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Killing cancer cells -- one at a time

A team of U.S. engineers and researchers have developed a laser surgery probe which targets individual cancer cells. This 'microscalpel' can destroy a single cancerous cell while leaving nearby cells intact. According to the lead researcher, 'You can remove a cell with high precision in 3-D without damaging the cells...

Tags: Imaging, Laser, Cell, Cancer Cell, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Detecting individual cancer cells with silicon

Take a silicon MEMS device as large as a business card.  (For more on MEMS technology click here.) Coat it with tens of thousands of microposts, and coat the posts with antibodies which detect a molecule only found on cancer cells. Then run blood...

Tags: Silicon, Blood, Cell, Cancer Cell, Semiconductors, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-20

A cancer-resistant mouse?

University of Kentucky researchers have created a cancer-resistant mouse by introducing a tumor-suppressor gene called 'Par-4' into an egg. The 'Par-4' gene, discovered in 1993, kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. It was originally found in the prostate, but this gene also can lead to the death of a...

Tags: Mouse, Gene, Par-4, Cancer Cell, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Turning cancer cells into nanomagnets

In its tomorrow issue, New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of New Mexico UNM had a brilliant idea to make bone-marrow biopsies more efficient for patients affected by leukemia. In "Nanoparticles that cancer cells can't resist," the magazine writes that the basic idea is to use magnetic iron...

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

Blog posts 2007-07-13

How silicon-based drugs could treat cancer

The lives of almost living organisms on Earth, including ourselves, are carbon-based. And when were sick, were exclusively treated with carbon-based medicines. But now, a team of chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had a bright idea. Why not replace carbon atoms by silicon atoms? And by modifying a drug...

Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature, cancer cell

Blog posts 2007-02-03

Additional Resources

Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream

A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...

Tags: General Electric Co., Health Care, Immelt, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics

.. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...

Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Are you worried that your cellphone is harming you?

The largest study showed cell users getting less cancerhttp://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/09/half-truths-on-cell-phone-dangers/The largest study showed cell users getting less cancer. I would trust the American Cancer Society before I trust the media who blindly report stories about electrosensitives without any fact checking.All this worry is over a little heat generated from the...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone, radiation

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

(This week in new cell phones--photos)

NT would you like some brain cancer with that?:o)

Tags: cell phone, photograph, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win

Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...

Tags: Document management, Vertical industries, win-win-win, imaging, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

SBSH RadGuard (Mobile)

The RadGuard Solution - RadGuard is an innovative utility that constantly monitors the mobile phone radiation level. Each time the phone radiation cross a certain safe threshold level, RadGuard triggers an alarm, based on user configuration, advising the user to avoid or minimize phone usage until radiation level is lower...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Radiation, Cell Phone, SBSH Mobile Software, RadGuard In-Call, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-10

When you see Chrome OS think business model

When you see Chrome OS think business modelI stopped reading at."But when you consider the $50/year price to license an anti-viral, the $30/year to license a malware program and the additional $30/year you need for a registry cleaner"Talk about exaggerating the costs to justify the rest of your article. Not...

Tags: Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Inc., operating system, malware, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

PARP inhibitors working against inherited cancers

PARP inhibitors working against inherited cancersInherited CancerSince there is no such thing as inherited cancer, the article should have read "for those genetically predisposed towards cancer". Current studies indicate everyone has cancer, but most people never experience adverse effects from it because their immune systems do not allow it...

Tags: PARP, inherited cancer, PARP inhibitor

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phone

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phoneIRSMore money to spread around.. GREAT WORK IRS..Another fine example of no new taxes for people under $250,000. YEA, what I thought and can you say " I TOLD YOU SO"..You asked for it you got it...In the UKHMRC do consider a work provided...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Tax Code, tax, Internal Revenue Service, phone, mobile phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Another WiFi health scare breaks out

Another WiFi health scare breaks outOh NOooooo! Not their precious cell phones![i]And if electromagnetic waves are truly dangerous, why aren?t the cranks going after cell phone companies, or TV and radio stations?[/i]They won't go after cell phones because most people are addicted to cell phones. If you were...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, health care, cell phone, Wi-Fi, phone

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

How far behind the tech curve is health care?

How far behind the tech curve is health care?A long, long wayHealthcare is a long, long way behind the general curve when it comes to technology. Here's why, though electronic records have the power to be transformational, the core basics of healthcare don't necessarily digitize well. Charting is...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Jobs considering liver transplant due to cancer complications

When it comes to reporting on the health of a CEO, it's shaky territory, but once it hits the wires, it must be done. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., CEO, Public Relations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Jobs to take medical leave; Back in the summer

Jobs to take medical leave; Back in the summerRE: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in the summerHope he recovers quickly and is back to good health.unfortunately sounds seriousOr maybe not, but we have no choice but to try to read between the lines because obviously neither Steve nor Apple...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Investment, medical leave, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., job

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

The Gupta choice

The Gupta choiceWe are doomed.Why stop at an obesity tax? Why not a risky sex tax? You know, all those questions they ask you when you give blood? (Have you ever, even once, had sex with another man?)We could have a risky behavior tax. Do you...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, thought police, tax, cigarette, obesity tax, fatty, risk

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

How some vegetables fight breast cancer

How some vegetables fight breast cancerTime for some weeding of noxious posts in this thread's garden?I cannot remenber what the compound was, but it is produced by healthy cells and consumes cancer cells. To me then, that says to concentrate upon making healthy cells and they will keep the body...

Tags: healthy cell, cell, breast cancer

Discussion threads 2008-12-24