New Tech

[weirjf]

All this cool stuff and still no cure for cancer. Maybe there is, they just make to much money off the drugs to TREAT it.

Cool stuff, Thanks

There is some promising cancer research out there. My dad had aggressive GI tract cancer and was put on a research program with an experimental drug. He died 6 years later unrelated to the cancer but the autopsy showed that the cancer was dead and calcified in his body, he could have lived to be 100 with it that way. They could have safely removed what was left.

Now, would that drug cause some heart valve issue or something later in life? No idea, which is why it takes these drugs so long to become approved. There are cancer drugs that will keep the cancer from killing you but will in itself kill you later from other damage. Bleach kills Hepatitis but I dare you to inject yourself with it.

I don't believe the "better money in treating cancer" stuff, there are companies dedicated to finding cures out there that aren't associated with the treatment pharm companies. The only difference between cancer cells and normal cells that surround them is the rate in which they split, which is why radiation works on them but making a medicine that targets those cells and not the healthy cells is where science hits a brick wall. You're trying to kill cells in a host body made up completely out of... cells.

[spyder]

Some new tech from the Israeli's. Could turn into new armor.

Tougher than stainless steel and even the previous record holder, bulletproof Kevlar, a new, transparent material developed by scientists in Israel is the hardest organic nanostructure known to man.
Inspired by an unlikely source -- the beta-amyloid proteins found in patients with Alzheimer's disease -- the new material could be applied to make steel tougher and may also lead to cheaper and lighter body armor.
"In principle it may be possible," to print body armor, said Ehud Gazit, a scientist at the Tel Aviv University and a co-author of a new article in the journal Angewandte Chemie international edition.
Watch videos about the future of military body armor.
"But we are thinking of more straightforward uses: to improve the mechanical properties of composite structures, such as ceramics and bulletproof glass," he added.
The new material is similar, but not identical, to the brain plaque linked with Alzheimer's disease. Dozens of amino acids form those beta-amlyoid proteins. The new synthetic proteins only have a fraction of those amino acids and are covered with an additional protective layer to create super-strong spheres.
The spheres are microscopic, ranging in size from about 30 nanometers to two micrometers. The material itself is transparent and easy to manipulate and manufacture.
It is also incredibly tough. Only a diamond-tipped probe could penetrate the material -- and to make a dent the probe needed to use twice the pressure of what it would take to make a mark in Kevlar.
All of these properties suggest the new material could be used in a range of applications, from bulletproof armor to stronger, lighter steel.
"I think this is an amazing discovery," said Kenneth Woycechowsky, a scientist at the University of Utah familiar with the research. "The rigidity and stiffness of these spheres is unique, and surpasses any other known organic molecule, even Kevlar."
Despite the promise of the new material, it could be decades before scientists are able to translate its design into functional applications.
"We have several patents and it is being licensed, so we hope to see it on the market soon," said Gazit. "But it always takes more time than one expects. Kevlar was invented in the 1960s but only in the 1980s did it become incorporated into body armor."

[theGinsue]

That all-terrain sequay device looks cool and it tears up the trail in a dirt environment, but I wonder how it would hold up to the rocky CO mtn passes/trails.

[Irving]

Spyder, thanks for bumping this. I must have missed it when I was very busy with starting work again back in Feb. If you don't browse www.slashdot.org, you should.

[Hoosier]

Spyder, thanks for bumping this. I must have missed it when I was very busy with starting work again back in Feb. If you don't browse www.slashdot.org, you should.

Also Wired.com

H.

[spyder]

Just lettin people know of the crazy shit that is out there...

Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by improving drug solubility and bio-distribution, providing a platform for combining targeting and imaging agents, and enabling membrane barriers to be crossed as well as making drug and imaging agent combination therapies possible.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...ng-agents.html
Full research paper http://www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...vkihpey4.alice

They can use these nano vehicle's to deliver the medicine directly to the source needed so you don't have to dose the patient up on whatever kind of meds they need. They were only talking about this stuff when I was in biotech, now it's here. Think about it, if you have cancer, instead of taking a really big dose of chemo and drugging yourself at the same time you are trying to kill the cancer, these nano meds deliver the exact right amount to your tumor to kill it and it's done, you don't get sick from the over dosing of chemo. Think of all the different things that could work with?

[spyder]

Think of what you could do with this kind of thing...

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The Nanomaterial changes its strength by electric signals.
(PhysOrg.com) -- A world premiere: a material which changes its strength, virtually at the touch of a button. This transformation can be achieved in a matter of seconds through changes in the electron structure of a material; thus hard and brittle matter, for example, can become soft and malleable. What makes this development revolutionary, is that the transformation can be controlled by electric signals. This world-first has its origins in Hamburg. Jörg Weißmüller, a materials scientist at both the Technical University of Hamburg and the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht, has carried out research on this groundbreaking development, working in cooperation with colleagues from the Institute for Metal Research in Shenyang, China.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...roperties.html

[spyder]

Ok, something a little cooler than what I usually end up reading... A jetpack!

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The jetpack, which has taken 30 years to develop, is expected to be commercially available in the next 18 months.
Whizzing around with your own personal jetpack may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin aims to have his "jetski for the skies" on the market within 18 months.

Full write up: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...es-jetski.html

[SAnd]

How about this new tech way of driving someone nuts...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

[spyder]

How about this new tech way of driving someone nuts...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

Those things have been around for years! A couple years ago I bought their christmas tree ornament annoy-a-tron and put it on my brothers christmas tree.