Stem cell injections reduce scarring during bypass surgery and possibly increase survival of patients with surgery

11 patients were injected with stem cells during bypass surgery. The stem cells injected into their hearts caused a 40% reduction in the size of scarred tissue. Such scarring occurs during a cardiac event such as a heart attack, and can increase the chances of further heart failure. The scarring was previously thought to be …

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Quantum Computers Powered By Photon Machine Guns

New Scientist reports of a new solution to increasing the numbers of entangled qubits for quantum computers. It will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing. Raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out …

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Intel Switching to Optical Connections for Computer Components in 2010 Starting at 10 Gigabits per second and Demostrated the Larrabee Chip

MIT Technology Review reports that starting in 2010 Intel plans to sell inexpensive cables with fiber-optic-caliber speed to connect, for instance, a laptop and an external hard drive, or a phone and a desktop computer. Speeding up communication inside computers and between computers will By 2010, says Dadi Perlmutter, vice president of Intel’s mobility group, …

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