Some provinces have set up their own"Man for Machine"programs aimed at replacing workers with robots.
#Paralyzed man walks again using brain-computer link A brain-to-computer technology that can translate thoughts into leg movements has enabled a man paralyzed from the waist down by a spinal cord injury to become the first such patient to walk without the use of robotics,
which are located largely in areas with low population density. So far, the high cost of domestic offshore wind projects has made them economically unattractive,
and citizen consultation and bring the voice of the ordinary woman and man into the climate negotiations, said Christiana Figueres, Executive secretary of the UNFCCC, on the WWVIEWS on Climate and Energy. any cities,
companies and NGOS are voicing their support for a transformational agreement in Paris. The view of citizens is also crystal clear they see the threats
The latest incredible feat involves a 54 year old Spanish man suffering from a chest wall sarcoma a type of cancerous tumour.
the man needed both his sternum and a portion of his ribcage replaced, something that the doctors and surgeons involved felt was handled best by this new technology.
but it seems women also provide a form of milk for their child while they are still in the womb.
'oxytocin, has long been known to promote bonding between a mother and a child. Now scientists have shown it does this by permanently changing the nerve pathways in the brain that control certain social behaviours.
'The findings could also help scientists develop ways of improving fertility treatments like IVF by ensuing an embryo gets the nutrients it needs during the early weeks of development.
and is tuned better to block out external disturbances, according to Kokoon cofounder and the man behind the concept,
and boldly go where no man has gone before t
#The metal that could lead to'indestructable'warships and ultralight cars Researchers have demonstrated a new type of metal
and waited while a woman in a wheelchair chased a duck with a broom. Google isn't alone in developing self-driving cars.
This'mother'then uses the results to inform the design of the next'child, 'so that preferential traits are passed down from one generation to the next-similar to how natural selection works in animals.
and diversification of the species.'For each robot child, there is a unique'genome'made up of a combination of between one and five different genes,
which contains all of the information about the'child's'shape, construction and motor commands. As in nature, evolution in robots takes place through'mutation,
each child was tested on how far it travelled from its starting position in a given amount of time.
what it touches through a microchip in his brain Scientists working with Darpa have developed a robotic arm that can'feel'It allowed a 28-year-old paralysed man'feel'for the first time in a decade A tiny array of electrodes were implanted into the sensory part of his brain Force
The robotic arm has allowed already a 28-year-old paralysed man to feel someone touching his'hand'for the first time in more than a decade.
It works by using a tiny array of electrodes that have been implanted into the sensory cortex of the man who has only been identified as Nathan.
The geneticists have applied for a unique licence from the Government fertility watchdog to carry out the procedure using a gene manipulation technique called Crispr/Cas9.
and attempted to edit the DNA in 86 on-viablehuman embryos from local fertility clinics.
whether it has been emitted by a man or a woman and even who it belongs to.
The discovery could be used by forensic scientists to place a suspect at a crime scene.
the remote controller has always been a staple of the household. the german startup senic wants to redefine it with uimo a dial interface that employs multiple types of inputs to control most smart home devices and services.
aside from benefitting households, CEO elon musk believes the owerwallwill aid the development of remote communities. he speculates the batteries will help people in emerging markets or remote locations to eapfrogthe need for existing power systems,
That equates to about one episode per child being averted over the course of two years.
and young adults with rare blood disorders Hematology researchers have safely and effectively treated children and young adults for autoimmune blood disorders in a multicenter clinical trial.
About 60 percent of children and adults with T-cell leukemia harbor a Notch mutation. But drugs designed to block Notch have caused serious side effects such as severe diarrhea or skin cancers.
unborn child's face that could prevent him from breathing after birth. Thompson was referred to the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital where doctors had to decide
The median survival rate among adults is just under 15 months, according to the American Brain Cancer Association.
."Although rehabilitation medicine has resulted in reductions in mortality, the current outcome for patients is permanent paralysis, with an overall cost to the community of $2 billion a year."
