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"Plug and Play" Hospitals
Technology Review July 9, 2008
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Massachusetts General Hospital
doctors have developed two
demonstration projects that
illustrate the idea of a "plug and
play" operating room, based on the
idea that device interoperability in
hospitals could make hospitals safer
and more efficient. Estimates of the
number of preventable deaths caused
each year by medical errors in
American...
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Zapping Individual Cancer Cells
Technology Review July 9, 2008
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Engineers at the University of
Texas at Austin have patented a
laser microscalpel that allows a
surgeon to operate on tissue one
cell at a time, precisely targeting
disease while leaving healthy
surrounding cells alive. The device
combines two technologies--a
femtosecond laser and two-photon
fluorescence microscopy--into a
single miniaturized,...
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Check Yourself for Genetic
Abnormalities
Wired How To Wiki July 7, 2008
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Wired has assembled a wiki with
ways to check yourself for inherited
traits associated with some sort of
health condition, grouped under
three options: visit a genetic
counselor, scan your whole genome,
and perform lab tests at home....
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Internet cable-laying boom
PC Pro July 8, 2008
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At least 25 new undersea Internet
cables are set to be laid over the
next couple of years, providing a
huge boost to worldwide...
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50MP CCD Image Sensor unveiled by
Kodak
I4U News July 8, 2008
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Eastman Kodak Company unveiled the
world's first 50 million pixel CCD
image sensor for professional
photography. The sensor captures
digital images with unprecedented
resolution and detail. For instance,
with a 50 megapixel camera, in an
aerial photo of a field 1 1/2 miles
across, you could detect an object
about the size of a small notebook...
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Google Introduces a Cartoonlike
Method for Talking in Chat Rooms
New York Times July 9, 2008
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Google has introduced Lively, an
online tool that allows people to
embody a cartoonish online avatar
and have text-based conversations
with friends and other Internet
users in virtual chat rooms that can
be added to any blog or Web site.
Vivaty, a virtual-world start-up,
has introduced a similar 3-D chat
room that runs on Facebook and...
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Dopamine shown to induce both
desire and dread
KurzweilAI.net July 9, 2008
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University of Michigan researchers
have found that dopamine, the
neurotransmitter associated with
motivation and positive rewards, can
also promote negative feeling like
fear and dread. The researchers had
previously found that desire and
dread functions were anatomically
close together in the nucleus
accumbens (a tiny section of the...
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World Wide Wellness: Online
Database Keeps Tabs on Emerging
Health Threats
Scientific American July 8, 2008
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Researchers at Children's Hospital
Boston and Harvard Medical School
have developed "HealthMap," an
automated data-mining project that
searches web-accessible information
sources to track emerging health
threats worldwide. HealthMap can
often detect potential disease
outbreaks in local pockets before
health agencies such as the World
Health...
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AI beats human poker champions
EE Times July 7, 2008
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An artificial intelligence program
called Polaris 2.0 defeated human
champions in the second Man-Machine
Poker Competition, in Las Vegas,
July 3-6. Deveoped at the University
of Alberta, Polaris 2 had learning
built into its programming, thereby
countering the learning ability of
the humans by switching strategies
whenever they did....
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Gold, DNA Combination May Lead To
Nano-Sensor
KurzweilAI.net July 9, 2008
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Duke University scientists have
developed intracellular biological
sensors based on gold nanostructures
with tethered DNA recognition
molecules that can create signals
from subtle changes in light
reflecting off their nanoscale
surfaces. By measuring color
changes, researchers can tell what
is happening at the molecular level,
and the...
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Nanoscale lithographic tech to
enable 25 nm chip features
KurzweilAI.net July 9, 2008
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MIT researchers have achieved a
significant advance in nanoscale
lithographic technology, creating
lines about 25 nanometers wide
separated by 25 nm spaces. The most
advanced commercially available
computer chips today have a minimum
feature size of 65 nm. Intel
recently announced that it will
start manufacturing at the 32 nm
minimum...
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Miniaturised scanner zooms in on
disease
New Scientist Tech July 8, 2008
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Harvard Medical School scientists
have developed a miniaturized
handheld nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) scanner that can diagnose
diseases and identify pathogens, and
is 800 times more sensitive than
standard NMR scanners used in many
laboratories -- enough to detect
just 10 bacteria in a given sample.
The trick is the use of magnetic...
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