Who wants to live forever?
Do you want to live for a long time, in decent health? If the rate of innovation in medical science doesn’t slow down, you just may be able to.
If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first …
Once a Global Also-Ran, Hyundai Zooms Forward
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Maybe I should get a Hyundai for my next car.
Engineers from General Motors Co. took apart Hyundai Motor Co.’s Elantra sedan in 2009, studying the engine and trying to predict what the Korean auto maker might do next. When the latest Elantra launched this year, GM engineers were surprised: The compact sedan beat …
A Release Valve for Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
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Should you get a new bike seat, for the good of your sexual health? As the Blogfather would say, why take chances?
John Tierney, reports.
“I’ve spent much of my journalistic career debunking health scares, but the bike-saddle menace struck me as a no-brainer when I first heard about it. Why, if you had an …
A Cure for Aids?
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Brown was living in Berlin, Germany back in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukemia, when scientists there gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant that had astounding results.
Turning Washing into Books
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“If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines”.
Hans Rosling talks about the magic of the washing machine — a device that turns drudgery into books.
This is a popular topic around our house: our washing machine and our dishwasher free up hours each day and many more hours each week, allowing us to do …
‘Production line’ heart surgery
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Division of labor, specialization, and mass production. The result: complex heart surgeries for $1,800 and the head doctor wants to bring the price down to just $800. Now that’s healthcare reform.
Where Drugs Come From: The Numbers
We can now answer the question: “Where do new drugs come from?”. A new paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery takes on all 252 drugs approved by the FDA from then through 2007, and traces each of them back to their origins. What’s more, each drug is evaluated by how much unmet medical need it was addressed to and how scientifically innovative it was.
Will Doctors Use Bacteria To Kill Your Next Cancer?
James Byrne wrote about new developments in cancer treatment for Scientific American. Researchers are looking at ways to use bacteria to kill cancerous tumours, without making you sick the way chemotherapy and radiation do.
Plastics from engineered yeast?
We’re going to run out of oil someday — whether it’s now or 75 years from now. Plastics are pretty important and we’ll need a way to produce them once we run out of oil. Given all of that, how cool is this?
Engineered yeast could produce low-cost plastics from renewable resources:
The researchers engineered …
Diversity in Ratings
Scene Stealer – The Web Is Pouncing on Hollywood’s Ratings – NYTimes.com
The standard Hollywood ratings — G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — must now compete with all manner of Internet-based ratings alternatives, some of which are gaining new traction through social networking tools.
SceneSmoking.org, which monitors tobacco use in …