From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 04:28:40 MST
http://www.futureport.dk/news - 2003-01-22 (12 articles)
[Health]
Betterhumans - Engineered Growth Factor Speeds Wound Healing, Prevents
Amputations
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-01-21-7
Delivering a genetic payload that spurs the generation of new blood
vessels, an engineered growth factor is proving safe and effective for
speeding healing in patients who face wound-related leg amputation.
Injected into leg muscles, the growth factor, NV1FGF, targets cells that
line blood vessel wells and directs them to grow new blood vessels,
improving circulation. The process is known as therapeutic angiogenesis.
[Health]
New Scientist - Stem cells migrate from bone to brain
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993286
Autopsies on four dead women have shown for the first time that stem
cells in bone marrow can develop into brain cells, not just blood and
bone cells as previously thought. The discovery suggests new approaches
for repairing damaged or diseased brains. Stem cells themselves could be
used, or the signalling chemicals that instruct them to become brain
cells, although these have yet to be identified...
[Health]
Science Daily - Researchers Identify Protein That Kills Cancer Cells
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030120100822.htm
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
have found that a protein called cytidine uridine guanosine binding
protein-2 (CUGBP2) can destroy several different types of cancer cells.
When the team inserted the protein into cultured tumor cells, more than
70 percent self-destructed...
[Nanotech]
Betterhumans - Nanotech Dreams, Nanotech Nightmares: Group Aims to
Ensure the Former
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-01-21-1
Offering the ability to create complicated machines
molecule-by-molecule, nanotechnology could allow for supercomputers
smaller than a grain of sand and tiny factories that help reduce poverty
around the world. But the technology could also allow weapons smaller
than a mosquito that can multiply rapidly, to horrific effect.
Navigating such nightmares to ensure the dreams of nanotechnology is the
goal of a new nonprofit organization.
[Nanotech]
EurekAlert - News & Ideas: Nanotechnology
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-01/rpi-ni012103.php
Several subjects in this article:<br />NANOELECTRONICS: Controlling
Nanotube Growth<br />NANOWELDING: Creating Tiny Junctions<br
/>NANOALIGNMENT: Long Hairlike Nanotubes<br />IGNITING NANOTUBES: Carbon
Nanotubes Ignite<br />NANOCRYSTALS: Symmetrical Crystals Created
[Science]
BBC - Secrets of ageing revealed
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2676735.stm
Scientists have found a way to measure the tiny mechanism within the
body's cells which many believe may hold the key to the ageing process.
The researchers believe the technique will help efforts to pin down the
causes of disease such as cancer that become more common as we get
older. It is widely thought that the number of times a cell can divide -
and thus reinvigorate tissue - is controlled by the length of a
microscopic structure called a telomere.
[Science]
CNN - Copied cat hardly resembles original
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/21/cloned.cat.ap/index.html
Rainbow the cat is a typical calico with splotches of brown, tan and
gold on white. Cc, her clone, has a striped gray coat over white.
Rainbow is reserved. Cc is curious and playful. Rainbow is chunky. Cc is
sleek. Her birth December 22, 2001, was big news when it was announced
last February because it was the first time a household pet had been
cloned. Previous mammal clones were barnyard animals like cows and goats.
[Science]
NY Times - 3-D RNA Folds and Molds Like a Key for a Specialized Work
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/science/21SHAP.html?ex=1043730000&en=1756c1b6980263ec&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER
It turns out that RNA can also fold into three-dimensional shapes that
can bind to something like a protein by shape, as a key fits in a lock.
That is important because proteins in a cell bind to one another by
shape, and drugs often work by fitting into their target by shape. For
instance, a popular area of biotechnology now is monoclonal antibodies,
which can be made to order to fit a particular shape of a target...
[Self transformation]
Betterhumans - Use Genetic Knowledge to Improve Ourselves, Group Says
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-01-21-8
Almost 50 years after Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA,
the question is now what we'll do with our genetic knowledge. In a year
when many will celebrate Watson and Crick's discovery, one group aims to
promote this answer: Humans should use it to improve themselves.
[Skeptiscism]
The Onion - Skeptic Pitied
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http://www.theonion.com/onion3902/skeptic_pitied.html
Craig Schaffner, 46, a Fayetteville-area computer consultant, has earned
the pity of friends and acquaintances for his tragic reluctance to
embrace the unverifiable, sources reported Monday. "I honestly feel
sorry for the guy," said neighbor Michael Eddy, 54, a born-again
Christian. "To live in this world not believing in a higher power,
doubting that Christ died for our sins—that's such a sad, cynical way to
live. I don't know how he gets through his day."
[Space]
New Scientist - NASA boosts nuclear propulsion plans
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993285
NASA has requested a "very significant" increase in funding for the
development of nuclear propulsion systems for spacecraft, according to
Sean O'Keefe, the administration's chief. Existing chemical rocket
technologies have restricted missions to the same speed for 40 years, he
said. "With the new technology, where we go next will only be limited by
our imagination"...
[Space]
SpaceDaily - Media Hype Alone Cannot Fuel The Space Program
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http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03a1.html
It seems to be the week for excessive hype where space is concerned.
Over the last few days, three separate stories about developments and
problems in space exploration have made a considerable splash
but on more detailed inspection, all three have been overblown.
Made in corporation with Transhumanity at:
http://transhumanism.com/news.shtml
-- hilsen/regards Max M http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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