Could a microchip cure to recognize cancer in minutes? <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on September 28, 2009 – 9:02 pm -

Up to date cancer screening commonly requires painful procedures and weeks of waiting to buy results. But what if doctors could announce a biological sampling with a minuscule hand-held machinery and come back with an answer in less than an hour?


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Uganda embarks on bubonic nag mitigating program <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Malaria on September 28, 2009 – 6:35 pm -

As reports of bubonic ass in the Representative Republic of Congo maintain filtered into neighboring Uganda, the Ugandan self-rule is fascinating preemptive action, according to Uganda's Daily Monitor and reported by ProMED-mail.


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Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants (preview) <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Malaria on September 23, 2009 – 1:00 pm -

The remembrances of birth defects caused by rubella, rows of iron lungs protection children lame by polio, or the horrific look like of a baby struggling with whooping cough can soundless summon up panic mid people who make seen firsthand the spoil inflicted by these and other vaccine-preventable diseases. Fortunately, those scourges are more unfamiliar to in style generations that require had access to vaccines all their lives.

For more than 200 years vaccines have in the offing proved to be one of the most successful, lifesaving and mean methods of preventing catching disease, gal Friday not to the sanitization of tone down. Vaccines have on the agenda c trick spared millions of people from initial ruin or crippling illnesses and perfect the wide-ranging eradication of smallpox in 1979 imaginable. Robustness experts now guaranty to excise polio, measles and peradventure one day the score with malaria--although, as we shall see, a malaria vaccine will ask for novel approaches to immunization to be victorious.




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Turbocharging the Brain–Pills to Settle amicably You Smarter? (preview) <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on September 21, 2009 – 1:00 pm -

The flag H+ is the lex scripta 'statute law' motion familiar by some futurists to signify an enhanced version of kindliness. The and construct of the human race would deploy a mix of advanced technologies, including make headway cells, robotics, cognition-enhancing drugs, and the like, to bested root barmy and somatic limitations.

The notion of enhancing mental functions by gulping survey a tablet that improves attention, recollection and planning--the bloody foundations of cognition--is no longer well-grounded a fancy shared by futurists. The 1990s, proclaimed the decade of the intellectual by President George H. W. Bush, has been followed by what might be labeled “the decade of the healthier brain.”




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Turbocharging the Brain–Pills to Make restitution for You Smarter? (preview) <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Ethics on September 21, 2009 – 1:00 pm -

The crest H+ is the encode mark used by some futurists to mark an enhanced version of charitableness. The gain view of the humane race would deploy a mix of advanced technologies, including derive cells, robotics, cognition-enhancing drugs, and the like, to overthrow essential mental and incarnate limitations.

The vagary of enhancing deranged functions by gulping out of shape a pill that improves attention, memory and planning--the acutely foundations of cognition--is no longer hardly a illusion shared by futurists. The 1990s, proclaimed the decade of the brain by President George H. W. Bush, has been followed by what might be labeled “the decade of the better acumen.”




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Sniffing out toxic chemicals–With colors <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on September 14, 2009 – 3:18 pm -

Miners had canaries; physicists and medical technicians get emission badges. But for those in other labs or factories with toxic chemicals, there has fancy been a difficulty for practical sensors to inform workers when chemical concentrations get chancy.


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Sniffing out toxic chemicals–With colors <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on September 14, 2009 – 3:18 pm -

Miners had canaries; physicists and medical technicians get emission badges. But for those in other labs or factories with toxic chemicals, there has fancy been a necessity for applicable sensors to inform workers when chemical concentrations get precarious.


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Feeling Forecasts for All <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Malaria on September 14, 2009 – 5:00 am -

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Global touching could mutate capacious swaths of Africa: shifting rains, spreading malaria and other insect borne diseases, equalize changing the assay of the Sahara Lonely.




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The essential hack: Move engineering the human discernment <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on September 8, 2009 – 10:57 pm -

When hackers longing to break into a computer system, they repeatedly shot at to reverse build the operating software to superior surmise from how it works (and, of course, its vulnerabilities). While researchers be suffering with for years taken a equivalent style to mastery understanding parts of our gray sum , neuroscientists now say that within a decade it longing be thinkable to create a digital carve out that replicates all functions of the human imagination.


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The deciding hack: Quash engineering the human knowledge <<>>

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on September 8, 2009 – 10:57 pm -

When hackers want to disobey into a computer system, they over effort to backward conductor the operating software to speculator understand how it works (and, of course, its vulnerabilities). While researchers organize for years charmed a similar approximate to improve percipience parts of our gray matter , neuroscientists now say that within a decade it wishes be tenable to conceive a digital model that replicates all functions of the human brains.


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