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• Medibots: The world's smallest surgeons November 20, 2009
  Advances in robotics could revolutionize healthcare, pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, from worm-inspired capsules to crawl through your gut, and systems swallowed in pieces that assemble themselves inside the body, to surgical robots that will soon be ready to embark on a fantastic voyage through our bodies, homing in on the part that's […]
• IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip November 20, 2009
  IBM scientists have created a fast, one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on a silicon chip that uses capillary forces to analyze tiny samples of blood serum for the presence of disease markers. It requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for many diseases, including cardiovascular disease -- a small s […]
• The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication November 20, 2009
  Sergei Mayburov at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow suggests that optical communication is a natural process in many cells of body, closely related to photosynthesis. (Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24425/?a=f)
• On Your Last Nerve: Researchers Advance Understanding of Stem Cells November 20, 2009
  North Carolina State University researchers have identified a gene, FoxJ1, that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing neurons. The research could lead to new treatments to replace damaged or diseased brain tissue. (Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117102034.htm)
• A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network November 20, 2009
  HP Labs has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE): a R&D program to build a planetwide sensing network, using billions of tiny accelerometers that detect motion and vibrations, and later, ones for light, temperature, barometric pressure, airflow and humidity. The nodes could be stuck to bridges and […]
• Google to Add Captions, Improving YouTube Videos November 20, 2009
  In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies on Thursday that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site. The technology will also open YouTube videos to a wider foreign market and make them more searchable, giving users the choice o […]
• Sounds During Sleep Aid Memory, Study Finds November 20, 2009
  Playing sound cues associated with a picture in a specific location while people slept helped them remember more of what they had learned before they fell sleep, to the point where memories of individual facts were enhanced, scientists at Northwestern University report in the journal Science. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/science/20sleep.html) […]
• Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020 November 20, 2009
  By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers, who are close to gaining the ability to build brain sensing technology into a headset that culd be used to manipulate a computer, working with associates at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Their next step is developme […]
• Time-travelling browsers navigate the web's past November 19, 2009
  Finding old versions of web pages could become far simpler thanks to Memento, a "time-travelling" web browsing technology being pioneered at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18158-timetravelling-browsers-navigate-the-webs-past.html)
• Andy Grove's Prescription for Health Care November 19, 2009
  Andrew S. Grove, the 73-year-old former chief executive of Intel, is advocating a new master's degree program in translational medicine (the art of taking laboratory, one-off discoveries and putting them into mass production -- in higher volume and at lower cost than previous treatments). The degree would combine the talents mainly of engineering and me […]