CVD remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed nations, despite advances in diagnosis and treatment.
safe for treatment-resistant autoimmune blood conditions The immunosuppressant sirolimus is an effective and safe steroid-sparing therapy for children and young adults with highly treatment-resistant autoimmune blood conditions,
and assess male fertility at low cost Scientists have developed a new paper device that analyzes DNA
It also could determine the DNA integrity of sperm--a predictor of fertility--from semen samples as accurately as current clinical methods.
It can support both adult and embryonic stem cells and if it not put inside a living being,
at stake for households in many developing economies are differences adding up to millions of dollars in fees annually."
""This is comparable to an intake 150,000 mg in a 60 kg adult which is 250 times greater than the ADI.""
In one, a woman lounges comfortably on a couch while her smartphone lies cradled on a small shelf attached to a reading lamp in easy reach.
since prehistoric man started forming beds, chairs and cubbyholes out of wood, stone and animal skins.
The app will remind patients to take their medicines (the fictional anecdote used by IBM executives to explain that used a woman who kept forgetting her blood pressure medicine
A new method of creating prosthetic limb sockets has enabled a three-year-old child to be fitted quickly with a prosthetic limb and socket, at a fraction of the normal cost.
and can also harm their fertility. The cervix is the lower part of a woman uterus.
Despite dramatic progress in recent decades, about 12,000 women still develop cervical cancer in the United states each year, and about 4
The molecular switch is described in a paper (et-7 family of microrna is required for maturation and adult-like metabolism in stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
getting them to mature to an adult-like state remains a significant challenge, "said Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Ph d.,University of Washington professor of biochemistry and senior author of the paper."
"Finding an underlying cause for a child's disability is an important undertaking in management,
"Parents want to know why their child has particular challenges. Finding a precise reason opens up multiple vistas related to understanding, specific treatment, prevention and rehabilitation.
This study will provide the impetus to make genetic testing a standard part of the comprehensive assessment of the child with cerebral palsy."
"Finding an underlying cause for a child's disability is an important undertaking in management,"stated Dr. Shevell."
"Parents want to know why their child has particular challenges. Finding a precise reason opens up multiple vistas related to understanding, specific treatment, prevention and rehabilitation.
This study will provide the impetus to make genetic testing a standard part of the comprehensive assessment of the child with cerebral palsy. e
While an average adult residing within a malaria endemic region possesses some immunity to the parasite, pregnancy causes complications that leave women and fetuses extremely vulnerable.
and more discomfort for the child (or adult). That's why researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films have developed an alternative,
no treatment is currently available to preserve the fertility of young, prepubertal boys undergoing gonadotoxic treatments,
Nor is there any solution for the 120,000 adult men who suffer from infertility that cannot be treated using existing technologies.
Make Lifestyle Changes To Remain Healthier In Old age Life expectancy across the world is growing, but the number of those extra years in which wee healthy is not rising at the same rate.
Between 1990 and 2013, life expectancy in the UK increased by 6. 2 years for men to 79.1 years
healthy life expectancy was lower in 2013 than in 1990. Interestingly, this is also the first time that improvements to healthy life expectancy in the developing world (5. 4 years for men
and 6. 4 years for women) are greater than those in the developed world (3. 9 years for men and 2. 8 years for women).
and stupidity of ALM and their members Chances are signed your man up on the world biggest affair site,
#Prosthetic hand lets man actually feel what he touches for the first time Researchers have created a prosthetic hand that people can actually feel through, for the first time ever.
The man was able to accurately report when his finger was being touched 100 per cent of the time,
customized for the current needs of man. With this personalized settings you can control light, temperature,
the FDA released draft regulations that would eliminate the blanket ban on donor blood from any man who has had sex with another man at least once since 1977.
