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Curtains And Pyjamas To Become Weapons Against Superbugs
March 3rd, 2009 
admin Intensive cleaning takes place on a hospital ward Photo: Rii SchroerFrom The Telegraph:Hospital curtains, bedding, and even patients’ pyjamas could become weapons in the war against hospital superbugs.A study has found that an antimicrobial treatment, which could be incorporated into dozens of surfaces on the ward, can kill MRSA on contact, reducing the risk of infection between patients.Scientists hailed the discovery by researchers from Imperial College London as a “very significant” step in the war on hospital superbugs which kill 10,000 people a year.Read more ….
Scientists Expect To Create Life In Next 10 years
February 24th, 2009 admin This photo, provided by ProtoLife, shows vesicles, artificial membranes for cells, made from scratch. Teams around the world, including ProtoLife, are trying to create synthetic life in a lab. Martin Hanczyc / APFrom MSNBC/AP:First cell of synthetic life can only be seen under a microscope.WASHINGTON – Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they’re getting closer.Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of “wet artificial life.”“It’s going to be a big deal and everybody’s going to know about it,” said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. “We’re talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways — in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict.”Read more ….
Scientists Make Advances On ‘Nano’ Electronics
February 22nd, 2009 admin Axial quadrupole nanostructures in an illustration courtesy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Two U.S. teams have developed new materials that may pave the way for ever smaller, faster and more powerful electronics as current semiconductor technology begins to reach the limits of miniaturization. Photo: REUTERS/Handout From Wired Science/Reuters:CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two U.S. teams have developed new materials that may pave the way for ever smaller, faster and more powerful electronics as current semiconductor technology begins to reach the limits of miniaturization.One team has made tiny transistors — the building block of computer processors — a fraction of the size of those used on advanced silicon chips.Another has made a film material capable of storing data from 250 DVDs onto a surface the size of a coin.Read more ….
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No Comments »Most Wars Occur in Biodiversity Hotspots
February 21st, 2009 admin Photo from My Daily ClarityFrom Live Science:More than 80 percent of the world’s major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.Scientists compared major conflict zones with the Earth’s 34 biodiversity hotspots identified by Conservation International (CI). The hotspots are considered top conservation priorities because they contain the entire populations of more than half of all plant species and at least 42 percent of all vertebrates, and are highly threatened.Read more ….
Pentagon Official: U.S. Is Not Developing Space Weapons
February 21st, 2009 admin The USS Lake Erie launches a Standard Missile-3 at a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 20, 2008. Credit: Defense Dept. photo by U.S. NavyFrom Live Science:STRASBOURG, France – The United States is not developing space weapons and could not afford to do so even if it wanted to, an official with the Pentagon’s National Security Space Office said Thursday.Pete Hays, a senior policy analyst at the space office who is also associate director of the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies, said U.S.
Posted in Science News Tags: Associate Director, Eisenhower Center, George W Bush, Hays, Lake Erie, Live Science, Missile, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Space, Pacific Ocean, Pentagon, Pentagon Official, Photo, Policy Analyst, President George W Bush, Reconnaissance Office Satellite, Space Weapons, Strasbourg France, U S Navy, Weaponry No Comments »Britain’s Lessons From The Winter of 2008-2009
February 20th, 2009 admin Stonehenge saw it’s heaviest snow in many years (Photo from Watts Up With That)From Watts Up With That:The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a few basic lessons from this. Here is my wish list, which seem painfully obvious. 1.
Engineers Create Intelligent Molecules That Seek And Destroy Diseased Cells
February 18th, 2009 admin White Blood Cells (Photo from Franklin Institute)From Science Daily:ScienceDaily (Feb. 18, 2009) — Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to recognize diseased cells, leaving the healthy cells alone.”We basically design molecules that actually go into the cell and do an analysis of the cellular state before delivering the therapeutic punch,” said Christina Smolke, assistant professor of bioengineering who joined Stanford University in January.Read more ….
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