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The most advanced methods of mass production employ harmful antibiotics and genetically modified feed in unnaturally crowded ponds on land.

Rather than being noxious sumps of filth and disease, these sewage plants are popular visitor attractions, odourless greenhouses with the look and feel of a botanical garden (such as Koh Phi Phi Don in Thailand).

Software can then be used to remove the points above the ground, according to University of Alabama archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak,

and adapted for use to store everything from milk, fruit and certain medicines. In Ghana, for example, a modified design allows the mama mboga oe ladies who run market stalls oe to display her fruit

However, Noah died two days later of an infection unrelated to the cloning process. And like the guar, other attempts to clone endangered species through somatic cell nuclear transfer tended to be one-offs.

They are impervious to cancer and do not feel pain from acids. To endow ordinary lab mice with these traits Church will try to partially rewrite the genomes of mouse stem cells.

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lower disease resistance, stunt growth and even cause blindness, which greatly increases a person's risk of death in the developing world.

fear that this genetically modified strain could contaminate and harm other vital rice strains. But rather than importing genes from another organism

researchers are now trying to find maize strains that naturally produce high levels of beta-carotene.

and their collaborators screened around 300 maize strains, and unearthed some with boosted beta-carotene levels.

Combining all that and more gives farmers precise information about variety in plant health, size and even nitrogen needs.

and avoid environmental harm by not adding unnecessary fertiliser or water, Khosla says.""But with precise input management, farmers can also influence grain yield and efficiency.

and places in the story a description of the Mayfair neighborhood in London where the protagonists live or a history of the Black death plague,

opening up a literary trove for the blind and the visually impaired who have had long only a thin selection of audio

Dr. Gary Small, director of the Center on Aging at UCLA and author of oeibrain, said Internet use activated more parts of the brain than reading a book did.

#Shifting Trend in Luxury Purchases Buying Top Technology and Investing in a Lifestyle Experience The new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health

who at 56, is semiretired following a heart attack two years ago. oebut cooking healthy food is a big priority.

such as the Hundleys, the new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health

On weekends, the federal government physician from Albuquerque likes to do yard work and prune the fruit trees he has in his backyard.

Several experimental vertical farming projects like Dr. Dickson Despommiers at Columbia University are in various conceptual and experimental stages of implementation.

This diagnosis, though alarming, was hardly unique: drawing attention to the divide between the wealthy

which he has spent billions of dollars on issues as diverse as marijuana legalization, civil society in central and Eastern europe,

and intellect today to his foundation s work on causes ranging from supporting charter schools to combating disease in Africa.

Andrew The Man Who Dies Rich Dies Disgraced#Carnegie transformed himself from robber baron to secular saint with his hospitals, concert halls, libraries, and university;

impairment and fatigue all contribute to road accidents. Driverless cars will remove the human variable from the system.

Look for wait-less systems to spring to life in doctor offices, auto service shops, pharmacies, Disneyland,

The Self-Health Movement No one cares more about your health than you do. So it was only a matter of time until someone invented the self-diagnostic tools, self-monitoring devices,

Apple s App store currently offers 9, 000 mobile health apps, along with 1, 500 cardio fitness apps, over 1, 300 diet apps, more than 1, 000 stress and relaxation apps,

and over 650 women s health apps. But apps are only part of the equation. Peripheral devices are setting the stage for the true self-revolution:

All Apples stores now carry the Withings Blood pressure monitor, a peripheral device that plugs into the ipad,

iphone or ipod Touch and takes the user s blood pressure. Data can be sent directly to a doctor or saved (confidentially) to the cloud.

Lifelens has created a smartphone app to diagnose malaria. The app can magnify a drop of blood (captured via a simple finger prick)

and identify whether malarial parasites are present. In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.

Also in October 2011 AT&T announced it will begin selling clothes embedded with health monitors,

able to track the wearer s vital signs heart rate and body temperature and upload them to a dedicated website.

The X Prize Foundation is cosponsoring a $10 million prize for the best mobile device allowing consumers to diagnose their own diseases.

#Similarly, whenever a column is written about the best paying jobs of the future, jobs like civil engineers, registered nurses,

Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require a different kind of health care professionals to take care of them.

Nano-Medics The medical problems most people have can be traced to a single cell or a small group of them.

Health professionals capable of working on the nano-level, both in designing diagnostics systems, remedies, and monitoring solutions will be in high demand. 23.

Hospital and Healthcare Dismantlers More details here. 29. Income tax System Dismantlers-More details here and here. 30.