#Paralyzed man walks with help of robotic exoskeleton at UCLA"Good stuff!""Irish motivational speaker Mark Pollock says
"good stuff"doesn't even begin to capture the experience of being"Iron Electrirx Man"in a robotics lab at UCLA. In the early spring of 2014,
In a small trial that recruited sedentary adults who were overweight or obese, study participants who took 500 milligrams of Vitamin c daily saw equal improvement in blood vessel tone key measure of cardiovascular health as did those who took up a three-month regimen of brisk walking five to seven times a week, investigators at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Some 4 in 10 American adults are thought to be entirely sedentary. But the study's invasive measures of"endothelial function"blood vessels'ability to contract
In a pattern typical for overweight and obese adults who don't get much exercise, their blood vessels did not respond to experimental conditions with the strength
and suppleness seen in normal, healthy adults. Their poor vascular tone sets off a cascade of harmful effects,
But the tolerable upper limit for adults of Vitamin c is 2, 000 milligrams. Because it is a water-soluble vitamin
taking a daily 300-mg Vitamin c supplement was associated significantly with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease mortality.
to allow for a child's growth, "Green told Live Science. The 3d printed airway splint, shown here in diagrams of how the device was placed into the patients'lungs.
their life expectancies were estimated at days to weeks, Green said.""It is hard to convey how very sick these children were said,
The first child to receive the device, Kaiba, has reached now this stage, and"he is doing well after degradation of the splint,
"It was scary knowing he was the first child to ever have this procedure, but it was our only choice,
and may have been written by a man named Bar Hebraeus, a polymath who wrote about literature, science, philosophy, religion, history and medicine,
A similar incident occurred at the presidential residence in January. Drones are prohibited from flying in the U s. capital
Researchers have dubbed the bacteria"little Pac-Man, "thanks to its ability to gobble up all of the nicotine in its path.
Ideally, a drug made from the little Pac-Man enzyme would be paired with other tools
When crown-of-thorns starfish population densities are under control, these beautiful creatures play a balanced role in the ecosystem of the Great barrier reef.
#Paralyzed man walks using brainwave system A 26-year-old man who was paralyzed in both legs has regained the ability to walk using a system controlled by his brain waves,
It then used them to send instructions to another device that stimulated the nerves in the man's legs
Paralyzed Man Walks Again with EEG System A paralyzed man, attached to a brainwave system, walks the length of a room with the aid of a harness and walkerpreviously, people have used similar brain-controlled
Before the man could use the system to walk, he first underwent mental training to learn to use his brain waves to control an avatar in virtual reality.
Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.
Entrepreneurs-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship helped them work through mistakes they made regarding legal support, funding,
effectively sticky tape one might find in any household. This tape can adhere to a range of surfaces including cloth uniforms,
The research was dedicated also to the late Professor Seung-Man Yang of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at KAIST.
See fabricated a novel 1mm device (aka Robot Man) made of yellow photonic crystal-enhanced QDS.
Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.
Biomedical engineers are interested in recreating these developmental gradients in adults to aid the growth of new tissue in areas that have sustained damage.
making these products safer for both children and adults.""Using far less polydopamine by weight than typical of conventional flame retardant additives,
and adults use every day, "Ellison said.""We weren't expecting to find a flame retardant in nature,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
and the large number of participants who reflect the general adult population rather than just college students.
Regulates social behaviour Oxytocin has historically been known to play a crucial role in child rearing as it facilitates pregnancy, birth,
#New Technology Enables Completely Paralyzed Man to Voluntarily Move His Legs Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps.
the man was aided by a novel noninvasive spinal stimulation technique that does not require surgery.
me, having spent my whole adult life before breaking my back as an athlete. Even in the years since he lost his sight,
or the size and position of the foetus in a pregnant woman, to mention a few examples.
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals said Monday the FDA approved its drug Spritam for adults and children who suffer from certain types of seizures caused by epilepsy.
Rostami believes her use of the probe helped save a woman life last year. The woman was in intensive care after a stroke involving bleeding on the surface of her brain.
The probe revealed that although the bleeding had stopped, the woman brain glucose levels had fallen, probably caused by other blood vessels constricting.
