Author: Lala Trute

New Ultra-Sensitive Blood Test Detects Even Traces of Cancer

Scientists from Stanford University have developed a new blood test, that could be a game changer for doctors to monitor and detect early stage cancers.  The paper published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, describes how the cancer test referred to as a single color digital PCR only needs very small blood draw sample.  The highly sensitive test can detect at least three mutation-bearing molecules in a single reaction. The blood test is designed in such a way that it can be customized, so it recognizes mutations unique to individual cancers. The current blood tests available for doctors to monitor their patients...

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Scientists Send Wireless Data at 100 Times Current Speeds

The annual run rate for global IP traffic was 1.2 ZB (Zettabytes) in 2016, with PCs accounting for 46 percent of total IP traffic. Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next 5 year, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent over that time. Today most wireless networks use microwaves to carry signals wirelessly and only operate at max speeds of 1/2 a gigabyte per second.  So with demand outpacing capacity new wi-fi technologies are needed. Now in what could soon be breakthrough technology a team at Brown University via sent video data using...

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New Smart Window Technology That Goes Transparent to Dark in Under 60 Seconds

With the world facing an impending energy crisis, researchers have been working on new low-power-consuming technologies. Studies show that around 2% of all the energy used in the US is “taken” by residential windows. So developing cutting-edge technologies like smart windows, that allow consumers to block either all light or just some will potentially save billions of dollars on heating, cooling and lighting costs. Existing smart window products are made of materials, such as thermotropic and photochromic technology, that change color but tend to be expensive, and take a long time to change shades. Stanford University engineers have recently...

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Trial Grafting Transplant Surgery Restores Movement and Feeling in Limbs

The UK’s Daily Mail Online has a really interesting story though lacking a few vital details about breakthrough surgery to restore movement and feeling in limbs for those that have been paralyzed by a severed nerve.  The procedure starts with taking sections of nerve cells from deceased donors.  The nerve cells are treated with enzymes to clean them up, sterilized and frozen, reducing the risk that they will be rejected when grafted to the patient.  The surgery itself is described like it is outpatient with one small incision and no general anesthesia. Without this new procedure, doctors had to perform much...

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is Real and Detectable Via New Blood Test

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), sometimes known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is a disease characterized by extreme exhaustion, achiness, brain fog and difficulties sleeping among other symptoms that are exasperated by physical activity. More than 1 million people in the United States are estimated to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, with three out of every four patients being women. Doctors have struggled for decades to know how to diagnose or treat the symptoms adequately and there is no known cure. There has even been controversy about whether CFS is even a legitimate separate disease and the added frustration that doctors...

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