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Researchers Develop Soft Memory that May Usher in New Biocompatible Electronics
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There are a number of reasons that you might want to implant electronics into the human brain. There are also numerous devices that are in testing and may one day come to market that are for treating various issues that start in the brain from depression to pain to controlling… |
July 17th, 2011
Japanese Researchers Invent Capsule Endoscope to Navigate UrANUS
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The endoscope is traditionally a long tube that has a camera on the end and shoots video back to a viewing port for the doctor to see what is going on up inside your colon or down your throat. These things are used for all sorts of procedures from seeing… |
June 22nd, 2011
Forget the Tooth Fairy, Order a Biotooth
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A group of British scientists claim that they have figured out a way to make dentures obsolete, with the power of stem cells. Simply put, stem cells taken from a patient will be used to grow a bunch of cells that will grow into a tooth. The cells will then… |
January 3rd, 2010
Synthetic Red Blood Cells Being Developed, Conservative Vampires Condemn It
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First we had artificial pork, and now we have artificial blood. Scientist Samir Mitragotri and his colleagues have successfully created artificial red blood cells using biodegradable polymer molds. The lab-made cells are of the same size and shape as the real deal, and are also elastic enough that they can… |
December 18th, 2009
Inventor: We Can All be Cyborgs 20 Years From Now. California Governor: Been There, Done That.
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In a recent article in The Sun, famous inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil makes a lot of bold claims about our future, saying that by 2029 humans will be able to halt and even reverse the effects of aging. and then we’ll live forever, with the help of Hideo Kojima’s… |
September 25th, 2009
Genetically Engineered Pigs Could be Harvested for Human Organ Transplants – Still No Spiderpig
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Sorry Homer. But what’s important is that a group of Korean scientists have successfully produced a genetically engineered pig whose organs could be compatible with the human body. Chung Nam University’s Jin Dong-il and local bio-tech firm Mgen claim that their cloned piglet contains a protein called fas ligand (FasL),… |
August 14th, 2009
Web-Slinging Here We Come: Scientists Add Metals to Make Super-Strong Spider Silk
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Yet another proof that geeks are indeed cool: A bunch of scientists – whose professional motto is “Why not?” – decided to combine certain metals with the silk of the Araneus spider, and came up with “super-strength spider silk.” The experiment was actually inspired by a certain marine worm that… |
April 24th, 2009
Stop Sneezing With a Custom-Built Hypoallergenic Cat
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If you ever wanted a little feline fluffball of your own but couldn’t deal with the sneezing and itching, your worries are over. For the low, low price of $4000, you can pick up a hypoallergenic cat from San Diego biotech firm, Allerca. These cats are bred exclusively from litters… |
September 28th, 2006