Memory Augmentation Therapists Entertainment is all about the great memories it creates. Creating a better grade of memories can dramatically change who we are

Amnesia Surgeons Doctors who are skilled in removing bad memories or destructive behavior. 55. Executioners for Virus-Builders In the future, virus-builders who get caught will have a choice.

or spend some quality time with the Amnesia Surgeon. Final Thoughts The jobs and occupations listed above are just scratching the surface.

and nutrition your body demanded to stay in optimal health? What if it were possible to first print the can

and our physical health. In fact, food touches virtually everything we do, yet we are cooking less

and electronics to monitor disease and dispense drugs. Such devices may eventually be able to measure the level of cholesterol or alcohol in your blood and flash up an appropriate warning.

By adding tiny light-emitting elements to contact lenses it is becoming possible to map digital images directly onto the wearer s field of vision to create a heads-up display

a spin-off from The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne, is powered a wirelessly contact lens designed to help people with glaucoma manage their treatment.

and Drug Administration to identify the source of an outbreak of foodborne illness, trace its path

The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of food-borne illness a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.

said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry and adopting it to the food business.

But according to a 2009 investigation by the Department of health and Human Servicess inspector general, most food facilities surveyed did not meet those requirements

The need for better traceability became clear after a national outbreak of salmonella illness in spring 2008 that sickened more than 1, 300 people across the country.

Initially, investigators at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified tomatoes as the culprit

as opposed to a bunch of pixels#it can accelerate the whole process of analysis. That in turn will make the parsing of things like medical images and traffic video much faster.

and detect changes that indicate a health condition before it gets too serious for example. 3. Hearing the whole story

It s conceivable that your doctor would be able to diagnose you remotely based on that information

This technology could also sniff out minuscule amounts of environmental toxins before they hit critical mass,

which could have broad public health ramifications. And then there s just the quality of life aspect. You can paint chemical sensors on a surface

There are lots of tele-radiology options and doctors can even perform surgery remotely. IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.

Meyerson admits to some less successful calls#especially one about hydrogen-powered vehicles#but he s pretty happy overall with IBM s effort.

and update medical records across different computer systems. They brought in Mr. Miller s father, Rod, a former I b m. sales manager, as chief executive.

Echobase markets its service to medical records software providers and hospitals, whose doctors download the app free.

to manage one million animals gives me a headache.##The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists

but also create new stress and insecurity. The giant facility where he works distributes dry goods for Kroger supermarkets.

there are fewer injuries, said Rome Aloise, a Teamsters vice president in Northern California. Because a computer sets the pace,

the stress is now more psychological. Mr. Graves wears headsets and is instructed by a computerized voice on where to go in the warehouse to gather or store products.

Even if you had a doctor document some medical condition, if you didn t come to work,

and a half weeks with severe bronchitis and was on the verge of dismissal when he e-mailed Ron Johnson, then the retail chief,

I m a low stress kind of person to begin with and I didn t find it unmanageable,

Sales employees, Mr. Garcia and others noted, deal with stresses all their own. Though commissions are offered not,

when stress-related health issues sidelined him long enough to put his job at risk.

you re done. 6. The Congestion Killer Traffic jams can form out of the simplest things.

which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.

but within a few years, it ll tip paramedics off to probable injuries too. E. M. T s would know the likelihood of internal bleeding or traumatic head injury, for example,

before arriving on the scene, which would help them decide whether to move you to A level 1 trauma center or a standard emergency room.

Researchers at the University of Michigan International Center for Automotive Medicine have created the predictive models by cross-referencing the crash data provided by sensors on cars, like speed and location of impact, with 3-D

scans of accident victims. 11. A Nice Little Cabin in the Sky The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert,

The swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard had to completely reimagine the seat design to handle the stress caused by the differently distributed weight. 20.

it s called#that would forever eliminate the next morning s headache (not to mention other problems associated with drinking.

a psychiatrist and former British drug czar, has identified six compounds similar to benzodiazepines#a broad class of psychoactive drugs#that won t get you rip-roaring drunk

all you d have to do is pop a pill. 21. The Mind-reading Shopping cart In February,

when it detects bacteria associated with plaque buildup, cavities or infection. It could also notify your dentist,

adding an extra layer of social pressure to make an appointment. The sensor may have wide-ranging use:

the researchers have used already it to identify bacteria in saliva associated with stomach ulcers and cancers.

could be the key to diagnosing diseases early and assessing overall health. This tech,#says Dr. Philip Low, the founder of a medical technology firm called Neurovigil

even though there may be no obvious symptoms.##Thus far, Low s device has found a number of applications:

evaluating children with autism, studying the efficacy of trial-phase drugs and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers.

Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device, which will be the size of a quarter

and will transmit brain scans directly to smartphones and tablet computers. We re using sleep, #Low says,

A Blood test for Depression This year, Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern s Feinberg School of medicine, published a paper that identified molecules in the blood that correlated to major depression in a small group of teenagers.

Part of the reason there s a stigma for mental illness, including depression, is that people think it s only in their heads,

#Blood tests will take mental illness out of the squishy realm of feelings. And as Lonna Williams, C e o. of Ridge Diagnostics, says,

When the spray hits a surface where there are pathogens present, like your bathroom sink, it would bind to the bad stuff

Then you could knock it out with a stronger disinfectant. 27. A New Firefighter You need a lot of water to put out a sizable blaze,

and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers can be toxic (halons, the most effective chemical fire suppressant, create holes in the ozone layer.

According to the program s manager, Dr. Matt Goodman, an electric field destabilizes the flame s underlying structure rather than blanketing the fire to smother it.

or you re in a hospital, or your spouse is allergic to dogs#you can t always have a pet around to improve your mental health.

So researchers at the University of British columbia have created something called smart fur.##It s weird-looking (essentially just a few inches of faux fur)

Sleep Better Researchers at Merck have created a pill called suvorexant that essentially makes you a narcoleptic for a night.

It turns out that might be the best cure for insomnia. Unlike existing sleep aids, the drug (which will likely be reviewed by the F. D. A. later this year) works by turning off wakefulness rather than by inducing sleep.

There s good reason to believe this pill brings on more R. E. M. sleep and better rest,#says Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford university.

It ll be less of a hammer on the brain.##Photo credit: Random Thoughts Via New york times Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati E

#Cow collar texts ranchers when animals are sick or in heat Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device.

A new collar being developed for cattle ranchers could send cow health updates to farmers cellphones.

monitoring the health of their animals and prevent accidental deaths. The Silent Herdsman collar will track the movements of the cow using the same type of sensors found in Wii devices.

Environmental Health News highlights the failed hope of GM crop developers: That these proprietary crops will stay where they are planted

that he finds it ironic that most people who oppose genetic engineering in plant breeding live in rich nations that he believes are responsible for global climate change that will lead to more starvation and malnutrition for the poor.

hunger, disease is no doubt genuine. But, like his absurd statements on climate change and renewable energy,

Part of that delusion is not realizing that for opposition to GM CROPS often doesn t stem from opposition to new technology at all.

and electronics to monitor disease and dispense drugs. Such devices may eventually be able to measure the level of cholesterol or alcohol in your blood and flash up an appropriate warning.

The first iteration of smart contact lenses are already on the market, but were not at CES. 15.)

Gene therapy-Gene therapy is the use of DNA as a pharmaceutical agent to treat disease, with the most common form involving DNA that has been encoded with a functional fix to replace a mutated one.

On the first day of CES, the X-Prize Foundation announced the Qualcomm Tricorder challenge to build a tool capable of capturing key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 different diseases.

The $10 million prize will go to the first person that can create a Star trek-like medical tricorder#.

We will not cure cancer, just yet. And we won t find a solution for war. But there is great value in the struggle.

#and More Inmates, Despite Slight Drop in Crime.##Logically then, if crime keeps falling, we simply won t be able to build prisons fast enough.

At issue was our obsession with solving all of today s problems before we dare think about advancing humanity.

#Similarly, whenever a column is written about the best paying jobs of the future, jobs like civil engineers, registered nurses,

Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require a different kind of health care professionals to take care of them.

these days it is common, thanks to advanced medicine, to live a healthy life well into your 90s and beyond.

because air pollution and congestion are no longer a problem, and most devices are now highly energy efficient.

and medical implants) can be produced for a fraction of their traditional manufacture costs. The true cost of any product is now the amount it takes to download the design schematics.

With the national obesity and diabetes epidemics of the 2010s a distant memory, fastfood chains are a thing of the past.

They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks. They rubberneck, hotdog, and take pity on turtles, cause fender benders, pileups,

no driver fatigue.##From 1977: Engineers huddle around a driverless Ford on a test track.#

and chatted with patients at a nursing home. What he didn t build was driverless cars. Funding for private research in the field had dried up by then.

standing at the starting line in Barstow, half delirious with adrenaline and fatigue, Levandowski forgot to turn on the stability program.

