Normally I have a very optimistic outlook. Especially when it comes to technological breakthroughs. But this morning I was given pause for thought. MAKE magazine carried a news article today about a highly accurate DNA replicator for $10. I am fully convinced that such breakthroughs can be used to tackle the issues of world poverty, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )From KurzweilAI. If this isn’t worth blogging about, then nothing is. Could this be the most historic announcement ever to arrive in my inbox?
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers
NewScientist.com news service Jan. 20, 2007
University of Alberta scientists
have tested dichloroacetate (DCA) on
human cells cultured outside the
body and found that it killed lung,
breast and brain cancer cells, [...]
Aymeric put me onto a cool application called Neuro Programmer 2 (from the sinister sounding Transparent Corporation – makes me think of Umbrella Corporation), that generates brainwave entrainment sessions. We tried out one called Caffeine Replacement, and were quite amazed at the effect it had on us. We both ended up euphoric afterwards.
That got me [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a technique to create artificial muscle fibres using Carbon Nanotubes woven into a yarn a mere 2 microns thick. Each fibre has a strength equal to 100 times that of equivalent human muscle fibres. It is a expected that there will have revolutionary consequences for the prosthetic [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )A new study, just released, indicates that social-drinking lab rats have improved memories over those that do not. Researchers hung out in the same bars as the rats, asking them probing questions after nights on the townbench?
As an Englishman, I have been known to indulge, or even overindulge, in the past. But for some reason, [...]
New scientist is carrying a story about the use of cord blood in the preparation of embryonic stem cells. When K & I saw references to preservation of cord blood around the hospital we thought that it was to be preserved for later use by the baby in the case of operations and anemia. Now [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )The following appeared in Kurtzweil AI:
IBM and Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have teamed up to create the most ambitious project in the field of neuroscience: to simulate a mammalian brain on the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's Blue Gene. They plan to simulate the brain at every level of detail, even going [...]
…life is pain.
And it seems that some of us (and I'm including myself in this camp till proven otherwise) are born with an inherited tendency to feel more pain than others. This curse is known as "primary erythromelalgia". And is somehow related to a defective sodium channel in the pain signalling neurons. I blame my [...]
The smell of mother helps in the growth and development of a newborn child's olfactory centres. This is used in the process of bonding and is closely related to the way that the rest of the brain wires itself up to perceive the rest of the world. Just as I've been saying for years - [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )It says here: "in the absence of nuclear receptor 2E1 (NR2E1), even laboratory mice can become fierce, displaying pathological violent behavior ".
It's now obvious that the UK government has been manufacturing an NR2E1 suppressant for years and releasing it into the water supplies of council estates and spiking Stella Artois with it.
Do women undergo a [...]
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