In the latest Fortune magazine, Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electic said to his R&D labs: “I went and said Molecular medicine- we’re going to own it. Nanotechnology-we’re going to own it This was in response to the question: You’ve invested hundreds of millions in the R&D labs at GE, but there’s more to it …
FDA proposes investigational drug rule to make it easier for those with no other treatment option to try drugs that have not been approved yet. This relates to the post today about CNN’s Anderson Coopers 360 weeklong question of how far will you go for health and wellbeing Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought …
The yeast strain they made can tolerate ethanol concentrations as high as 18 percent–almost double the concentration that regular yeast can handle without quickly dying. In addition, the new strain makes about 20 percent more ethanol by processing more of the glucose, and it speeds up fermentation by 70 percent. So far the researchers have …
This week (Dec 11-14, 2006) CNN’s show Anderson Cooper 360 asks the question how far would you go for Health and Well Being? This link is a place where you can provide feedback. My questions are 1. What is wrong with our society that we have to go outside the United States for better, newer …
IBM has made germanium-antimony-tellurium phase change memory. The advantage of the new material, according to the scientists, is that it can be used to create switches over 500 times faster than today’s flash chips. Moreover, the prototype switch developed by the scientists is just 3 nanometers high by 20 nanometers wide, offering the promise that …
According to the laws of physics it would be more efficient to have our energy based upon electricity instead of hydrogen Hydrogen as an energy carrier would be less efficient than electricity. In a sustainable energy future, electricity will become the prime energy carrier. We now have to focus our research on electricity storage, electric …
Centauri dreams has a couple of interesting articles about near term solar sails. Gregory Benford (University of California at Irvine) and his brother James (Microwave Sciences) have solar sail with a painted polymer layer that desorp from the sail as extra propulsion The solar sail could be deployed in low Earth orbit by conventional rocket. …
FromScience Daily, more on Ned Seemans DNA nanorobotic arms. NYU chemistry professor Nadrian C. Seeman and his graduate student Baoquan Ding have developed a DNA cassette — shown here as red L-shaped structures — containing a nanomechanical device that can be inserted within a DNA array and function there. (Image courtesy of New York University) …
Carbon nanotube muscle 100 times stronger than normal muscle has been created. Spinning carbon nanotubes into yarn a fraction of the width of a human hair, researchers have developed artificial muscles that exert 100 times the force, per area, of natural muscle. This is according to Ray Baughman, director of the Nanotech Institute at the …
California Institute of Technology researchers successfully combined up to 12 different DNA logic gates in five cascading levels, although the process takes hours, they report in the December 8 Science. A group of so-called logic gates performs each operation. In the A AND C operation, for example, one gate would consist of strand B intertwined …
New light physics with plasmons that could bridge light, matter and electronics. Plasmon computers could operate at 100 Terahertz – 1000 terahertz or 20,000 to 200,000 times faster than mainstream computer chips. Part of what I think is the growing trend of greater control of all information, light, energy, matter and magnetism. (ILEMM) Two-dimensional light, …