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US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Communication

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (62) | comments 12 weblog

In the future, soldiers may be communicating silently with sophisticated "thought helmets." The devices would harness a person´s brain waves and transmit them as radio waves, where they would be translated ...





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South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.


The cancer 'TRAP'

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Current research suggests that TNF-receptor associated protein-1 (TRAP-1) may prevent cancer cell death. The related report by Leav et al, "Cytoprotective Mitochondrial Chaperone TRAP-1 as a Novel Molecular Target in Localized ...


UMass Amherst Chemists Discover How Cells Create Stability During Critical DNA-to-RNA Information Transfers

Chemists Discover How Cells Create Stability During Critical DNA-to-RNA Information Transfers

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemists believe they have for the first time explained how the main players in transcription -- RNA polymerase, RNA (red in illustration) and ...


San Jose police mount cameras on officers' heads

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras.


Acupuncture reduces hot flashes, improves sex drive for breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Not only is acupuncture as effective as drug therapy at reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients, it has the added benefit of potentially increasing a woman's sex drive and improving her sense of well-being, according ...


Gap exists between vision for EMRs to improve care coordination and clinicians' experiences

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A gap exists between policy makers' expectations that current commercial electronic medical records (EMRs) can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians' real-world experiences with EMRs, according to a study by ...


Johns Hopkins scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry

Scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 3

By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal's brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular ...


Simplest bacteria unravelled at the cellular level

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Even the simplest cell appears to be far more complex than researchers had imagined. In a series of three articles in the journal Science, researchers including Vera van Noort at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...


How amyloid beta reduces plasticity related to synaptic signaling

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The early stages of Alzheimer's disease are thought to occur at the synapse, since synapse loss is associated with memory dysfunction. Evidence suggests that amyloid beta (Aβ) plays an important role in early synaptic ...


Research gives new perspective on periodic table

Research gives new perspective on periodic table

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (52) | comments 9

Transforming lead into gold is an impossible feat, but a similar type of "alchemy" is not only possible, but cost-effective too. Three Penn State researchers have shown that certain combinations of elemental ...



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