#India's Largest Bank Commits $12. 5 Billion For Renewable energy Funding Private sector project developers in India rapidly growing renewable energy would be happy to have the backing of the country largest bank
and will travel all around town neighborhoods, shopping centers, medical complexes, recreation areas, etc. They can seat 16,
while it is kept at a consistent warmth of 101.5°F (38°C). The three-plus weeks the manure is kept at that temperature is to guarantee any pathogens would be killed off,
and could turn Google maps into platform for mapping environmental air quality against public health standards. Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
or exceeds public health standards. While EPA monitoring network is designed to inform air quality regulation, it was unable to provide street-level air measurements until now. nvironmental air quality is an issue that affects everyone,
We may be able to replicate magnetoception by way of an implant or external sensor--such as a new device developed by a team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Solid State
living in culture, these cells are not suitable for hair transplants, since they lost their ability to induce follicle formation.
#3d printed model heart helps doctors save a little girl's life We've seen several accounts of 3d printing being used to save the lives of patients
Cardiovascular surgeons at Miami Children's Hospital turned to 3d printing to print out a scale replica of a 4-year-old girl's heart
so they could plan for a complicated surgery to save the girl's life. She suffers from a congenital condition called anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC)
After a few band-aid surgeries that proved to be temporary fixes doctors knew they needed to come up with a solution.
Using the 3d printed model the doctors were able to plan a surgery that hadn't been performed before using parts from a donor heart
and she's recovering in the hospital. The story recalls a couple of other similar cases such as one at Morgan stanley Children's Hospital of New york-Presbyterian where last year doctors also practiced a complex heart surgery on a 3d model before operating on a baby
. 3d printing adds another element in caring for extremely complex conditions where surgical intervention is thought not typically possible pediatric cardiologist Nancy Dobrolet said in a release.
In Adanelie's case the 3d model provided us with way to create a surgical option for her survival.
It's another example of the miracles 3d printing is bringing to health care and if it isn't enough to give you all of the feels we don't know what will.
A physician holds the 3d model of a young girl's heart as he explains the operation to save her life.
#Lab-grown human muscle is a medical breakthrough The new kind of lab-grown muscle will allow the study of disease
"One of our goals is to use this method to provide personalised medicine to patients,
"We can take a biopsy from each patient, grow many new muscles to use as test samples
"The team is already working towards this goal--as well as towards growing the muscle tissue, not from a biopsy,
"There are a some diseases, like Duchenne Muscular dystrophy for example, that make taking muscle biopsies difficult. If we could grow working, testable muscles from induced pluripotent stem cells,
we could take one skin or blood sample and never have to bother the patient again,
#Flexible implant shows promise for paralysed humans EPFL/Alain Herzog Last year researchers at the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne Switzerland successfully demonstrated a system that allowed completely paralysed rats to walk again.
The technology is now one step closer to clinical human trials with a flexible implant specifically designed to integrate with the patient's spine minimising the risk of rejection and further damage.
The implant called e-Dura is designed to be implanted directly onto the brain or spinal cord underneath the dura mater the membrane that encloses the brain and spinal cord.
This is in direct contrast to surface implants. These are rigid which causes frictional inflammation on the surrounding tissues when implanted long-term.
The team at EPFL has tested the implant in rats and has found that even after two months there was no tissue damage
This has demonstrated that the implant is both capable of performing its function and compatible with long-term implantation.
Our e-Dura implant can remain for a long period of time on the spinal cord or the cortex precisely because it has the same mechanical properties as the dura mater itself said study co-author and EPFL Bertarelli Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology Stphanie Lacour.
This opens up new therapeutic possibilities for patients suffering from neurological trauma or disorders particularly individuals who have become paralysed following spinal cord injury.
EPFL The flexible silicon implant is covered in cracked gold conduction tracks that stretch with the silicon
while the electrodes a new composite made of silicon and platinum microbeads can be pulled in any direction.
Meanwhile a fluidic microchannel in the implant delivers neurotransmitting drugs to reanimate the nerve cells beneath the injured tissue.
The human trials may start as early as June of this year at a special facility called the called the Gait Platform housed in the University Hospital of Lausanne Switzerland.
