wordpress-seo domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114He watched his brother die from a cancer that no drug could cure. Now one of the world’s most renowned cancer researchers says it’s time for Plan B.
The answers Bert Vogelstein needed and feared were in the blood sample.
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For $12,000, a company grafts a patient’s cancer into rodents and tests drugs on them.
At a laboratory in Baltimore, hairless mice kept in racks of plastic crates are labelled with yellow cards, each identifying a person fighting cancer. These mice are cancer “avatars”—the lumpy tumors visible under their skin come from actual patients.
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Government hackers apparently went to work as Israel and Russia ramped up military action this year.
A study of malware operating on corporate and government networks suggests that the communication patterns of these programs could warn of major conflicts.
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PARC’s technique of mincing chips into printer ink could revolutionize the way electronics are made.
In the same research lab where the ethernet, laser printer, and graphical user interface were born, engineers are forging an entirely new way to assemble electronic devices—a technique that could be faster, cheaper, and more versatile.
A chip that uses a million digital neurons and 256 million synapses may signal the beginning of a new era of more intelligent computers.
A new kind of computer chip, unveiled by IBM today, takes design cues from the wrinkled outer layer of the human brain. Though it is no match for a conventional microprocessor at crunching numbers, the chip consumes significantly less power, and is vastly better suited to processing images, sound, and other sensory data.
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A novel manufacturing method could make it practical to stack solar cells and convert more of the energy in sunlight into electricity.
When experts talk about future solar cells, they usually bring up exotic materials and physical phenomena. In the short term, however, a much simpler approach—stacking different semiconducting materials that collect different frequencies of light—could provide nearly as much of an increase in efficiency as any radical new design. And a new manufacturing technique could soon make this approach practical.
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Efforts to contain Ebola in West Africa suffer from a lack of effective tools to treat and prevent the disease, although several are in development.
As of last week, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa had claimed the lives of 88 percent of the more than 1,000 people who had contracted the virus. While several technologies for controlling the spread of the disease are under development, deploying them will not be straightforward.
A heads-up display could be safer than glancing at your smartphone while driving—but some features may be more distracting than others.
If you own a smartphone, you’ve no doubt been tempted to take a look at a map or see what message just popped up on the screen while you’re behind the wheel of a car.
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The Amazon Fire Phone tries hard to impress, but often ends up just being annoying.
The Amazon Fire is a good smartphone, but not because of all the high-tech new features Amazon is touting. In fact, some of those features are more wearying than truly useful.
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Researchers at IBM are testing a version of Watson designed to listen and contribute to business meetings.
Photocopiers, PCs, and video conferencing rooms all rose from being technological novelties to standard tools of corporate life. Researchers at IBM are experimenting with an idea for another: a room where executives can go to talk over business problems with a version of Watson, the computer system that defeated two Jeopardy! champions on TV in 2012.
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Although smart watches and fitness bands are proliferating on wrists, there could be an even better spot on the body for wearable tech.
If you’re going to choose a place on the body to measure physical signals, Steven LeBoeuf says two places are far and away the best: the ear or the rear.
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The fact that China hasn’t approved of any commercial GMO planting since 2009 reflects public fears.
Despite recent research advances, such as a new strain of wheat that resists destructive mildew (see “Chinese Researchers Stop Wheat Disease with Gene Editing”), commercial planting of genetically modified food crops has stalled in China, the world’s most populous nation and one with a fast-tightening food supply.
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