from PhysOrg More American men seeking nip n’ tuck Once considered a woman’s domain, cosmetic surgery is increasingly attracting American men keen on remaining competitive in the workplace, improving their love life or getting rid of physical hangups. With procedures for droopy eyelids, bulging love handles and over-sized breasts, more men are readjusting their bodies […]
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Read more "20 years on, animals going strong at Chernobyl"from http://www.theage.com.au Why this brain flies on rat cunning It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of “living” computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening. The “brain”, grown from 25,000 […]
Read more "coming soon.. Stealth 2: When Rat’s Brains Attack"from The Washington Post Robots May Allow Surgery in Space Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space. The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case, can be slipped into small incisions and […]
Read more "swallowable surgical robots"from New York Times Meet the Life Hackers By CLIVE THOMPSON Published: October 16, 2005 In 2000, Gloria Mark was hired as a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Until then, she was working as a researcher, living a life of comparative peace. She would spend her days in her lab, enjoying the […]
Read more "NYT piece on “life hacking”"via Spectrum IEEE Rise of the Body Bots .. Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories. But don’t look for these remarkable new systems to bust bricks or spew lightning. The very first commercially available exoskeleton, scheduled to hit the market in […]
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Read more "Eye’ve been better.."from BBC NEWS Scientists probe anti-ageing gene Scientists in the United States have discovered a gene that can keep mice alive for 30% longer than normal. .. Because humans have a very similar version of the gene, the hope is that it will show a way to improve our declining years. .. The gene studied […]
Read more "UK boffins probe anti-ageing gene.."Researchers creating life from scratch – Science – MSNBC.com They’re called “synthetic biologists” and they boldly claim the ability to make never-before-seen living things, one genetic molecule at a time. They’re mixing, matching and stacking DNA’s chemical components like microscopic Lego blocks in an effort to make biologically based computers, medicines and alternative energy sources. […]
Read more "rise of “synthetic biologists”"Will We Merge With Machines? – Popular Science Popular Science has scoured the most promising research under way in bioengineering laboratories worldwide to take an informed look at how technology will enter and alter our bodies over the coming decades.
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