#New martinsulin Patch Could Change Everything For Diabetics A new martinsulin patch could do away with painful injections
and revolutionize the way diabetics keep their blood sugar levels in check. For people affected by diabetes,
monitoring and regulating insulin levels can be a tedious and dangerous task. I remember my own grandmother,
a type II diabetic, would have a sugary snack on her at all times in case her blood sugar levels suddenly dropped,
but looking back now I see how her quality of life was compromised by one of today most shockingly prevalent diseases.
showed promising results in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. Researchers hope to see similar success in subsequent clinical trials in humans. he whole system can be personalized to account for a diabetic weight
and sensitivity to insulin, said co-senior author Zhen Gu in a statement, o we could make the smart patch even smarter.
researchers suggest the patch can have a longer-lasting effect in diabetic patients. The patch emulates beta cells
sending insulin into the bloodstream. he hard part of diabetes care is not the insulin shots,
A gastric pacemaker is an implant that is surgically placed in the stomach and wired to the vagus nerve.
or who aren't suitable for more drastic gastric bypass surgery. They are not currently available on the NHS.
#Mutebutton can train your brain to ignore tinnitus By Roger Dobson for the Daily mail Published:
23:02 GMT, 18 may 2015 A new device that stimulates the tongue may be a new way to tackle tinnitus.
Clinical trial results suggest it can reduce tinnitus loudness by an average of about 40 per cent.
Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the ear usually a ringing noise, although it can be pitched a high whistling or buzzing, ringing, or hissing.
although in some cases it is linked to hearing loss-one theory is that when some sounds can no longer be heard,
There is no cure although treatments such as maskers (ear-plugs that generate white noise to try to block out tinnitus noise), antidepressants,
and cognitive behavioural therapy, which aims to help patients to ignore or think differently about their tinnitus,
can help. However, the Mutebutton is designed to gradually re-train the brain (via the nerves in the tongue)
in order to reduce the loudness of tinnitus. The stimulator is held between the lips and creates a mild current to stimulate nerves in sync with the sound played through the earphones.
Each device is configured to the patient according to hearing tests with an audiologist. The idea is that the brain gradually begins to play down the illusory sounds of tinnitus
which is not related to the stimulation being felt on the tongue and the real sound being played into the headphones.
In a trial at the National University of Ireland, the system was tested on 60 people who'd had tinnitus for longer than six months.
The patients used the device for 30 minutes a day for ten weeks in the comfort of their own home or another relaxing environment of their choice.
Tinnitus volume reduced by 42 per cent on average. The Mutebutton is likely to be available in the UK later this year.
senior audiologist at charity Action On Hearing loss, says:''We welcome all new research, as the mechanisms behind this debilitating condition are still not fully understood
'More evidence is needed on the effectiveness of this device before it can offer real hope to the millions of tinnitus sufferers across the UK.'
'Meanwhile, researchers have identified now the areas of the brain thought to be involved in tinnitus-with the hope that this new understanding could trigger new treatments.
Scientists at Newcastle University and the University of Iowa, in the U s.,have shown that more areas of the brain are involved in tinnitus than just the sound centre-the auditory cortex-which was thought previously to be responsible.
Using electrical implants to record the brain activity of a 50-year-old man they mapped the areas
which lit up during times of loud and quiet tinnitus. Their findings might explain why the condition can be difficult to treat,
as current therapies typically focus on the auditory cortex
#Artefacts destroyed by ISIS restored in 3d models by'cyber archaeology'Picturesque towers and artefacts covered in engravings are among the ancient treasures that have recently been destroyed by ISIS militants, and earthquakes.
the technology can also be used in real-world applications, such in medicine, education, virtual tourism and for conferences.
enabling people with physical disabilities to play the piano, as we demonstrated with our Eye Play the Piano project.'
for use in medical research. he technology will leverage Organovo proprietary Novogen Bioprinting Platform and Lreal expertise in skin engineering to develop 3d printed skin tissue for product evaluation and other areas of advanced research,
donated by plastic surgery patients. Adam Friedmann, a consultant dermatologist at the Harley Street dermatology clinic, told the BBC:
think the science behind it-using 3d printing methods with human cells-sounds plausible. can understand why you would do it for severe burns or trauma but
#The HEADPHONES that detect brain damage: Pioneering device tracks changes in pressure caused by injury and infection Doctors have developed a brain pressure test using a special set of headphones that can detect life-threatening head injuries and infections.
