*Carbon Nanotubes (appluase!) Generate Full-Color, Flat Displays. a team of
Korean researchers at Samsung has produced a working display that promises
to combine the quality of CRT images with the convenience of a flat panel by
using carbon nanotubes as its source of electrons. (InSCIght Dec 7,99)
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/12071999/grapha.htm
*Industrial revolutions in the 21st century. Advances in nanotechnology,
information science and molecular biology continue at a rapid rate and are
poised to spark a series of industrial revolutions in the next millennium.
(Physics Web Dec 99)
http://www.physicsweb.org/article/world/12/12/13
*SemiConductors. Researchers report on latest quantum work. Researchers at
this week's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) reported on the
latest achievements in SETs (single-electron transistors), nano-crystal
memories, and quantum mechanical effects in general. (EE Times, 12/8/99)
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991208S0013
*'Frozen pictures' allow far-reaching glimpse into the cell¹s protein
factory. Key Progress by Max Planck and Weizmann Scientists in the Race to
Unravel Ribosomal Structure.
The structure of the small ribosomal subunit has been determinded at the
highest resolution ever achieved by a team of Weizmann Institute and Max
Planck Society scientists. Their findings, aided by the unique utilization
of functional probes, have unraveled key ribosomal features including the
site where protein biosynthesis begins.
http://www.mpg.de/news99/news53_99.htm
*Discoverys article on IBM's supercomputer 1,000 times more powerful than
the chess-playing Deep Blue. "Supercomputer To Unlock Protein Secrets."
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/brief4.html?ct=384d66e8
Or see it on CNet with Quote:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1480727.html?tag=st
*Stem Cells Not Bound To Become Any Cell Type. Results from a new study
challenge the traditional view that the precursor cells known as stem cells
are "committed" to becoming specific mature cells of the types found in
their tissues of origin.
http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1207995.htm
Or Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/a9060-1999dec5.htm
*John K Clark post inspired me to search this one out.-although I have read
the
afterposts, we are already committed here-. (Funded by GERON)Scientists
Cause Human Cancer Cell Death By Inhibiting Telomerase.Scientists at UT
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas caused the death of human cancer cells
by inhibiting
telomerase - the enzyme capable of immortalizing human cells. They developed
small synthetic inhibitors against telomerase that when introduced into
human cancer cells caused progressive telomere shortening and eventually
cell death.
http://irweb.swmed.edu/newspub/newsdetl.asp?story_id=199
Or: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991207075002.htm
http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1207991.htm
*Want to live longer? Eat mustard.(good news for mustard girl here) Canadian
researcher Steve W. Cui wants people to use more mustard. It's not just the
taste that's great about mustard, says Mr. Cui, a research scientist with
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Guelph. It's also good for your health.
(National Ottawa Citizen Online Dec 7, 99)
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/991207/3256577.html
*Listening Hard for Microprobes Time Running Out. Two tiny probes that rode
aboard Mars Polar Lander but separated before entry appear to be lost
forever as efforts to contact the larger spacecraft also continued without
success. (ABC) This site has a interactive picture that opens a pop up box,
this has a drop down box that carries you thru several options, one is a
clickable picture of the mars polar lander, with descriptions of various
instrumentations, pic of the target site, a video, and mars stuff.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/marspolar_probes991206.html
*Screen science. Researchers performing multiple database manipulations
replace 'wet' experiences in the drug discovery process. *snip*As
pharmaceutical researchers probe the genetic building blocks of life to
attack more complex illnesses, this expensive ''wet'' science, as it is
known, is no longer where drug discoveries are made. (The Boston Globe Dec
7, 99)-give it a minute to load.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/341/business/Screen_science+.shtml
*Expect Rapid, Pervasive Innovation In 21st Century. Innovative technologies
emerging over the next decade promise to affect virtually all aspects of
everyday society, from transportation to health care, communication to
recreation. (Science Daily's predictions Dec 6, 99)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991206071130.htm
*Iceland's Gene Pool Making Waves. Within weeks, an Icelandic company plans
to begin collecting DNA samples from Iceland's 270,000 citizens and linking
the genetic profiles with their health records and family trees. The
database it plans to build would offer an unprecedented chance to discover
genetic links to disease - and an unprecedented danger to privacy, doctors
and researchers attending a packed meeting of the American Society of
Hematology said Sunday.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991205/sc/icelandic_genes_1.html
*Data derived from a balloon-borne probe of the early Universe provides
strong evidence that the Universe is flat and not open. The data is also
consistent with the idea that a force, very possibly the theorized
cosmological constant, a form of countergravitational "dark energy" thought
to fill the universe, is helping drive the never-ending expansion of the
Universe. (Dec 7, 99)
http://enews.lbl.gov/
*New Ways To Expand The Mind: Re-creating The Power Of The Human Brain,
Using Machines The Size Of Blood Cells. What may be in store when it comes
to boosting your brain power in the next century? CBS News Correspondent
Richard Schlesinger reports that you may be able to get a memory upgrade for
your brain. (CBS Dec 7,99)
http://www.cbs.com/flat/story_207791.html
*Rollersnake. Realistic robots are wriggling off the drawing board. Geeks
growing bored with Sony's robotic dogs could one day replace their motorised
mutts with another high-tech toy: a robotic snake that moves just like the
real thing. The technology could also be used to create robots capable of
handling the toughest terrain--perhaps even on other planets. (New
Scientist)
http://www.newscientist.co.uk/ns/19991204/newsstory8.html
*Gene therapy yields super pigs. But will they fly with the public? Here
come the super pigs. Medical researchers using gene therapy have figured out
a way to make young hogs grow 40 percent larger and faster. Scientists say
the technique, which stimulates production of the pigs’ growth hormones,
would be a boon for livestock farmers — and eventually could even be used to
treat children with growth problems and to prevent muscle deterioration in
AIDS and cancer patients. (MSNBC Dec 7,99)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/343770.asp
Or Seattle: http://www.seattlep-i.com/national/medi082.shtml
*Quantum gravity presents the ultimate challenge to theorists. Physics in
the 20th century is founded on the twin pillars of quantum mechanics and the
theory of relativity. However, in spite of the enormous successes of each
theory individually, the two appear to be incompatible. This embarrassing
contradiction at the very heart of theoretical physics remains one of the
great outstanding challenges in science. (Physics Web Dec 99)
http://www.physicsweb.org/article/world/12/12/2
*Event/Announce: NANOSTRUCTURES: Physics & Technology
In: St Petersburg, Russia From: Mon Jun 19, 2000 To: Fri Jun 23, 2000
Deadline: Tue Feb 01 Tue, 2000 On-line: http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/NANO2000/
*An Invisible Dimension. Science fiction characters make travel through
extra dimensions look as easy as getting on the subway, but physicists have
never taken them seriously. Now in the 6 December PRL a team proposes a
radical idea: We may indeed live in a world with more than three spatially
infinite dimensions, yet the extra dimensions might be essentially
imperceptible. (Physical Review Focus Dec 2,99)
http://focus.aps.org/v4/st28.html
*Toshiba discovers how to make voids in silicon. Toshiba has discovered how
to make what it calls "empty space in silicon" or ESS. The ability to form
bubbles, pipes and flat plates as voids in silicon could be a useful
addition to the range of techniques available for manipulating silicon and
could be used to create novel silicon-on-insulator structures.
