Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

Apr 22, 2013 11:23 PM EDT

How to Keep Your Sequenced Genome Securely Stored in the Cloud

Sequencing the genome of patients is rapidly becoming a standard procedure since the cost is falling drastically and the possibilities rise at the same time. This development raises important questions about who may interprete these data and how their secure storage can be guaranteed.

Apr 22, 2013 12:54 PM EDT

Wearable Medical Sensor Chips are Now Ready to Use and Comfortable

Researchers developed a tiny, paper-thin skin patch that collects vital data of the wearing patients. These kind of sensors will be an important element in the future digitalized and automated health care system, gaining the ability to react preemptively and in a personalized way

Apr 22, 2013 09:34 AM EDT

New Antares Rocket Test Launch Successful

On sunny Sunday, April 21, the first Antares rocket test launch was successful. Lift-off took place at 5:00 p.m. (EDT) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia, followed by payload separation approximately 10 minutes later and miss...

Apr 20, 2013 11:00 PM EDT

Workshop Construction for Largest Components of ITER Fusion Reactor Begins

At the vast construction site of the world's largest experimental fusion reactor ITER in Southern France--which will be one of the largest and most complex machines ever built--another facility will now be built for the on site fabrication of huge components that are too large for transport since th...

Apr 20, 2013 02:16 AM EDT

3D Immersion Technology Now Helps Fighting Migraine (Video)

Full 3D immersion is applied to a growing number of scientific applications, and one of them is now visualizing special brain scans of patients. The 3D brain is a novel way to examine data from images taken during a patient's actual migraine attack, says DaSilva, who heads the Headache and Orofacial...

Apr 19, 2013 09:06 PM EDT

Artificial Sphincter Under Development Will be Adaptive Implant

Researchers at the University of Basel are developing an adaptive implant that would be able to contract and relax like a natural muscle.

Apr 19, 2013 05:17 PM EDT

New Computational Optimized Touchscreen Layout Maximizes Typing Speed on Mobile Devices

A new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices has been created by a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the University of St Andrews, and Montana Tech.

Apr 19, 2013 12:15 PM EDT

Data Highway for Fusion Research Expands Global Collaboration

GÉANT is supplying a 10 Gbps link to connect Helios supercomputer with scientists involved in ITER and DEMO

Apr 19, 2013 12:29 AM EDT

Gold Nanoparticles Mess With Certain Cells, Accelerate Aging

New research reveals that pure gold nanoparticles found in everyday items such as personal care products, as well as drug delivery, MRI contrast agents and solar cells can inhibit adipose (fat) storage and lead to accelerated aging and wrinkling, slowed wound healing and the onset of diabetes.

Apr 18, 2013 08:59 PM EDT

Smallest Earth-Like Exoplanets Found Orbiting in Habitable Zones

The two smallest exoplanets yet found in the habitable zone of a star system, and thus with the potential to be similar to Earth, were identified using the Kepler Space Telescope.

Apr 18, 2013 04:27 PM EDT

Simple Trick to Grow Stem Cells From Mature Cells Discovered, Important for Therapies

The current difficulty of growing large batches of stems cells from mature cells in patients to be used in advanced therapies could be solved in a quite simple way by blocking a single protein, researchers say.

Apr 17, 2013 11:07 PM EDT

Largest Binary Star in the Universe Identified

Possibly the most massive binary star ever discovered, astronomers have observed an exemplary that potentially weighed 300 to 400 solar masses at birth. The present day total mass of the two stars is between 200 and 300 times that of the Sun, depending on its evolutionary stage, which would still ma...