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.

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 the river and all the other activities that only hunter-gatherers have the leisure time to pursue.

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.

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.

U.S. Patent #7,316,649

• Should we be holding our breath till this hits the market?

EIS health scan biosensor offers new screening approach

• So I wonder if this technology is available in the US yet.

Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel

What happens when the suicide gene mutates?

Teenage anger linked to brains: study

Teenage anger linked to immaturity. News at 11.

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.

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.