From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 07:59:05 MST
*http://www.futureport.dk/news - 2003-03-10 (12 articles)*
[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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