Viruses can be now detected in fluids and their detection is of major importance in medical diagnostics. However, despite these recent advances, current assays are time consuming and labour intensive. Professor Hegner’s research shows a more efficient and practical system in detecting the viruses by using micro-sized cantilevers to directly detect viruses binding to membrane …
A team led by Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand, vice-dean of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Engineering, has developed a nano-sized laboratory, complete with a microscopic workbench, to measure water quality in real time. Their “lab on a chip” is a breakthrough in the effort to keep water safe from pollution and bioterrorist threats, pairing biology with …
The therapy aims to stop HIV re-producing A one-time gene therapy that puts an anti- HIV RNA weapon into blood cells is safe and, in higher doses and stronger form, could make the body resist the AIDS virus, a clinical trial suggests. This “major advance in the field” is the largest clinical trial ever to …
Carnival of Space week 90 is up at 21st Century Waves This site contributed the article on the computing power of a full fledge Kardashev III galactic civilization Centauri Dreams looks at protecting a space ship traveling at 20-30% of lightspeed from dust. For a starship moving at 0.3 c, a typical grain of carbonaceous …
Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [via Nanowerk.com] Nadrian Seeman, co-author: “This is a programmable unit that allows researchers to capture and maneuver …
A Goldman Sachs study on “The Expanding Middle: The Exploding Middle Class and Falling Global Inequality” While America laments the loss of its middle class as there is divergence between a mass affluent and wealthy class and those at middle class, there is the rise of the global middle class. The global middle class is …
Scientists and engineers at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) are hoping to save around Rs.5 billion (Rs.500 crore or $104 million) by modifying the design of four fast reactors nuclear power plants. With the experience gained from prototype that is being completed, the new projects can be completed in five years as …
The initials for Stanford University are written in electron waves on a piece of copper and projected into a tiny hologram. Stanford researchers describe how they have created letters more than four times smaller than the IBM xenon atom arranged initials. “But in this experiment we’ve stored some 35 bits per electron to encode each …
1. Photonic chip breaking the terabit-per-second barrier. Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables. The solution involves a photonic chip that uses laser light for switching signals, and a form of the exotic material type, chalcogenide. One of the key breakthroughs researchers made …
There is an online paper that discusses technical work and a proposed program to get detailed Molten Salt Reactor designs built. A powerpoint presentation illustrates the proposals from the japanese technical report. There is the Ralph Moir paper on how to launch and scale a thorium Molten Salt Reactor program.
There is a patent for a electronically enabled bullet dodging capability. If a sniper is firing from 2500 meters then there is 4 seconds to move out of the way if the bullet can be detected as it emerges from the muzzle. (H/T to Firearm blog The knee reflex takes about 20 milliseconds to fire. …