FuturePundit
Future technological trends and their likely effects on human society, politics and evolution.
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- Blood Vessels Grown From Human Skin Tissues
Cells taken from a person can be grown into blood vessels and reimplanted into the same person. This avoids immune rejection problems. From a snippet of a patientÂ’s skin, researchers... - Video Viewing Not Seen As Benefit For Baby Learning
Special videos not magic mental development tool for babies. The Seattle team surveyed more than 1,000 families in February 2006 and found that infants between 8 and 16 months who... - Low Glycemic Index Diet Delays Macular Degeneration
Avoid the carbohydrates which digest quickly and your eyes won't age as rapidly. Eating fewer refined carbohydrates may slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a new... - Single Shot Gene Therapy Spreads Through Mouse Brain
The brain, not space, is the final frontier. Our brains are all growing old and are the hardest part of the body to repair and rejuvenate. We need gene therapy... - Single Mutation In Bird Flu Adapts To Upper Respiratory Tract
H5N1 avian influenza hasn't spread into humans on a pandemic scale yet because it is not well adapted to spread between humans. In birds it reproduces in a warmer environment... - US Home Solar Installations Up But Still Small
Rooftop photovoltaic installs are still a drop in the bucket. Photovoltaic cells, most of which are made from silicon, have exploded in use around the country over the past five... - More Fish For Pregnant Women?
More fish for developing fetuses? Washington, D.C. ---- Today a Maternal Nutrition Group comprised of top professors of obstetrics and doctors of nutrition from across the country, in partnership with... - 72 Year Old Sperm Donor To Father His Grandchild
His son can't get the son's wife pregnant and so dad is going to do the job. A 72-year-old man is due to become the father of his own "grandchild"... - Fuel Efficiency Decline Reverses In United States
The long term trend toward lower fuel efficiency cars in the United States appears to have stopped and slightly reversed in the face of more expensive gasoline and diesel fuel.... - Extraction Of Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere Seen Possible
Frank Zeman and Klaus Lackner have proposed a way to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in order to prevent global warming, but at what cost? Removing CO2 from the... - India-Pakistan Nuclear War Would Kill Over Billion People
A nuclear war between Pakistan and India would kill over a billion people just from starvation. "An Assessment of the Extent of Projected Global Famine Resulting from Limited, Regional Nuclear... - Micro-Incubator For Cells Automates Experiments
Silicon technology applied to microfluidics is going to revolutionize biological science. Integrating silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels, some thinner than a human hair, researchers at... - Anorexia Like Ecstasy Drug On Brain?
Anorexics might be responding to something that is stimulating an appetite-suppressing type of receptor which MDMA (ecstasy) also stimulates. In mouse studies, Valerie Compan from the University of Montpellier, and... - Conscientious Goal Oriented People Get Less Alzheimer's Disease?
Will trying to make yourself more conscientious slow your brain's aging? Or is conscientiousness a genetically caused trait? What is the mechanism fort this effect? Individuals who are more conscientious—in... - Large Genetic Component To How People Play Economic Game
Genes may play a big role in determining how people make economic choices. An international team of researchers including an MIT graduate student has demonstrated for the first time that...