The technique involves a patient wearing the headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer.
This enables doctors to measure fluid pressure in the skull-known as intracranial pressure (ICP)- without the need for surgery or painful spinal procedures.
The device is currently being used by Southampton General Hospital. In particular, the pressure tests measure fluid via a channel that links the inner ear with the brain.
As fluids in the ear and brain are connected a change in pressure in the brain is reflected by a corresponding change in the ear
when the brain swells as a result of an injury or infection and prevents blood flow, depriving the brain of the oxygen it needs to function.
The headphones are set to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as meningitis and head trauma injuries
it is also being adapted by Nasa to analyse brain pressure levels in astronauts to help tackle space-related visual problems and sickness.
And doctors said they believe it could be used to distinguish between head injuries and post traumatic stress disorder in soldiers returning from combat zones.'
'We know that high pressure inside the skull resulting from injuries and infections can be fatal,
so it is essential it is detected as early as possible to avoid exacerbating symptoms and ensure treatment can begin promptly'explained Dr Robert Marchbanks, a consultant clinical scientist.'
'Current methods for testing ICP require procedures to be carried out under sedation or anaesthetic, which means they are limited to the most severe cases
They then hope to rollout CCFP acorss the health service'in the near future.'
#Bionic lens could give you SUPER SIGHT: Implant promises vision three times better than 20/20-and won't deteriorate over time From glasses to standard lenses
and even lasers, there are many ways people can restore or correct their vision. But the latest so-called'bionic'lens promises to not only restore sight,
And surgery to insert the lens takes just eight minutes, with sight being restored in seconds.
He explained that surgery to implant the lens into the patient's eye takes eight minutes
'And he continued it was'as painless and gentle'as cataract surgery. Visual acuity-or the ability to see fine spatial details-is measured typically with a Snellen chart used by optometrists globally.
The chart displays letters that get progressively smaller in size. The benchmark, and vision that is considered healthy and'normal,
Legal blindness is categorised as 20/200. On the opposite scale, 20/15 offers enhanced vision.
The lens-glasses combination was designed to help restore the sight of people suffering from age-related macular degeneration, or blindness.
to implants that could give you the self-healing powers of Wolverine, researchers are putting these sci-fi notions within our grasp.
In particular, they were designed to restore the sight of people suffering from age-related macular degeneration, or blindness.
And researchers in the US are working on an implant that would make this useful superhuman ability to heal a reality.
the implant would use electric impulses to monitor the health of the body organs. If it spots that an organ is infected,
The idea behind the implant is based on the body natural monitoring system known as neuromodulation. In the body peripheral nervous system, neuromodulation monitors the status of organs and manages how they respond to disease.
But, when a person is injured sick or, this process can be weakened and doesn work as well as it should.
it can cause people to become more ill as the body fails to fight the infection.
The implant being proposed by Darpa would give this natural process a boost, and prevent it from going wrong.
Current medical neuromodulation devices are large and difficult to implant, but Darpa's implant would be small enough to target precise nerve endings m
#Iris scanners can identify you in REFLECTIONS: Minority report-style tech can be used up to 40ft away Biometric technologies are on the rise.
and public anxiety around having such sensitive data captured, stored, and accessed. We have researched this area by presenting people with potential future scenarios that involved biometrics.
sex trafficking and the spread of diseases. According to Nasa, scientists could also use it to search for images and data from spacecraft.
#Flawed science triggers U-turn on cholesterol fears For decades they have been blacklisted as foods to avoid, the cause of deadly thickening of the arteries, heart disease and strokes.
since the 1970s a warning that has divided long the medical establishment. A growing number of experts have been arguing there is no link between high cholesterol in food and dangerous levels of the fatty substance in the blood.
The U-turn, based on a report by the committee, will undo almost 40 years of public health warnings about eating food laden with cholesterol.
US cardiologist Dr Steven Nissen, of the Cleveland Clinic, said:''It's the right decision.
'Doctors are now shifting away from warnings about cholesterol and saturated fat and focusing concern on sugar as the biggest dietary threat.
'London-based cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, science director of campaign Group action On Sugar, wrote in The british Medical Journal that it was time to'bust the myth of the role of saturated fat in heart disease'.
