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Harvard and Myspace to Form Internet Safety Force

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2008-02-29 06:24:08 by Editor in BizToolbelt
...Harvard GSAS was hacked a few weeks before it's weird to find out that Myspace and Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet Security have created a new "task force" to protect children from online plunders and to improve online safety tools. Others organizations to be interested in the partnership are Google, Microsoft, Facebook and...
 
Tags: internet, internet users, experience, myspace, safer online experience, internet security, harvard law school, berkman center, task force
 
 
 
 
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What's lost in the war against illegal immigrants

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2008-05-13 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Harvard Q. Where did you grow up A. Mexicali. My father had a small gas station. The familys stability vanished when there was a devaluation of the Mexican peso in the 1980s. My father lost the gas station, and we had no money for food. For a while, I sold hot dogs on the corner to help As the economic crisis deepened, there seemed no...
 
Tags: brain, patients brain, brain tumor operations, brain stem cells, brain surgery, brain tumors, tumors, harvard, harvard medical school
 
 
 
 
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New MRI Approach for Lung Imaging

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2008-04-17 08:09:02 by Michael in Medgadget
...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging have developed an open access, low magnetic field MRI that focuses on inhaled helium From the MIT Technology Review : Lung function is dependent on the orientation of the body, but it hasn't been possible to study this before because conventional MRI...
 
Tags: mri, traditional mri systems, conventional mri requires, mri system, unlike conventional mri, conventional mri, harvard system, align protons inside, low quality images
 
 
 
 
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DNA Sequencing Technology from Oxford Nanopore

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2008-08-22 20:06:37 by Michael in Medgadget
...Harvard to help advance the company's sequencing methods for DNAs and other molecules. This is not the first time we are reporting about the efforts to commercialize nanopore channels as DNA sequencing sites, since scientists have known for a while now about the ability of these channels to interact with translocating molecules, and "report"...
 
Tags: oxford nanopore, nanopore, oxford nanopore technologies, dna, individual dna bases, dna bases, method, nanopore method, technology
 
 
 
 
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Relax: No One is Reading Your Mind

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2008-01-04 08:29:27 by Michael in Medgadget
...Harvard, a college in Massachusetts, were trying to randomize a medical study so God wouldn't know . Now a group of venerable academic psychologists under Dr. Stephen Kosslyn from the same institution reports developing a methodology to study extrasensory perception (ESP), and obtaining the "strongest evidence" yet against the existence of...
 
Tags: esp stimuli, stimuli, visual stimuli, stimuli precognitively, precognitively, stimuli clairvoyantly, clairvoyantly, non-esp stimuli, study offers scientists
 
 
 
 
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MRI Used to Watch Brain Repair

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2008-03-31 22:48:08 by Michael in Medgadget
Harvard researchers have developed a method to monitor tissue repair within the brain using MRI and some nifty eye drops. In this report, Harvard researchers describe how they link a relatively common MRI probe (superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles) to a short DNA sequence that binds to proteins in cells responsible for brain tissue repair...
 
Tags: brain, brain repair activity, repair brain, brain tissue repair, traumatic brain injury, researchers, harvard researchers describe, blood-brain barrier, mri
 
 
 
 
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Clawed Frog Carries a Concealed Weapon

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2008-07-04 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Harvard who studies frogs, knew there was something different about the specimen he encountered one day while doing fieldwork in Cameroon. Not surprisingly, it kicked its hind legs wildly when he picked it up. But then Dr. Blackburn noticed that his arm had been clawed. I got a real nasty scratch, he said A frog with claws? Back at Harvard,...
 
Tags: frog, keratinous claws, claws, claws frequently, nodule, distal bony nodule, erectile claws, frogs, african frogs
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Force Cells to Self-Assemble into Tissue-like Stuctures

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2008-07-17 08:00:01 by Michael in Medgadget
...Harvard and MIT to develop a technique for motivating cells to self-assemble into structures that resemble normal tissues. The research may one day lead toward practical methods of growing replacement organs specifically engineered for individual patients From MIT Tech Review : [Ali Khademhosseini, a bioengineer at Harvard Medical School...
 
Tags: cells, polymer blocks, polymer, mit tech review, mit, blocks, self-assemble, mit technology review, cells self-assemble
 
 
 
 
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Researchers clear up TV watching for visually impaired

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2008-01-16 16:02:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...Harvard Medical School is lookin' out for said sect, and has developed a method for "enhancing the contrast of images of people and objects of interest on their digital televisions," which, during trials, was found to enhance legibility and overall enjoyment when watching. Furthermore, the technology is said to be the first to play nice with...
 
Tags: harvard, images, harvard medical school, digital tv images, peli, eli peli, smart reruns, digital televisions, analog devices
 
 
 
 
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Facebooks new fixer

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