(EE Times 12/7/99)
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991207S0092
*Structure of Molecular Scissors Critical for the Shaping of Cells Revealed
by Structural Biologists at The Salk Institute. The living cell is the
prototypical shape-shifter. At any given moment, it will reorganize itself
to move, grow, replicate and even die.To achieve its Gumby-like existence,
the cell's internal protein scaffolding, its cytoskeleton, is split apart
and put back together ... over and over again. Until recently, little was
known about how this basic life process was accomplished on the molecular
level. But now scientists at The Salk Institute have shown in
three-dimensional detail how remodeling begins in one of the most prevalent
of these cytoskeletal proteins, called actin. (Dec 2, 99)
http://www.salk.edu/NEWS/gelsolin.html
*Mouse stem cells can change their fate. Stem cells from the skeletal muscle
of adult mice have a "remarkable capacity" to transform themselves into
blood cells, Texas researchers reported Sunday. The findings may one day
lead to new ways to obtain cells for research, and perhaps to an alternative
source for cells now available only from human bone marrow. (12/6/99)
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991206/17/health-rsa
*A patent for DNA analysis owned by biotechnology giant Hoffman-La Roche was
obtained by deliberately misleading the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and
is invalid, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker
upheld a challenge by Promega Corp., which argued that scientists got the
patent in 1990 by misrepresenting their experiments and falsely claiming
advances over previous discoveries. (Nando 12/7)
http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500139741-500164620-500592690-0,
00.html
*Cell Research: Welcome Controls. It's welcome news that the federal
government will soon begin sponsoring research on cells isolated from human
embryos. That's because millions with serious diseases could benefit from
medical discoveries that spring from the new research. (LA Times 12/7/99)
Small article.
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/19991207/t000111547.html
*So I'm happy to pass on the findings of a report on likely developments in
health care over the next decade, HealthCast 2010, prepared by
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the chartered accountants and management
consultants. It's an international study, based on interviews with 400
''thought leaders'' and health care executives in many developed countries,
including Australia. Most attempts to peer into the future of healthcare
emphasise the effects of aging and the growing cost of medical technology.
But this report highlights three other forces of change: more demanding
consumers, the impact of the information revolution, and the way
''genomics'' will shift health care from cure to prevention. (SMH)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/08/text/features3.html
*'Chaos' theory empowers researchers to predict epileptic seizures. Inspired
by an intriguing mathematical concept known as chaos theory, researchers at
the University of Florida Brain Institute and the Malcom Randall Veterans
Affairs Medical Center in Gainesville have developed a technique for
predicting some types of epileptic seizures minutes to hours before they
begin. (EurekAlert 12/8/99)
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uflo-cte120899.html
*Crystal fix. Biodegradable rods could help mend broken bonesLiquid crystals
are better known as the stuff of TV and laptop displays but surgeons could
one day use them to rebuild shattered bones, say researchers in York. (New
Scientist)
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991211/newsstory11.html
*Theory Of Memory: Grounded In Actions, Not Words. For those who get
flummoxed by how-to manuals, or stymied by instructions for assembly,
University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist Arthur Glenberg has a
reassuring theory. It's not all your fault. The instructions run counter to
how your memory works (UnicSci)
http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1208996.htm
*Scientists Propose New Theories on Planet Formation New planetary systems
being discovered do not look much like our own because they may have been
formed in a very different way, scientists said on Wednesday. (Yahoo
12/8/99)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991208/sc/space_planets_4.html
*Methods Faulted In Gene Test Death Teen Too Ill for Therapy, Probe Finds.
Federal investigators have uncovered serious problems in the gene therapy
experiment that killed a Tucson teenager in September, including new
evidence that the young man should not have been allowed into the risky
study because he was too sick at the time. (Washington Post 12/8/99)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/08/223l-120899-idx.html
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
Nanotechnology Industries
http://www.nanoindustries.com
Personal Web
http://www.homestead.com/nanotechind/nothingatall.html
E-mail: nanogirl@halcyon.com
"Nanotechnology: solutions for the future."