'He added that the food industry had contributed effectively to heart disease by lowering saturated fat levels in food and replacing it with sugar.
and saturated fat in food to heart disease were tinged with scandal'.
#NSA testing smartphones that can tell who you are by the way you write: Handwriting recongition system The NSA is set to begin using smartphone software that can recognise a person by the way they write.
The research from Massachusetts General Hospital in the US could lead to amputees growing their own replacement limbs.
Dr Daniel Weiss, an organ regeneration expert at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, said:'
'Researcher Dr Harald Ott of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery said:''We are focusing on the forearm and hand.'
'The 60,000 Britons who have lost a limb due to illness, accident or warfare have a choice of prosthetic replacements,
or in some cases, transplants. But, while prosthetic technology is advancing, the limbs still have limited a range of movement and look unnatural.
-which weaken the immune system to prevent the rejection of a transplant-for life. In contrast, a lab-grown arm or leg should look
Bernhard Jank/Ott Laboratory/Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicinedr Ott has created now dozens of such limbs
Exploding cells captured on film for first time-shedding light on how our immune system works A key component of the body defence against disease has been captured on film for the first time.
If a disease or infection causes white blood cells to die, they can then warn others nearby to mount an immune response.
'It could be that we've identified the mechanics of how dying white blood cells go about alerting neighbouring cells to the presence of disease
or infection. lternatively we may have discovered the transportation mechanism for a virus to infect other parts of the body.
could now help scientists develop new ways of harnessing the power of the immune system to fight off disease.
#Medical cannabis DOESN'T ease pain, nausea, vomiting, sleep disorders or Tourette's By Lizzie Parry for Mailonline Published:
Medicinal cannabis has been legalised in 23 US states as a therapy to treat disease or alleviate symptoms,
500 volunteers, found the evidence supporting the use of medical cannabis is weak. It found moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids-chemical compounds that are the active principles in marijuana-for the treatment of chronic pain.
And weaker evidence still that the drug eased nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, sleep disorders,
and Tourette syndrome. Dr Penny Whiting, from the University of Bristol, and her team evaluated the evidence for benefits and adverse events, related to medicinal cannabis use.
Researchers found most studies they examined suggested cannabinoid use was associated with an improvement in symptoms.
Moderate-quality findings suggest that cannabinoids may be beneficial for the treatment of chronic neuropathic or cancer pain,
and muscle contractions due to multiple sclerosis. But researchers discovered weak evidence that medical marijuana was associated with improvements in nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy
weight gain in HIV, sleep disorders and Tourette syndrome. And there was very-low quality evidence the drug eased anxiety.
In addition, Dr Whiting and her team found weak evidence to support the claim that medicinal cannabis has no effect on psychosis,
and very little evidence in defence of the idea it had no effect on depression.
Meanwhile, the drug was linked with several adverse effects. Notably, cannabinoids were found to cause dizziness, dry mouth, nausea, fatigue, euphoria, vomiting, disorientation, drowsiness, confusion, a loss of balance and hallucination.
The study authors said:''Further large, robust, randomised clinical trials are needed to confirm the effects of cannabinoids, particularly on weight gain in patients with HIV/AIDS, depression, sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, glaucoma,
and Tourette syndrome are required.''Further studies evaluating cannabis itself are required also because there is very little evidence on the effects and adverse effects of cannabis.'
'In an editorial linked to the study, Dr Deepak Cyril and Dr Mohini Ranganathan, of Yale university, said:'
a cough-suppressant that may also fight cancer, as well as improved plant strains with higher yields of morphine.
The collaboration between the University of Leicester and Medical center revealed how a neuron in the brain instantly fired differently
'The scientists hope that understanding how this type of memory is formed could someday help patients suffering from certain neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease e
'says Dr. Barbara Sherman, a clinical professor of behavioural medicine. Much of the technology comes off the shelf
'We're also very interested in addressing stress in working dogs, such as guide dogs for the blind,'sayssean Mealin,
and mitigate stress for the dogs, improving the length and quality of a dog's life,
and trained not to display signs of stress in their behavior.''In addition to disaster response research, the research team has done already work that uses the platform to assist in dog training.
and improving the physiological sensors for use in animal shelters and hospitals.''This platform is an amazing tool,
#Have scientists found a cure for deafness? Gene therapy that restores hearing in mice could be used on humans in just five years By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail. com and Reuters Published:
01:22 GMT, 9 july 2015 Gene therapy to treat hereditary human deafness could be available within five years.
