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Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities

Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology that allows gamers to control game functions with only their eyes is helping to open virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft to people with severe motor disabilities.


New stem cell research could reduce number of animal experiments

New stem cell research could reduce number of animal experiments

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Bath are embarking on a project to use stem cell technology that could reduce the number of animal experiments used to study conditions such as motor neurone disease.


Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities

Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology that allows gamers to control game functions with only their eyes is helping to open virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft to people with severe motor disabilities.


Zebrafish offer clues to treatments for motor neurone disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny zebrafish could hold the key to stem cell treatments for motor neurone disease.


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'Brief History' scientist Stephen Hawking 'very ill': university

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Stephen Hawking, the wheelchair-bound British physicist whose book "A Brief History Of Time" became an international best-seller, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said Monday.


Researchers shake up scientific theory on motor protein

Researchers shake up scientific theory on motor protein

Biology /

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by the University of Leeds has shed new light on the little-understood motor protein called dynein, thought to be involved in progressive neurological ...