28.07.2009
“Nanoparticles able to make basic decisions about whether to release their contents offer the prospect of delivering drugs exactly when and where they are needed, say chemists. [...]”
Source/article: New Scientist
3D printing for new tissues and organs
June 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
18.06.2009
” A more effective way to build plastic scaffolds on which new tissues and even whole organs might be grown in the laboratory is being developed by an international collaboration between teams in Portugal and the UK. [...]”
Source/article: PhysOrg
Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2009
May 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
Technology Review presents its annual list of 10 technologies that can change the way we live:
- Intelligent Software Assistant
- $100 Genome
- Racetrack Memory (ultradense memorychip with the help of nanotech)
- Biological machines
- Paper Diagnostics (cheap diagnostic systems of paper)
- Liquid battery
- Travelling wave reactor (new nuclear reactor design)
- Nanopiezoelectronics
- Hash Cache (for cheaper internet)
- Software defined networking
Source/article: Technology Review
Extending Human Life–And Data
January 26, 2009 Leave a Comment
Gene mapping places enormous demands on computing, power and data storage.
People want to live longer, but the cost may be enormous and create fallout in places you never expected.
Article/source: Forbes Online