Research revealed today shows the revolutionary technique is capable of fixing faulty DNA to let genetic deaf mice hear again.
Separately, a similar Novartis gene therapy trial is under way to help restore hearing in people who have become deaf through damage or disease.
The latest study found that mice with genetic hearing loss could sense noises after receiving healthy copies of their faulty genes.
Scientists say the mice mutated genes are similar to those responsible for some hereditary human deafness
The technique has had positive clinical results recently in conditions ranging from blood diseases to blindness.''We are somewhat late in the auditory field but
'said Tobias Moser of the University Medical center Gottingen, Germany, who was involved not in the new research.'
In the case of deafness, this involves injecting a gene-carrying engineered virus into the inner ear.
There are currently no approved disease-modifying treatments for disabling hearing loss, which affects some 360 million people,
while cochlear implants turn sounds into electrical signals for the brain to decode, but these devices can't fully replicate natural hearing.
Much of the hearing loss in older people is noise-induced or age-related but at least half of deafness that occurs before a baby learns to speak is caused by defects in one of more than 70 individual genes.
It is these infants Swiss and U s. researchers hope to help, after showing that replacing a mutated gene improved the function of hair cells of the inner ear and partially restored hearing in deaf mice.
Scientists from The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne and the Boston Children's Hospital, tested hearing in newborn mutant mice by seeing how high they jumped
when startled by a noise. The team focused on a gene called TMC1 which is a common cause of human genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases.
They injected viruses containing healthy genes into an engineered virus called adeno-associated virus 1,
or AAV1, This virus infected the hair cells in ears of deaf baby mice, giving them working genes.
Scientists say other forms of hereditary deafness could also be fixed using the same strategy. Work at Novartis is advanced more,
disease or exposure to certain drugs, including some antibiotics. But it will not help the one to three babies per 1
000 born with severe genetic hearing loss in both ears.''There are a big range of deafness types needing different approaches,
'said Moser
#Behold the PENTAQUARK! Large hadron collider discovers new particle that has eluded scientists since the 1960s A new particle called the pentaquark has been discovered by scientists at the Large hadron collider (LHC).
ran at a low'injection'energy of 450 giga-electron volts (Gev) when it restarted, but its power has now been increased to a record-breaking 13 tera-electron volts (Tev)- up from 7 Tev at the time it managed to detect the Higgs boson in 2013.
beating heart-and say it could revolutionise medicine. The new hearts will allow new drugs to be tested,
who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco.'
'This technology could help us quickly screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects, and guide decisions about
a drug known to cause severe birth defects. They found that at normal therapeutic doses, the drug led to abnormal development of microchambers, including decreased size,
problems with muscle contraction and lower beat rates compared with heart tissue that had not been exposed to thalidomide.'
The most commonly reported birth defects involve the heart, and the potential for generating cardiac defects is of utmost concern in determining drug safety during pregnancy.'
cells along the edge experienced greater mechanical stress and tension, and appeared more like fibroblasts,
which is an imperfect model for human disease
#Lexus builds car with human HEARTBEAT in connection between driver and vehicle Lexus has built a car that pulsates with light in time with the driver's heartbeat in order to display the connection between the driver and the car.
#UK scientists invent BIONIC EYE to save Ray Flynn's sight A revolutionary bionic eye implant has restored the sight of a British Man ray Flynn, 80, from Audenshaw,
Surgeons at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital implanted a chip at the back of Mr Flynn eye in a four-hour procedure last month.
Surgeons will now insert the Argus II retinal implant into more patients over the coming months to demonstrate that it can work for a variety of patients.
000 people in Britain, 85 per cent of them with the dry form of the disease.
Professor Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, said: r Flynn progress is truly remarkable.
and his brain now needs to get use to interpreting it. he Argus II retinal implant was used previously on 130 patients with the rare eye disease retinitis pigmentosa.
developed by US firm Second sight Medical Products, might be used for patients with other vision problems.
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