Human Gene Therapy Journal – The success of gene therapy will depend on the ability to advance viral delivery vectors to commercialization At an ever-increasing pace, there is promising news regarding clinical results using investigational gene therapy products is emerging, including several exciting advances with recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV). Yuan and coworkers present an improved …
A new study by researchers at MIT and other institutions shows that it may be possible to predict which technologies are likeliest to advance rapidly, and therefore may be worth more investment in research and resources. The researchers found that the greater a technology’s complexity, the more slowly it changes and improves over time. They …
In July 2010, Nextbigfuture had a Sander Olson interview of roboticist Dennis Hong. Dennis Hong’s dream for 2020 is to see the CHARLIE H robot being used in millions of households as a robot helper. Forbes has a recent feature on Dennis Hong and his humanoid robot Charli. New robot wave using open source software …
Ars Technica describes the creation of the HPU4Science cluster. The cluster, known as HPU4Science, began with a $40,000 budget and a goal of building a viable scientific computation system with performance roughly equivalent to that of a $400,000 “turnkey” system made by NVIDIA, Dell, or IBM. They spent $30,000 and built a system with estimated …
A nanogenerator, which scientists used to energize an LED light and an LCD display, could power portable electronics in the future using electricity generated by body movement. Credit: Zhong Lin Wang, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology After six years of intensive effort, scientists are reporting development of the first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip …
EEtimes reporst that several years after its first consumer market appearance in the wireless gaming interface for Nintendo’s Wii, MEMS sensor-based gesture recognition is extending its reach to smartphones and is set to take hold of that most iconic of consumer interfaces: the TV remote. Apple was the first to pick up on microelectromechanical sensors’ …
Economy Watch lists the 12 fastest growing economies of 2011 GDP Growth Value 2011 forecasted population and GDP (Constant Prices, National Currency) Ghana 20.146 % (24.3 million people, US$23.4 billion GDP) Qatar 14.337 % (1.5 million people, US$132 billion GDP) Turkmenistan 12.178 % (5.5 million people, US$41 billion GDP PPP) China 9.908 % (1.35 billion …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A model of the implantable bioartificial kidney shows the two-stage system. Thousands of nanoscale filters remove toxins from the blood, while a BioCartridge of renal tubule cells mimics the metabolic and water-balance roles of the human kidney. UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There was an estimate of $30 billion to save the lives of 10 million women and children but this cost estimate does not include other heathcare improvements needed to save all of those lives. The actual cost estimate is about $100-200 billion, but those programs still …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software McKinsey Global has a 94 page report on Debt and deleveraging : The Global Credit Bubble and its economic consequences and the Economist magazine has a special feature on debt and created a global debt map. The sustainability of debt shows that higher economic (GDP) growth …
Buzz Aldrin continues to push for an Earth Mars Cycling vehicle, which Buzz believes can be in operation by 2019. Buzz Aldrin’s personal website [Wikipedia] A Mars cycler (or Earth-Mars cycler) is a special kind of spacecraft trajectory that encounters Earth and Mars on a regular basis. The term Mars cycler may also refer to …