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803. Detecting cancer by scanning surface veins
A new technology for cancer detection that eliminates the need for drawing blood has been developed by Purdue University researchers. ...
1756. IBM Prints Tiniest Image In Gold 'Ink'
Researchers at IBM and ETH Zurich (an international research organization) have demonstrated a new, advanced way to "print" REALLY SMALL IMAGES with unprecidented accuracy and resolution. The technique enables printing with 60-nanometer "dots" (100 times smaller than a human red blood cell) at a resolution of 100,000 dots per inch. The researchers showed off by printing this image of Robert Fludd’s 17th-century image of the sun (the alchemists’ symbol for gold). The image is made, according to a press release, with "roughly 20,000 gold particles, each of them 60 nanometers in diameter. The printing method precisely placed one particle per dot, thus creating the smallest piece of artwork ever printed from single pigment particles."
2025. Lung-Cancer Blood Test
Researchers at Panacea Pharmaceuticals have found that 99 percent of patients with all stages of lung cancer have detectable levels of a particular protein, HAAH, in their blood that healthy individuals do not. ...
2161. Tiny probe gives wide-angle view of your insides
An ultrasound probe about the size of a grain of rice that could offer panoramic views from inside the human body is being tested by New Mexico University researchers. They say it could be threaded through blood vessels in the brain or swallowed like...
2442. Eee PC USB Flash and Bluetooth Hack
Right now, 8GB is the most storage you can expect to find inside an Asus Eee PC, and in order to get one larger than 4GB, you have to have it imported. Good luck with that, since its hard enough getting a 4GB one these days.
Besides storage, another great feature the Eee is lacking is Bluetooth. Well, a crafty user of the EeeUser forums decided to hack together a pair of internal USB ports onto the miniPCIe port and install a 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager and a USB Bluetooth adapter all comfortably nested away inside the case of the Eee.
The best part about this hack is, it uses USB, so, you can change what’s connected, or even upgrade with considerable ease. Now it does appear Johnx had to remove the outer shells of both USB devices, but that’s a small price to pay for an Eee that now has Bluetooth and a usable 20 gigabytes of storage instead of the 4 it came with.
Personally, Bluetooth isn’t that important of a feature for me, so I’d probably throw 2 flash drives in there. In case you are wondering, there is a complete parts list, some instructions, and links to the threads this guy used for info for his mod.
The 20GB+ Eee PC mod [via Engadget]
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2597. Treating Breast Cancer with Heat
Heating breast-cancer cells with focused beams of microwave energy after chemotherapy can significantly shrink and kill tumors, according to results from a new clinical trial. The treatment increases blood flow into tumors, allowing chemotherapy ...
2681. Glucoboy Rewards Blood Sugar Testing With GBA And Online Gaming
By Andrew Liszewski The current method for testing one’s blood sugar isn’t exactly fun, and that’s coming from someone who’s technically a grown-up. So I can’t imagine the process is any more enjoyable for kids who have to do it on a daily basis. So the Glucoboy is a blood glucose meter that can be used in [...]
3086. CTC-chip isolates, analyzes rare tumor cells in bloodstream
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Circulating tumor cells, which are more commonly referred to as CTCs, have thus far remained practically useless when it came to aiding in clinical decision making, but a new development could enable these rare cells to finally be used for guiding treatment. Reportedly, a crew of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital have crafted a "microchip-based device (dubbed CTC-chip) that can isolate, enumerate and analyze CTCs from a blood sample," which has the "potential to be an invaluable tool for monitoring and guiding cancer treatment." Additionally, researchers can look forward to "better understanding the biology of cancer cells and the mechanisms of metastasis," but there's still quite a bit of work to be done before the device can be put to clinical use.
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