
with a remote device might some day
begin to redefine how we perceive
and interact with our environment. A
monkey at Duke University in Durham,
N.C. made this 5-ft. robot in Kyoto,
Japan walk on a treadmill (Masafumi
Yamamoto/The New York Times/Redux)
"One day, you could be sitting in an
office and...
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Scientists Find Way to Dim Cancer
Switch
HealthDay News July 1, 2008
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Stanford University researchers
have found a "dimmer switch" that
stops a gene from sending protein
signals that promote cancer. When
the Myc gene makes too much of the
protein Myc, cells lose the ability
to kill themselves when they're
damaged, and instead keep growing.
The researchers found that by
turning down the Myc switch, they
could...
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Herculean Device for Molecular
Mysteries
New York Times July 8, 2008
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Researchers at Columbia University
and D.E. Shaw Research are
developing a special-purpose
supercomputer that can achieve a
thousandfold increase in throughtput
for complex molecular simulations.
The supercomputer can simulate
biological processes that take place
over a millisecond or longer, 1000
times longer than current molecular
simulations...
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'Smart bomb' nanoparticle strategy
to stop metastasis
KurzweilAI.net July 8, 2008
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Researchers at University of
California, San Diego have developed
a nanoparticles/anti-cancer-drug
combination that acts as a "smart
bomb" to target metastasis
(spreading) in mouse pancreatic and
kidney cancer. The 100-nm.
nanoparticle comprises (unnamed)
lipid polymers that deliver the drug
doxorubcin, selectively targeting
blood vessels that...
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Are We in the Peak of an Oil
Bubble?
PhysOrg.com July 7, 2008
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Since 2003, worldwide oil prices
have quadrupled and according to a
new study, the price of oil is
rising at a faster-than-exponential
rate, and cannot be sustained. In
other words, we're in the midst of
an oil bubble, say researchers at
ETH Zurich in Switzerland and East
China University of Science and
Technology in Shanghai, China. Since...
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Pioneer Develops World's First
16-Layer Optical Disc
PhysOrg.com July 7, 2008
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Pioneer Corporation has developed a
16-layer read-only optical disc with
a capacity of 400 gigabytes....
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Synchronising 'heartbeat' saves
sensor batteries
New Scientist Tech July 7, 2008
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IBM's TJ Watson Labs has developed
a "heartbeat" design for sensor
networks that allows the sensors'
batteries to last four times as
long: nodes only turn on when the
beat reaches them, saving battery
power....
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