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Some news from Palo Alto, CA today: ebrary has announced the availability of its new subscription database in Medical Technology. With titles from leading publishers including Elsevier’s Academic Press and Taylor & Francis’ CRC Press, the growing collection covers all aspects of medical technology including biomedical engineering and materials, imaging systems, medical instruments,...
Several recent deals could make tests more common. Even though nearly 2,000 genetic tests are available today, most Americans have never taken one. (Save, perhaps, for newborn screening.) That may soon change, as the nation's largest businesses responsible for managing prescription benefits, Medco and CVS Caremark, delve into the DNA testing business. Taken together, the two companies cover more than...
Scott Pace says Obama's mission for the agency is risky and unclear. Last week, the Obama administration proposed a new budget for the U.S. space program that would cancel NASA's efforts to develop new launch and transport technology and return humans to the moon by 2020. Instead, the budget focuses heavily on using the commercial sector to ferry astronauts to and from orbit.
Solar-powered base stations can link up remote rural areas. An Indian telecom company is deploying simple cell phone base stations that need as little as 50 watts of solar-provided power. It will soon announce plans to sell the equipment in Africa, expanding cell phone access to new ranks of rural villagers who live far from electricity supplies.
By tying the tool to Gmail, Google hopes to speed up adoption. Google has revealed its latest foray into the social space: a tool called Google Buzz that integrates with Gmail.
A congressional committee considers whether to direct money to the new energy agency. A year after it first received funding, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) got high marks from the congressional committee that spearheaded its creation in its " first annual checkup ." In a hearing of the House committee on Science and Technology, the new agency, which is designed...
“It was a true solar-plexus blow, and completely knocked out, Perkins staggered back against the instrument-board. His outflung arm pushed the power-lever out to its last notch, throwing full current through the bar, which was pointed straight up as it had been when they made their landing.” My current research in AI, such as it is, [...]
Phaedon Avouris, winner of the Feynman Prize in 1999, is head of the nanoscale science and technology group At IBM, which has recently reported significant advances in synthesizing transistors from graphene using conventional lithography methods. IBM Demonstrates Graphene Transistor Twice as Fast as Silicon Graphene transistors promise 100GHz speeds Graphene Transistors that Can Work at Blistering...
A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine.
The first AI blog was written by a major, highly respected figure in the field. It consisted, as a blog should, of a series of short essays on various subjects relating to the central topic. It appeared in the mid-80s, just as the ARPAnet was transforming over into the internet. The only little thing [...]
IBM shows graphene transistors could one day outpace silicon. IBM has created graphene transistors that leave silicon ones in the dust. The prototype devices, made from atom-thick sheets of carbon, operate at 100 gigahertz--meaning they can switch on and off 100 billion times each second, about 10 times as fast as the speediest silicon transistors.
One of the greatest challenges in the therapy of cancer is finding ways to target cancer cells while leaving normal cells alone. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and even surgery, all have collateral damage which is inflicted in one form or another on unaffected tissues within the body. The ability to use “micro-intelligent machines” which are programmed to deliver gene packages (or drugs or other possible
ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "Worldwide Nanotechnology Electric Vehicle Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts". Electric vehicles represent a quantum shift in transportation. The design trajectories are varied; the opportunities are significant as a quantum shift occurs in what the...
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