From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 05:00:14 PST
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>New optical recording technique can
>see millisecond nerve impulses
>KurzweilAI.net Feb. 16, 2004
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>High-resolution images of
>millisecond-by-millisecond signaling
>through nerve cells is now possible
>by combining the bright laser light
>of multiphoton microscopy with
>specially developed dyes and a
>phenomenon called second-harmonic
>generation, say biophysicists at
>Cornell University and Université...
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>Muscle building gene therapy might
>build super athletes, scientist
>warns
>AP Feb. 16, 2004
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>Gene injections in rats can double
>muscle strength and speed,
>researchers have found, raising
>concerns that the virtually
>undetectable technology could be
>used illegally to build super
>athletes. University of Pennsylvania
>laboratory studies show that
>injecting into muscles a manipulated
>virus...
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>From Space, a New View of Doomsday
>New York Times Feb. 17, 2004
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>Recent astronomical measurements,
>scientists say, cannot rule out the
>possibility that in a few billion
>years a mysterious force permeating
>space-time will be strong enough to
>blow everything apart. The "The Big
>Rip" is only one of a constellation
>of doomsday possibilities resulting
>from the...
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>Doctors need to get wired
>Nature Science Update Feb. 17, 2004
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>Around 100,000 deaths each year in
>US hospitals are thought to be due
>to medical error. But up to 60% of
>them might be avoided if doctors had
>access to a national computerized
>information system in which doctors
>could immediately call up a
>patient's healthcare history, says
>medical information...
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