Inventions in the field of medicine

	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...Surgery can take a huge step towards the future due to a new surgical robot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine. It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a lea...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
... 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in science, medicine and technology. Some of these inventions may seem weird and hilarious nevertheless they are truly breakthroughs in science. Medicine Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that a...
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	Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
...000 trillion operations per second. The computer, called RoadRunner, is twice as fast the previous fastest computer IBM's Blue Gene system, which was considered to be the fastest supercomputer, being three times faster than other supercomputers in the world. The RoadRunner was developed by the engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, and IBM Corp. from 13,000 of computer chips. RoadRunn...
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	New Technologies Show the Complex Structure of the Brain
...A usual scanning of a human brain presents a muted gray image, which one can distinguish quite easy by a series of complex folds. However, a neuroscientist working at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, Van Wedeen, claims that such image is only a shadow of the actual brain. Recently scientists revealed the real structure of our brain, featuring accurately ordered tangle of nerve cells and the elongated projections...
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	Only 13 % People Have Internet Access
...Only 13 percent of people on the planet have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing. In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries canno...
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	IBM and Cisco: Attempt to Unite the Communication Software Developers
...IBM and Cisco announced their common effort in creating a unified platform for communications and collaboration. The idea of this project is to provide the developers of different communication services with one single platform, rather then a series of them and from different vendors. The current platform will be based on Eclipse and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative), as stated by the representatives of IBM and Ci...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...afic project unite to collect the DNA database all over the world so to make every person aware of the place where his or her ancestors come from. The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find tr...
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	Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage
... The officials from Microsoft, after several complaints from users, confessed that the company's product, entitled Live OneCare security suite, accidentally has been erasing all messages of those that use whether Outlook or Outlook Express. The company's forum concerning OneCare included postings that state the cause of the message deletion. Users found out that their e-mails were deleted by an antivirus program. It su...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...Researchers at the University of Washington have probably found a way to defeat the bacteria, which become more and more resistant to drugs. A new method of fighting such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice. One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the c...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...A new drug list was revised by Britain's drug experts to reveal that alcohol and tobacco put your health at greater risk than such dangerous drugs as LSD, cannabis and ecstasy. Experts conducted a new all-compassing research with the government top advisory committee involved to make a shocking conclusion on the harm of regular tobacco and alcohol. A modern classification of drugs doesn't reflect the real situatio...
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	Football fans have bitten off the ears of a tavern keeper
...Dimitris Tsibibakis, a Greek tavern keeper, working at a health resort, lost both of his ears while trying to part football fans. The fight began in his tavern during a football match between Greece and Turkey. When he tried to part the fighting fans they have bitten off significant parts of his ears. According to an official source, a group of Bulgarian immigrants, who entered the tavern, starting screaming and suppor...
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	Microsoft Upgrades Its Xbox 360
...Due to a cruel battle on the field of gaming consoles, where the most severe struggles are among Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft is to issue an upgraded version of their Xbox 360. The new model is to have a bigger hard-drive (120-gigabyte), a better high-def video support and a more stylish look, which, judging by the recent mirror-styled Wii, is a very significant factor in this sphere. As stated by representat...
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	France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models
...French Health Ministry has reviewed the issue of skinny models on the French catwalks and suggested that such models need special attention, but they will not be banned from the podiums, as the French Health Ministry officials said on Friday. After two Latin American models died in 2006 of anorexia, designers, model agencies and the entire fashion industry have been massively attacked by the publicity for promoting such ...
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ...
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