Stem cells taken from a patient’s own heart have, for the first time, been used to repair damaged heart tissue, researchers claim. The preliminary trial was on patients with heart failure who were having heart bypass surgery. During the operation, a piece of heart tissue, from the right atrial appendage, was taken. While the patient …
Vet-stem is using stem cell treatments in horses that should work in humans Popular Science – Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next? Since 2002 the company Vet-Stem has treated 4,141 horses for soft-tissue injuries such as tendinitis and muscle contusions, and 70 to 80 percent have healed completely. There is …
USC researcher Dr. Alice Parker and her team at USC have created a rudimentary neural circuit composed of carbon nanotubes. This circuit can emulate certain aspects of a biological synapse. Although it is vastly simpler than a biological neuron, this nanotube circuit represents the first step towards the eventual creation of a fully functional artificial …
The band structure of graphene with its two valleys is shown in blue and red. Valley-based electronics, also known as valleytronics, is one step closer to reality. Two researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have shown that the valley degree of freedom in graphene can be polarized through scattering off a line defect. Unlike …
4-point conductivity measurement of the new transparent conducting film developed by prof. Cor Koning (left) and prof. Paul van der Schoot (right). The black pot contains a dispersion of carbon nanotubes in water, and the white pot contains the conducting latex. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke. A replacement material for indium tin oxide has been developed …
The Fujinuma Dam, also known as the Fujinu Dam, was an embankment dam on a tributary of the Abukuma River 16 km (10 mi) west of the city office of Sukagawa City in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The dam failed on 12 March 2011 after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. The flood washed away five houses while …
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Tokyo Electric reports the four Fukushima Daini reactors were shutdown UPDATE- Despite being shutdown -there are still preparations being made for a pressure release. Unit 1 (shut down at 2:48PM on March 11th) – Reactor is shut down and reactor water level is stable. – Offsite power is available. – Control rods are fully inserted …
1. Taiwan is set to relax controls on investments from China in high-tech companies * Chinese companies will be allowed to own up to a 10 percent share in Taiwanese semiconductor and flat-panel manufacturers * Chinese firms will also be allowed to own up to a 20 percent share in the less-sensitive tech sectors such …
iPad 2 and iPad 2.5 rumors * the rear camera is likely 5 to 8 megapixels and the front camera somewhere between 1.3 and 2 * iPad 2 is in production and on track for a spring debut. It will still have a 9.7-inch screen and some basic upgrades like a dual-core CPU, more memory, …
Two videos about D-Wave and quantum annealing from presentations made on October 22, 2010 Dwave has solved over 12 million Ising problems using their adiabatic quantum computer chips over the past 12 months. They are focused on machine learning applications. They are getting lower generalization error and faster training for binary classifiers for image classication …