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Nanomedicine, Robert A. Freitas Jr.

In Nanomedicine, Vol. I: Basic Capabilities, first in the four-volume Nanomedicine technical book series, Robert A. Freitas, Jr. offers a pioneering and fascinating glimpse into a molecularnanotechnology future with far-reaching implications for the medical profession -- and ultimately for the radical improvement and extension of natural human biological structure and function.

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Intel Corp. has made available its chip making nanotechnology tools to cancer researchers to diagnose and study cancer. Intel is building a room-sized machine called the Raman Bioanalyzer System at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. It beams lasers onto tiny medical samples...

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Chemists have captured atom-scale

images of the melting process, revealing the first images of the transition of a solid into a liquid at the timescale of femtoseconds. "Imagine being able to see atoms as they move in real time," says Professor R. J. Dwayne Miller of the University of Toronto...

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In a finding that may help create unlimited quantities of therapeutically valuable adult stem cells, an MIT researcher fortified adult rat liver stem cells with a metabolite that allows them to multiply like embryonic stem cells. In the absence of the metabolite, the cells revert to acting like...

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BBC News

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The first mobile phone designed specifically for blind and partially sighted people will go on sale in Spain next week. A speech synthesizer reads everything that would normally appear on the screen and speaks the name or number of incoming.

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Could I Get That Song in Elvis, Please?

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Vocaloid software, due out in January from Yamaha, allows users to create synthesized songs in a life-like concert-quality voice. To create the virtual performer's "vocal font," technicians record a singer performing as many as 60 pages of scripted phoneme articulations along with assorted...

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A Texas company will soon start selling The GloFish, a genetically engineered zebra fish containing a gene from a sea coral that makes the fish bright red under normal light and fluorescent under ultraviolet...

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The first walking robot capable of carrying a human was unveiled on Friday in Tokyo. Its creators at Waseda University in Tokyo and the Japanese robotics company tmsuk hope their "two-legged walking chair" will one day enablewheel-chair users to climb up and down stairs and assist the...

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Prototypes of Paro, a stuffed animal seal robot, are being tested at nursing homes and with autisticand handicapped children. Surface tactile sensors beneath its fur and whiskers trigger Paro to move and respond to petting: eyes open and close, flippers move. Just holding and stroking the...

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A functional electronic nano-device

has been manufactured using biological self-assembly for the first time. It harnesses the construction capabilities of DNA and the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes to create a self-assembling nano-transistor. The team used proteins to allow carbon...

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BBC News

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A virtual TV guide aimed at helping visually impaired people can switch channels at the command of the viewer. The software chats to viewers about what they want to see,a computer linked to the TV uses voice recognition to accept their answer and then switches the set to the correct...

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Technology Research News

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MIT researchers have crossed a robotic arm with the bottom half of a Segway to make a robot that can traverse hallways and open doors. The researchers are aiming to give the robot the abilities to recognize whether it's in a room or hallway, recognize and manipulate objects, take instructions,...

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The world's lightest and smallest robot helicopter has been unveiled at a Tokyo exhibition by the Seiko Epson company. The designers say the 70-mm-tall device could be used as a "flying camera" to enterearthquake-shattered...

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Making a case for Efficient Supercomputing ACM Queue

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The supercomputing industry focuses on growth of performance in terms of speed and horsepower, but performance/space ratio has not kept up because of "Moore's law for power consumption"-- that is, the power consumption of compute nodes doubles every 18 months, says Los Alamos National Laboratory...

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Face transplants feasible - but not Yet NewScientist.com news

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A Royal College of Surgeons report

on the ethics and feasibility of face transplants has decided on a "wait and see" approach, saying the risks of immune rejection of the graft outweigh the potential benefits at present. Critics of face transplant surgery also argue that patients risk...

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Scientists at North Carolina State University are attempting to build the first transistor using a bottom-up, or molecular assembly approach. "Our research will tackle two critical issues in future materials for advanced molecule-based information processing," says Dr. Chris Gorman, professor...

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Kasparov and Computer End 3-D Chess Series in Tie Reuters

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Garry Kasparov's final game of his match against "X3D Fritz" ended in a draw. The match ended in a 2-2 tie. "Machines are getting better, but we humans are also learning," said Kasparov, considered by chess experts to be the best player in the history of the ancient game. "Today, I know much...

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Researchers have made a breakthrough discovery about the behavior of bubbles and droplets in fluids. The finding could have applications in areas such as microcapsules for medical controlled-release applications and production of nanostructures. The researchers noted that drops of liquid formed...

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Microsoft news site to customise content

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MSN Newsbot, a news-gathering site that tailors selection of news stories for individual users, is being tested by Microsoft. Microsoft says the site will personalize results within 10 minutes of a user starting to browse. The site is a rival to Google News. It uses an algorithm similar to...

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Researchers measure the 'heat of life,' offering clues to DNA damage

KurzweilAI.net Nov. 18, 2003

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A Rutgers-led team has produced the first-ever measurement of the "heat of life" -- the energies involved in DNA replication and synthesis. The measurements can be used to construct a virtual landscape that traces the precise energy differences between correct and incorrect DNA synthesis.

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The Way We Nest Now

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"Smart helpmeets" are on their way: our homes, our offices, our cars and our clothes. They are meant to be aware, not dumb; proactive, not inert. "Desks and doors, televisions and telephones, cars and trains, eyeglasses and shoes and even the shirts on our backs -- all are changing from static,...

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News at a Glance

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