In response, Rostami team administered a drug to boost her heart rate and send more blood to the brain.
But Rostami believes her use of the probe helped to save a woman life last year.
The woman was in intensive care after a stroke that involved bleeding on the surface of her brain.
the woman brain glucose levels were falling, probably because other blood vessels had constricted. In response, Rostami team administered a drug to boost her heart rate
and within hours the woman condition had improved. he started responding to commands to squeeze my hand,
Hovorka team ran a three-month trial involving 33 adults and 25 children. Compared with a sensor and pump without an algorithm,
The man lost his sternum and pieces of four ribs when doctors removed a large tumor.
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
Engineers at Anatomics in Melbourne, Australia, custom-designed the device using CT SCANS of the man's chest.
The 3-D printing technology allowed the surgeons to create an implant that"fitted like glove"in the man's chest, Dr. Jose Aranda
It our single biggest health problem, affecting the lives of 100 million adults--more than heart disease, cancer,
#Paralyzed Man Becomes First To eelwith Sophisticated Hand Prosthetic A 28-year-old man, paralyzed due to a spinal injury,
British scientists working at the Francis Crick Institute in London announced today that they have applied for permission from the United kingdom's fertility regulator (the UK Human Fertilization
of today households, says Katabi, ireless technologies like this will help power the homes of the future. o
of today households, says Katabi, ireless technologies like this will help power the homes of the future. i
which doctors use to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults. Importantly, the patients also said they enjoyed the game
and all-cause mortality among different subpopulations of treated and untreated patients. The study used the largest cohort of patients and the longest follow-up for TRT to date.
there has been growing concern regarding its effect on mortality, as well as conflicting results. Our aim was to address the knowledge gap."
normalization of testosterone levels using TRT is associated with lower mortality, fewer MIS, and strokes. This is the first study to demonstrate that significant benefit is observed
and when that happens they are found in the affected child but not found in either parent.
when they occur in a child and give rise to autism, usually don't remain in the gene pool for more than one generation before they are,
"Another patient benefiting from the nerve-transfer technique is a 72-year-old right-handed man who had the surgery two years after he suffered a cervical spinal cord injury.
and then plugged it into a working nerve that restored the man's ability to flex his thumb and index finger.
which affect young adults who could live with the side-effects for decades.""Professor Robert Huddart, Professor of Urological Cancer at The Institute of Cancer Research, London,
by 2025 less than 13 percent of American adults would be smokers. A pretty amazing result, especially when you consider that as recently as 1965 42 percent of the adult population smoked.
Hispanic adults are less likely to be smokers (10.4 percent) than non-Hispanic black (19.1 percent) and non-Hispanic white (17.1 percent) adults.
#US government develops mind-controlled prosthetic arm with the sense of touch The US defence force announced last week that it has given a paralysed man the ability to'feel'physical sensations through a prosthetic robotic hand that been connected directly to his brain.
the man was able to identify when and which of his prosthetic fingers was being touched gently by an object-and all while blindfolded.
Paralysed man walks again via brain waves rerouted to his legs A paraplegic man who was paralysed for five years has walked again on his own two feet,
The anonymous man, who experiences complete paralysis in both legs due to a severe spinal cord injury (SCI), is the first such patient to demonstrate that brain-controlled overground walking after paraplegia due to
The mental training consisted of the man wearing an EEG cap that would read his brain waves as he was being instructed to think about walking.
