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A group of researchers have successfully cloned primate embryos for the first time and used them to create stem cells, opening up the possibility that the same could potentially be done with humans. Using a technique called "somatic cell nuclear transfer," the researchers produced rhesus macaque mon...
More than 300 completely new medicines, vaccines and treatments for more than 150 conditions have entered the U.S. market since 1990, with a raft of benefits for consumers. The need for many surgeries has been reduced; survival rates are higher; quality of life has improved. Indeed, between 1986 and...
This month America's first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, signed up for the Social Security benefits she will start to collect in January. The new phase of life that she and her generation are entering is creating demand for new industries that affect everyone, one of which involves "brain ...
News that there may be a link between implanted RFID chips and cancer in mice and rats sent VeriChip shares plunging by as much as 14 percent on Tuesday. The company's troubles began over the weekend when results of three studies in the United States and Europe detailing the increased risk -- which ...
Technology similar to that which propels tiny droplets in inkjet printing might soon be used to painlessly inject medicine into the skin with a patch. Inkjet pioneer HP has created the drug delivery patches and is allowing Ireland-based medical device developer Crospon to sell them. The patches are ...
In an effort to bump up gameplay in the online realm of its "World of Warcraft" massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Blizzard Entertainment two years ago introduced a new villain, known by the colorful moniker of "Hakkar the Soulflayer." Little did the company know that the virtual plague...
This week, Dr. Gordon Lithgow, associate professor at the Buck Institute, showed up in San Francisco and spoke to a packed house on aging, new technologies and why interdisciplinary connections are helping to unravel the mysteries of growing old. While politics often slows down progress, computer sc...
Some laser printers release minute particles into the air that can become lodged into the deepest parts of the lung, possibly causing serious illnesses, according to scientists studying indoor air pollutants at offices. The findings were reported in a study published in the American Chemical Society...
Legal and medical professionals are often criticized for being way behind the times in terms of the technologies they use in their offices. It seems as though any doctor's or lawyer's office you enter has reams of papers and mountains of file cabinets taking up space just waiting to be lost, stolen ...
Are video games truly addictive -- or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday. As part of the meeting, the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and add...
Forget Nintendinitis -- the new affliction for those who enjoy gaming just a little too much may be "Acute Wiiitis," which was first reported Thursday in a brief posted to the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site. "A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pa...
IBM is close to unveiling a new Internet browsing technology that will help the visually impaired enjoy streaming video and animation. Code named "A-browser," which stands for "Accessibility Browser," the application uses and augments some of the technology found in IBM's Easy Web Browser, the softw...
Last week, there were three events worth talking about, but I'll mention one of them only in passing. The first was the entry of the Xbox Elite into the market, positioned against Sony. It is almost a great product -- and for new buyers, it may be good enough -- but Microsoft could have hit a home r...
A new software update for Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles includes Bluetooth support, enhanced downloading and the ability to help a Stanford University distributed-computing program hoping to cure protein-related diseases. Dubbed "Firmware 1.60," the upgrade can be installed directly to Internet-conn...
The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that Stanford University researchers are now enlisting Sony's PlayStation 3 in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer. The Tokyo-based Sony s...
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