Posted in Biology & Medicine, Ontology & Science on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Robot Surgeon Removes Brain Tumor
Dudes. Don’t call it a robot if it’s not a robot. It’s a remote-controlled manipulator. A good one, sounds like. But it’s not a robot.
Posted in Man & Environment, Systems Biology on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Researchers Mimic Bacteria To Produce Magnetic Nanoparticles
Well, this is good. We’re going to need smart little nano-critters to destroy all the other smart little nano-critters and synthetic organisms that are released accidentally.
Then we will have come full circle. Confident that we can do it all, we can then get back to baking bread, fishing in [...]
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Man & Environment, Society & Politics on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Boston Bans Trans Fats
What an interesting concept. With a precedent like this, city governments could ban all kinds of things, couldn’t they. Automobile emissions, for example.
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Healing on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Pain In Fibromyalgia Is Linked To Changes In Brain Molecule
I wonder if anybody reading this understands “brain molecule” but doesn’t understand “neurotransmitter”.
Interesting that they used acupuncture in the study instead of pharmaceuticals.
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Healing on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Healing on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
EIS health scan biosensor offers new screening approach
So I wonder if this technology is available in the US yet.
Posted in Systems Biology on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel
What happens when the suicide gene mutates?
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Mind & Consciousness on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Teenage anger linked to brains: study
Teenage anger linked to immaturity. News at 11.
Posted in Systems Biology on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Advances in Synthetic Biology 2008
I’m pleased to see they’ve at least included some ethics discussion in the conference agenda. That’s a long way from implementing ethics considerations, though.
Posted in Healing, Society & Politics on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Benign—Not: Unexpected deaths in probiotics study: Science News Online, Feb. 23, 2008
And here all along I thought it was illegal to experiment on humans.
