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• 2009 Energy and Fuel News of Note For 2010 Part 2

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 124
  Part two is a look at emerging technologies with fusion forefront.  Without any doubt the Holy Grail, planetary savior, or nirvana is likely fusion.  Following close on would be the dark horses such as Randell Mills’ BlackLight hydrino technology. Fusion outside of the multinational ITER project using the old ...
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• Top Graduate Schools for Biomedical Engineering (MD&DI)

  
  | Creo Quality, LLC — Authority: 134
  Here is a list of the Top Graduate Schools for Biomedical Engineering / Bioengineering:1. Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD2. Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA3. University of California-San Diego - La Jolla, CA4. Duke University - Durham, NC5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA5. ...
  2 days ago

• Secretary Chu Announces $100 Million for Advanced Research Projects

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 447
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that a second round of funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects that will be made available through the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). At an event today with Commerce Secretary Gary ...
  5 days ago

• Building new lifeforms with CAD

  
  Singularity & Futurism — Authority: 126
  New Scientist - 12.31.09 FIRST it was planes, trains and automobiles that benefited from computer-aided design technology. Now, as synthetic biologists attempt to build artificial life forms, a CAD system has been developed to allow them to redesign the stuff of life much faster and more easily. Deepak Chandran ...
  5 days ago

• Japanese Scientists Produce Translucent Goldfish

  
  The Gralien Report — Authority: 428
  In a technological demonstration of advanced bio-engineering, use of methods like vivisection to see the workings of organs in live goldfish have now, in a sense, been made obsolete. “You don’t have to cut it open. You can see a tiny brain above the goldfish’s black eyes,” says Yutaka Tamaru, an associate ...
  1 week ago

• Streambank sushi

  
  L.A. Creek Freak — Authority: 114
  Down in Long Beach, streambank stabilization continues.  The Friday before the Christmas holidays, Drew Goetting of Restoration Design Group (in other words, my boss) flew down from Berkeley to train folks working at the El Dorado Nature Center on the process.  Following is a little photo essay on making a ...
  1 week ago

• And Now For Something Completely Different: Traffic

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  I decided to mix things up a bit around here.  Instead of my normal news post, I will be writing a story.  I hope you enjoy. We started this whole operation almost five years ago.  We set up a front: a small exotic pet store which specialized in corals and tropical fish.  The store was fully operational. ...
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• Soon you wont have to move your mouth to speak

  
  Singularity & Futurism — Authority: 126
  PhysOrg.com - 12.21.09 (by Lisa Zyga) Model of the brain-machine interface for real-time synthetic speech production. The stroke-induced lesion (red X) disables speech output, but speech motor planning in the cerebral cortex remains intact. Signals collected from an electrode in the speech motor cortex are ...
  1 week ago

• Science and Soul: Nopenhagen

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  Science News in Brief The discovery of a 4.4 million year old fossil skeleton that may have belonged to an early human ancestor was discovered in October.  Now, this discovery is hailed by the journal Science , as the greatest scientific breakthrough of the year. Poll: View This Poll trends The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Codexis Aims to Bridge Biotech and Carbon Capture

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 447
  Codexis, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup with oil giants Shell and Chevron among its backers, is in the business of so-called evolved biocatalysts: It takes a natural microbe or enzyme and tweaks the DNA sequences to create new variants, then searches for the variants best suited to development of new, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Codexis Aims to Bridge Biotech and Carbon Capture

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 447
  Codexis, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup with oil giants Shell and Chevron among its backers, is in the business of so-called evolved biocatalysts: It takes a natural microbe or enzyme and tweaks the DNA sequences to create new variants, then searches for the variants best suited to development of new, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Enhanced Humanity - Good or bad?

  
  Singularity & Futurism — Authority: 126
  Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences - 10.1.09 Human Enhancement: Bioliberation or Biothreat? - Professor Julian Savulescu Visit to watch the video . Follow me on Twitter . Technological Singularity and Futurism is updated often; the easiest way to get your regular dose is by subscribing to our ...
  3 weeks ago

• Restrictive Monsanto Seed Contracts Investigated

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 781
  An AP investigation examines the cofidential contracts between Monsanto, which makes 90% of the worlds genetically engineered seeds, and the famers and smaller seed companies it bends to its will with extremely restrictive licensing agreements. With its near-total market dominance, when Monsanto decides to raises ...
  3 weeks ago

• H1N1 unexpected weakness revealed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Dec 11 (ANI): A new American study has found a weakness in H1N1’s method for dodging detection by the immune system.Jianpeng Ma, professor in bioengineering at Rice University and graduate student Jun Shen and Qinghua Wang, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Baylor College of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bioengineered bacteria. Carbon dioxide gas. Liquid fuel isobutanol. “… efficiency of light distribution and reduction of bioreactor cost.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 126
  James C Liao, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California – Los Angeles, has said:“This new approach avoids the need for biomass deconstruction, either in the case of cellulosic biomass or algal biomass, which is a major economic barrier for biofuel production ...
  3 weeks ago

• Typing by thought - Mind-machine interface breakthrough

  
  Singularity & Futurism — Authority: 126
  Live Science - 12.6.09 (by Charles Q. Choi) Electrodes placed directly on the surface of peoples brains allow them to type just by thinking of letters. Image credit: stockxpert. By focusing on images of letters, people with electrodes in their brains can type with just their minds, scientists now reveal. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Science & Soul: Cellular Automata

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  Science News in Brief Turns out that the Iron Curtain helped isolate Eastern Europe from more than the Western world.  It also blocked the import of alien bird species.  Restrictions on the movement of people and trade in Soviet bloc countries prevented invasive birds being imported, a problem which has plagued ...
  4 weeks ago

• SORRY, THE DEATH LOBBY PREFERS UNETHICAL::

  
  BrothersJudd Blog — Authority: 464
  Ethical stem-cell work advances (Drew Wilson, 12/05/09, THE WASHINGTON TIMES) Several Massachusetts firms are forging ahead with ambitious stem-cell research plans, circumventing the heated debate over embryonic research by using other, less-controversial methods. Biocell Center, a European technology firm, has ...
  4 weeks ago

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