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Health : Breakthrough: sensors that can convert thoughts into speech A mind reading machine has edged closer to reality after scientists found a way of converting thoughts into words. Researchers were able to render brain signals into speech for the first time, relying on sensors attached to the brain surface. The breakthrough, which is up to 90 percent accurate, will be a boon for paralysed patients who cannot speak and could help read anyone’s thoughts ultimately, reports the Telegraph. “We were beside ourselves with excitement when it started working,” said Prof Bradley Greger, bioengineer at the Utah University who led the project.
Can humans regrow fingers?" When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn't find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged the wound and recommended a skin graft to cover the top of his right-middle stub for cosmetic purposes, since nothing could be done to rebuild the finger. New Bandages Latest in Healthcare Technology - High Tech Bandages and Band-Aids ChitoGauze (Photograph courtesy of HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc.) HemCon Medical Technologies manufactures bandages and wound dressings that harness the power of the sea. The company's products use chitosan, a biopolymer made from a component in the exoskeletons of crab, shrimp and other crustacean exoskeletons. The positively charged chitosan attracts the negatively charged outer membranes of red blood cells; when the two come into contact, localized clotting occurs. HemCon's chitosan-coated bandages are already in use in Iraq; its latest product is ChitoGauze.
Canadian researchers cure cancer and nobody notices. Dammit, we’ve just cured cancah! Why is no one listening? Last week, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton cured cancer, but I bet you haven’t heard about it. Despite what might be a solid way to treat a wide variety of cancer with no side effects, the mainstream media hasn’t said a peep about it. Why would that be? Nanoengineers invent new biomaterial that more closely mimics human tissue Thursday, May 26, 2011 A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn’t wrinkle up when it is stretched. The invention from nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego marks a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering because it more closely mimics the properties of native human tissue. Pictured: Optical images of polyethylene glycol scaffolds expanding in response to stretching.(Note: green tone added to image.) Credit: UC San Diego / Shaochen Chen
Organ Regrowth: Get a New Pair of Eyes - PCWorld First scientists said, "I wonder if we can print body parts." Then they said, "I wonder if we can grow new blood vessels." Well, that time where scientists say "I wonder if we can do this" has come again: Scientists have, for the first time ever, grown a rudimentary eye in a petri dish. Noise kills, and blights lives in Europe - environment - 31 March 2011 Western Europeans suffer a heavy toll of death and disability through exposure to excessive noise, making it second only to air pollution as an environmental cause of ill health. That's the conclusion of the world's first comprehensive report on the health effects of noise, published this week by the World Health Organization and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Between them, western Europe's inhabitants – with an estimated adult population in 2001 of 340 million – were found to lose as much as 1.6 million years of healthy living per year. The authors reduced the headline figure to 1 million to rule out the possibility of double counting. "We are very confident that a million is the bottom line," says co-author Rok Ho Kim, who coordinates the WHO's noise programme.
snsanalytics Public release date: 19-Apr-2011 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: David Orensteindavid_orenstein@brown.edu 401-863-1862Brown University Large Hadron Collider: A Russian Scientist Accidently Put His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator and Didn't develop Super Powers or Die With all the news about the Large Hadron Collider I thought readers of this blog would be interested in what happened to a Russian Scientist named Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski in 1978. As a 36 year old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the synchrotron U-70. On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms.
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