New medical technology

	Animal Crew Returns from Space
...ere injured before they were placed into biopack. The goal of that study was to reveal how body metabolism was affected by gravity. Some of the researchers were developed by students from Voronej Medical University, Russia. For example, they elaborated an experiment were cockroaches were tested on their endurance and how their muscle tissue would be affected by gravity. One of the interesting conceptions developed ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
...and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become wrinkled. Chemistry Japanese scientist Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan managed to extract a vanilla fragrance and flavor from cow dung. Nutrition Brian Wansink of Cornell University, once questioned the limits of human appetite and studied the topic by feeding people ...
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	4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws
...nd lips that can be distinguished for a person without any medical education. The 4D imagery augment the opinion when the foetus is considered to be conscious around 18 weeks. Dr. Savell says that new scans can become a powerful tool to take part in the debates referring to the limiting the time of late-term abortions in the US and the UK to 18 weeks instead of 24 . Many doctors consider the foetus to be able to feel p...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...ed their researches to genetics. Their researches have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mammals. These discoveries led to a new technology, named gene targeting in mice. This technology is applied in many areas of biomedicine, which encompasses basic experiments, researches and development of therapies. The new technology is used to make particul...
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	Glowing Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets
...ein the pigs that took part in the experiment were able to glow green under ultraviolet light, the experts reported. Robin Lovell-Badge, specialist in genetics at Britain's National Institute for Medical Research said that this technology is potentially valuable for solving the problem of human transplant organs. The glowing piglets' birth showed that genetic modification was successful, however further trials are nec...
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	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...y the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo Majno, confessed that there has been a tragic human error. Doctors mentioned that the woman, although being HIV-positive, didn...
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	Fox Interactive Media Purchased Strategic Data Corp.
...On Thursday Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation, stated that it has acquired Strategic Data Corp., a company that deals with interactive advertising technology. This step was made to improve Fox's advertising, and mainly the way marketers perform it. MySpace's officials stated that the technology used by Strategic Data is to help Fox Interactive Media automatically match advertisements with those users that ...
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	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
...through a small body opening. Every movement is thus viewed on the TV screen. The study regarding the abilities of surgeons who played or play video games was made in Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. 33 surgeons participated in the test, which later showed interesting results: those who played video games with a frequency of not less than three hours per week made 37% less errors, the job they made was 27% faste...
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	Google's New Purchase Called Adscape
...million and the company forecasts that the revenue is to increase up to $ 605 million. Today video game publishers say that there's more space available for in-game advertising so investing in the new genre is worth the risk. However, advertisers are still quite unconfident about placing in-game ads. Analysts say that with such giants like Google and Microsoft can motivate marketers to place their ads and convince them...
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	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...Britain's Armed Forces may no longer take part in operations countering Iraq's threat without considerable funds in essential technology advancements, where scientists make their greatest contribution, announced a committee of MPs. As it was disclosed by the Commons Defense Committee report, scientists from Dstl (Defense Science and Technology Laboratory), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, have their final word for...
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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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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...Scientists gathered at Arctic Science Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before. Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
..., shampoos, cosmetics, lubricants, paint and soaps, is strongly connected to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in adult males. This scientific discovery was made by the University of Rochester Medical Center. Scientists think that even in low doses the exposures to phthalates and several other common chemicals might reduce the levels of testosterone in men. Richard Stahlhut, A Preventive Medicine resident at the U...
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	Search Information Will Go Private
...or the majority, other search engines could adopt this policy too and produce the same effect as Google will. On the other hand, Ari Schwartz, deputy director at the Group Center for Democracy and Technology, was more optimistic. He said he was glad that Google finally tried to find a compromise between being the world's major information collector and, at the same time, an Internet privacy defender. ...
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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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