BBC NEWS | Health | Killer parasites’ genes decoded. Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of two parasitic flatworms responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide every year. Researchers working on the genetic blueprint of S. masoni, the most widespread of the schistosomiasis parasites, found that it was made up of 11,809 genes – about 10 [...]
PC Pro: News: Exposed: the PC repair shops that rifle through your photos and passwords. The exercise was simple. Create a simple fault on a laptop, load it with spy software, take it into several repair shops, then sit back and see what happened. Would they arrive at the same diagnosis and charge us a [...]
DailyTech – Students Embed Stem Cells Into Sutures for Tendon Repair. Biomedical engineering students from Johns Hopkins have demonstrated a way to use stem cells from a patient to help repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons. The students demonstrated a method of embedding the patient’s own stem cells into a surgical thread that [...]
DailyTech – ESA’s Venus Express Beams Back Evidence of a Wet Past. Venus may have looked like Earth, just not for very long. After a November 2005 launch, the European Space Agency’s scientific satellite, Venus Express, reached the planet in April of the following year and settled into its working orbit shortly after in May. [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Wireless power system shown off. A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices over many metres. Eric Giler, chief executive of [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hubble pictures Jupiter’s ‘scar’. Hubble has trained its new camera on the atmospheric disturbance on Jupiter believed to have been caused by a comet or asteroid impact. The telescope used the Wide Field Camera 3 fitted on the recent shuttle servicing mission to capture ultra-sharp visible-light images of [...]
2.02 – July 30th 2009 With this little tool you can very easily upload pictures to www.tinypic.com, www.imageshack.us and www.messyshare.com without having to go through their website. You can enable shell link integration and simply Right-click the file and select “Send to TinyPic/Imageshack/MessyShare“ or drag the file to the app. window and it will automatically [...]
So much for google’s “do no evil” motto.. (I guess supporting the censorship of human rights and civilian massacres seems alright to them), they’ve done it again, screwing up its customers. I loaded my Picasa site today, it was empty. No notice, no instructions, no warnings, no nothing. If you have a paying Picasa account [...]
DailyTech – Study Shows Drug Rapamycin Extends Lifespan of Mammals. Researchers have discovered the first drug that has been proven to extend the lifespan of mammals when taken late in life. The drug is called rapamycin and is derived from bacteria that lives in the soil on the remote and legendary Easter Island most well-known [...]
BBC NEWS | Health | Coffee ‘may reverse Alzheimer’s’. Drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer’s disease, US scientists say. The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease. Previous research has also [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Developing Robo-Bat With Metal Muscles. Researchers from North Carolina State University are developing a new robotic bat with a metal skeleton that one day could have a wide range of uses in the civilian and military industries. NC State doctoral student So Bunget is working alongside a mechanical engineering professor to develop [...]
Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim “$100M+” RIAA “stole” – Ars Technica. The recording industry has spent (and continues to spend) millions of dollars on its litigation campaign against accused file-swappers, but if two lawyers have their way, the RIAA will have to pay all the money back. Not content simply to defend Jammie Thomas-Rasset in [...]
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman. Cool article from the bbc. When I wore it walking down the street or going into shops, I got strange looks
BBC NEWS | Health | Universal embryo test ‘very near’. A gene mapping test that can test embryos for almost any inherited disease could be available in the UK within a year, say researchers.
DailyTech – Scientists Use Sudoku to Speed Genome Sequencing. Scientists thing the new method can save millions in sequencing costs Scientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered a new method of pooling a multitude of DNA samples for sequencing. The new method is being called DNA Sudoku because it uses a method [...]