This progressed to the man using his thoughts to control the walking of a virtual reality avatar,
The man first practised walking while suspended in the air, before finally standing on his own two feet again,
Older adults and Alzheimer's patients who are carrying a specific variant of the IL1RAP gene were found to have higher rates of amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain,
bacterial population densities and drug resistance,"said lead author, Professor Beardmore.""As we demonstrate, it is possible to reduce bacterial load to zero at dosages that are said usually to be sub lethal and,
have discovered the likely cause of a child's rare type of severe muscle weakness. The child was one of six cases in
which TGEN sequenced --or decoded--the genes of patients with Neuromuscular Disease (NMD) and was then able to identify the genetic source,
or likely genetic source, of each child's symptoms, according to a study published April 8 in the journal Molecular genetics & Genomic medicine."
or mutation, in the CACNA1S gene for a child with severe muscle weakness in addition to ophthalmoplegia,
In still another case, TGEN testing identified the genetic culprit of the child's muscle weakness as a pathogenic EMD variant associated with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
"Reporting these cases raises awareness about how often each child with muscle disease is unique,
The disease is the most common chronic neurological disorder among young adults, and results from aberrant immune cells destroying the protective coating, called myelin, around nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
that were obtained from local fertility clinics. However the work is very controversial, with some warning it could be the start of a slippery slope towards designer babies.
#Percentage of Texans without health insurance drops dramatically The report found that from September 2013 to March 2015, the percentage of uninsured adult Texans ages 18-64 dropped from 25 to 17 percent."
and age groups, including younger adults.""Despite this improvement, Texas remains the state with the highest percentage of people without health insurance,
since 2013 primarily because the ACA Marketplace allows households above the federal poverty level to buy health insurance using subsidies.
The Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) is a quarterly survey of adults ages 18-64 that began in 2013.
The comparison involved the normal and tumor genomes from 43 children and adults with brain tumors, leukemia, melanoma and the pediatric eye tumor retinoblastoma."
"In this study of the tumor and normal genomes of 43 patients, CONSERTING identified copy number alterations in children with 100 times greater precision and 10 times greater precision in adults."
The team discovered that the gene coding for the MOCOS (Molybdenum Cofactor Sulfurase) enzyme was expressed under in stem cells from nine out of eleven of the ASD adults studied.
See fabricated a novel 1mm device (aka Robot Man) made of yellow photonic crystal-enhanced QDS.
and find the man's illness has a genetic cause, such as dilated cardiomyopathy, we now have both a cause and a diagnosis,
The study found that patients who received the device had significantly lower mortality than heart valve patients who underwent open-heart surgery.
Arrayin 2004, professor Petter Strømme examined a child with congenital cataract, growth delay and symptoms from the brain, the peripheral nervous system,
#Completely paralyzed man voluntarily moves his legs, scientists report A 39-year-old man who had had been paralyzed completely for four years was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles
In addition to the robotic device, the man was aided by a novel noninvasive spinal stimulation technique that does not require surgery.
me, having spent my whole adult life before breaking my back as an athlete.""Even in the years since he lost his sight,
mortality due to disease can be prevented by manipulating characteristics of the host t
#Super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics Washington state University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking.
#New molecule found to prevent preterm birth Premature births are linked intimately with inflammation of the uterine tissue, a biological response
The research team is looking forward for tests to be able in a near future that will be able to predict the preterm delivery risk of a woman,
which increases morbidity and mortality of cancer patients. Currently, there is no approved treatment for muscle wasting
Patricia A. Martin-Deleon, a reproductive biologist at the University of Delaware, has witnessed this behavior many times in her studies of fertility in mice, the closest genetic model to humans (and with a much faster reproductive cycle.
The research, supported by the National institutes of health-National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Delaware INBRE program, is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
disappointing reality that they can't have a child of their own. Even when the process works, a high sperm-to-egg ratio is required, the opposite of
"That gives us hope they can be used as vehicles for improving fertility and the chances of producing healthy embryos and offspring."
"The findings are particularly significant in the light of improving life expectancies and the associated increase in cases of ARMD.
or the size and position of the fetus in a pregnant woman, to mention a few examples.
a man in the prime years of his life suffering from debilitating heart failure and a former NFL athlete crippled by end-stage heart failure were treated all successfully with a surgical approach pioneered by cardiac experts at University of California, San diego School of medicine.
and increases mortality.""Pretorius said biventricular support is required for up to 30 percent of LVAD recipients.
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