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Biotech for food, fuel

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the jatropha genome as future fuel possibilities, and talks about algae as a way to convert carbon back into a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, green, bioengineering, oil, food, algae, carbon, energy, crops, chemicals

Videos 2008-09-18

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Go med young man

Go med young manThink of all the doctor appointments that you've ever hadYeow---I didn't like any of them---traumatized!Doctors are expensive to educate...... leading to large loans. They require expensive procedures and prescriptions to do their jobs.How many Doctors can the country afford?I've read that the mathematically best and brightest...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, young man, health care, Socialized Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Researchers Use Commercial Database Tools to Analyze Terabytes of Data More Easily

The Daggett Research Group within the University of Washington Department of Bioengineering is world-renowned in the study of protein stability, function, and folding. However, because the group had more than 64 terabytes of simulation data stored on more than 10 Linux-based file servers and 100 disks, mining the data was...

Tags: Researcher, OLAP, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Data Mining, File Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-08-01

Cellphones used for medical imaging?

A team of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique for transmitting medical images via cellphones. This potentially could bring medical imaging to the 'three-quarters of the world's population which has no access to ultrasounds, X-rays, magnetic resonance images, and other medical imaging technology.' The...

Tags: Patient, University Of California At Berkeley, Medical Imaging, Imaging, Cell Phone, Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Nerac Case Study: Cellular Bioengineering Inc.

In order for CBI to make strategic go-forward decisions on its Neural Matrix Chip technology, Mr. Chinn and his colleagues required critical research relating to its intellectual property development, competitors and possible future uses for the technology itself. Make the wrong decision, and the company ran the risk of patent...

Tags: Patent Infringement, Decision, Nerac, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-04-10

USAF ready for cyber offensive

ZDNet UK has an exclusive interview with LTGEN Robert Elder Jr., who said that the Air Force Cyber Command is set to become operatational Oct. 1. Cyber Command will not just fight off "cyber" attacks from foreign countries (read "China") and terrorist groups but will go...

Tags: Ars Technica, R&D, Adversary, Air Force, Research & Development, Government, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-06

Using bacteria as medical robots

Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...

Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?

In order to keep healthy the 200 million chicken raised in South Carolina -- and the humans who ate them -- Clemson University researchers are using nanoparticles. They call this intelligent chicken feed. They have built 'nanoparticles that mimic the host cell surface and lock to targeted pathogens. The particles...

Tags: Clemson University, Professor, Patent, Nanoparticle, Tzeng, Nanotechnology, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-23

Rice re-engineers Gleevec for Novartis

Ariel Fernandez, an Argentine native and a professor of bioengineering at Rice, has led a group of scientists in re-engineering Gleevec, the Novartis anti-cancer drug, to avoid a rare heart-related side effect. Fernandez is among those given credit for the dehydron, a hydrogen bond with a propensity...

Tags: Novartis AG, Molecule, Fernandez, Productivity, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Artificial cartilage just five years away

Kyriacos A. Athanasiou believes he can create artificial cartilage for knee joints, jaws and similar applications within five years.Athanasiou, a bioengineering professor at Rice, across the street from the Texas Medical Center, has developed a method for creating cartilage from stem cells.While much of the work so far uses animal...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, stem-cell

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Bioengineered hearts are coming fast

According to researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M), we can now engineer prototypes of all cardiovascular structures: heart muscle, tri-leaflet valves, blood vessels, cell-based cardiac pumps and tissue engineered ventricles. In fact, they wrote that its possible today to engineer the heart piece by piece. But they also noted...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-04-01

You have two cows...

You have two cows...You have two cows... the cyberpunk version.Note: Unless you're familiar with cyberpunk literature and its themes, do not read this post.You have two cows, but don't like what they are. You want to improve then using cybernetics and biotechnology. You save a sample of...

Tags: Biotechnology, Processors, programmer, Only Problem, cow

Discussion threads 2007-02-24

Weaving cartilage in 3-D

Today, people who suffer from cartilage damage dont have effective therapies at their disposal. But now, researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have developed a weaving machine to repair cartilage. Using a patients own stem cells in conjunction with their new three-dimensional fabric "scaffold" could lead to a better...

Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-02-16

Wary of ethanol buzz

Wary of ethanol buzzDirect solar.. US lower 48 average 4.6kWh/m^2/day..Is plenty enough to run an industrialized society. (If you don't waste it needlessly.) Note: You would quickly freeze solid if not for the SUN and it's solar radiation. Ethanol is very inefficient use of solar energy. Biomass is roughly...

Tags: Government, Ethanol, Biomass

Discussion threads 2006-06-15

Brain scan technology could save babies' lives

Researchers at UCL University College London are developing a portable brain scanner which could help save the lives of premature and newborn babies in intensive care by avoiding to move them to conventional scanning facilities. A current prototype combines the advantages of both magnetic resonance imaging MRI and ultrasound. It...

Tags: EPSRC, scanner, UCL Dept

Blog posts 2005-12-25

Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future

At a Churchill Club event on July 13, entitled "Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future," Silicon Valley VCs, a biopharmaceutical executive and a pioneering stem cell scientist discussed the controversial topic. With the passage of Proposition 71 in November, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...

Tags: Stem-cell, Director, Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-08-01

Is technology making us safer?

"Is Technology Making Us Safer" was the most entertaining and bleak panel at the AO2005 Summit. Paul Saffo, Director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future, moderated the event, refereeing exchanges among the curmongeonly George Gilder, author and editor of the Gilder Technology Report; a rather joyless...

Tags: Joy, George Gilder

Blog posts 2005-07-22