http://www.futureport.dk/news - 2003-03-10 (12 articles)

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    [Health]
    Doctors Use Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Repair a Heart
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P111

    Doctors have used stem cells in an attempt to repair the heart of a
    16-year-old boy, Dmitri Bonnville, the first time that such an operation
    is known to have been tried in the United States.The procedure builds on
    promising work in animals showing that stem cells from the bone marrow
    can be used to repair the heart.

    [Health]
    Stem Cells From Blood; May Revolutionize Medical Research And
    Transplantation
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P105

    Science Daily - The particularly powerful - and very scarce - flexible
    forms of stem cells needed for medical research and treatment may now be
    both plentiful and simple to produce, with a new technology developed at
    the U.S. Department of EnergyÂ’s Argonne National Laboratory - and the
    source is as close as your own bloodstream...

    [Health]
    Stem-cell therapy to revive damaged heart tissue
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P113

    Wired - Sixteen-year-old Dimitri Bonnville had already been accidentally
    shot in the heart with a nail gun while doing home repair, undergone
    open-heart surgery and suffered a massive heart attack, when doctors
    told his parents he needed a heart transplant. The doctors did offer an
    alternative: Bonnville could become the first human to receive
    experimental stem-cell therapy to revive his damaged heart tissue. They
    went ahead with the procedure, the results of which could turn the...

    [Nanotech]
    Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P106

    National Geographic - Israeli scientists have devised a computer that
    can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times
    the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA...

    [Nanotech]
    New method for producing carbon nanoscrolls, an alternative to nanotubes
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P114

    Science Blog - Chemists report in the Feb. 28 issue of Science a
    room-temperature chemical method for producing a new form of carbon
    called carbon nanoscrolls. Nanoscrolls are closely related to the much
    touted carbon nanotubes
        which may have numerous industrial applications -- but have
        significant advantages over them, said Lisa Viculis and Julia Mack,
        the lead authors of the article and graduate students in the
        laboratory of Richard B. Kaner, UCLA professor of chemistry and
        biochemistry...

    [Nanotech]
    Renaissance of Silicon Valley
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P124

    LA Times - Good article on the much hoped for renaissance of Silicon
    Valley through a renewed focus on new advenced technologies. Requires
    registration. "...Hopeful signs point to biotechnology for new drugs and
    medical treatments, and nanotechnology--structures at the molecular or
    atomic scale--or maybe a combination of the two. Nano-processors could
    create computers thousands of times more powerful than today's models.
    Some optimists predict that nano-bots the size of a virus and...

    [Politics]
    New Democrats on Mulhall vs. Fukuyama
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P117

    Interesting comparision between the different approaches to bioethics of
    Mulhall and Fukuyama from the New Democrats, an influential mainstream
    political think-tank. Mulhall emerges as the clear winner:

    "In contrast to Fukuyama's cautious approach, Douglas Mulhall says "let
    'er rip" in Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics,
    Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World. Mulhall

    lays out a visionary future in which scientists and engineers make...

    [Robotics]
    Rat Whiskers Could Make Better Robots
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P126

    Betterhumans - To rats, whiskers are as important for sensory
    information as eyes are to humans. And they could soon be just as
    important for a new generation of mobile robots. UK researchers have
    received a £430,000 (about US$690,000) grant from the Engineering and
    Physical Sciences Research Council to build a robotic system that mimics
    rat whiskers. The system could help mobile robots working in confined
    spaces. [Simple distributed smart swarms are probably a big part of the
    future...

    [Sci-fi]
    The Harrow Technology Report for March 10, 2003
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P125

    The Harrow Group - Another issue of the Harrow Technology Report with
    the usual blend of current technology news (e.g. new USB devices) and
    more advanced ideas such as DNA computing and: ...We may see
    teleportation move to molecules, as predicted. And the thought of
    transmitting the "data of a human" might well still seem "impossible" at
    that time. Yet I remember all too well when the fastest that we could
    transmit data over a phone line was 10 characters per second,...

    [Technology]
    Harnessing Atoms to Create Superfast Computers
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P112

    NY Times - George Johnson's "Shortcut Through Time" addresses one of the
    most excruciatingly complex, mysterious and deeply fascinating topics in
    modern science, namely quantum computing: the manipulation of quantum
    states to perform computations far faster than is possible on any
    conventional computer. The book's remarkable achievement is that it
    makes this deeply arcane topic accessible and understandable — even, I
    think, for the reader unsophisticated in physics or computing....

    [Technology]
    On guard: Sentinel plants could warn of bioterror
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P115

    Science Blog - U.S. soldiers walk down a trail in a war zone. One of
    them pulls out a hand-held electronic device and points it at a native
    plant. The readings on the device indicate the plant was exposed to
    nerve gas sometime in the last 48 hours, allowing the soldiers to don
    protective gear before they suffer a lethal dose. Although such a device
    does not exist, it's not as far-fetched as it may sound. As concerns
    grow over the threat of bioterrorism and weapons of mass...

    [Technology]
    US in fusion rethink
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    http://www.transhumanism.com/news.php?id=P103

    BBC - The United States may rejoin Iter, the international consortium to
    build an experimental fusion reactor. It is just three years since the
    Americans walked away from the project, complaining about excessive
    costs and technical issues...

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