Some convert sugar into medicines. Others create moisturizers that can be used in cosmetics. And still others make biofuel,

Laboratory-grown artemisinin, a key antimalarial drug, went on sale in April with the potential to help stabilize supply issues.

Proponents characterize bio-factories as examples of#oegreen technology#that are sustainable and immune to fickle weather and disease.

Could they tinker with some genes in the yeast to create a biological machine capable of producing medicine?

an ancient herbal remedy found to be more than 90 percent effective at curing those infected with malaria.

pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, has manufactured 35 tons of artemisinin#roughly equivalent to 70 million courses of treatment.

The World health organization gave its stamp of approval to the drug in May, and the pills are being used widely.

Concerns about risks The early scientific breakthroughs by the Amyris founders paved the way for dozens of other companies to do similar work.

000 miles in the U s. Accidents that cause injuries are even rarer, occurring about once every 1. 3 million miles.

in the case of a physically handicapped person, at least one prosthetic device or aid on the steering mechanism at all times when the motor vehicle is in motion.#

should prevent oblivious drivers from causing harm. Self-driving-car boosters talk about a virtuous circle that starts

dynamic lane reversals, micro-tolling to reduce congestion, autonomous-software agents negotiating the travel route with other agents on a moment-to-moment basis

and never get tired. 8. Sunscreen Pills An effective sunscreen that can be administered orally has been sought after for some time now.

One doctor claims that a fern extract, containing the compound polypodium leucotomos, can act as such.

Said Dr. Paul Long head of the three-year project,#oethere would have to be a lot of toxicology tests done first but

I imagine a sunscreen tablet might be developed in five years or so. Nothing like it exists at the moment.#

Queens University director Dr. Roel Vertegaal has largely the same vision of the project.##oethis is the future,

A University of Utah study in November 2012 confirmed that this could be done in a lab. Perfection of this technology could result in the potential end of tooth decay, gum disease, fillings,

and I guess it just turned into obsession, #Oster said.##oehe was getting up in the morning at,

Then the real-estate market crashed about the same time Oster s dad experienced a big health scare.#

This lack of heft translates into lesser stresses and lower costs throughout the system#one-tenth that of high speed rail or a quarter of the cost of a freeway,

Jean Ratner, a therapist who directs the Center for Travel Anxiety in Maryland, says that simulating windows with high-def screens would#oehelp a lot,

#but claustrophobia will be a real problem for some passengers. Even in the closed tube of an airplane, they can get up and go to the bathroom,

930,000 Rehabilitation expenses included costs incurred by USFS emergency rehabilitation programs, Denver water, US Geological Survey (USGS) mapping,

529,614 Special costs recorded were asthma victims, special health cases, and losses to wilderness values.

One reason for the cassava miracle has been the ongoing breeding of improved varieties that are more resistant to disease, pest, and drought.

looking at the variations in the plant s DNA to more quickly identify those strains and traits with the potential to boost yields.

and disease, mature faster, and are lower in cyanide. Now Nigeria is the world s top producer of cassava.

because the Bairds had lost two sons to AIDS#ons who had helped previously to support their parents and sister.

a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.

They found that the original cell from which the clones were derived ultimately often had epigenetic abnormalities.

Any random cell could reasonably be expected to have some epigenetic abnormalities, but when all of the organism s cells are derived from the same cell,

whatever abnormalities that cell has will be magnified. For example, a series of cloned mice were shown to express an RNA molecule that inactivated one of the female s X chromosomes.

The study, led by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan,

or genetically modified animals used in medical research. As the authors note in the study:#

including gene therapy in medicine, the generation of improved agricultural goods, and the engineering of energy-producing microbes,

The biotech revolution that created drugs like EPO for anemia and interferon for multiple sclerosis and crops like Monsanto s Roundup Ready soybeans was based on relatively crude methods for inserting a gene from one organism into another.

For a decade some biologists have been touting a new approach, dubbed synthetic biology, that makes more genetic alterations

and primitive algae has resulted in drug and biofuel companies such as Amyris and LS9. But figuring out how to make changes in the genomes of more complicated organisms has been tough.

and NIH director Francis Collins wrote in a blog post that they are#oerevealing tantalizing new possibilities for treating human diseases#in a blog post.

Horvath recognized that this knowledge could be used to create bacteria that were more resistant to infection,

which would be useful in making yogurt and perhaps in manufacturing drugs. But he was quick to realize something else:

At a scientific conference, she struck up a friendship with Jennifer Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley.

or around a gene that might cause a disease. Right now, it s hard to study them directly.

That could be hugely useful in for instance, developing new drugs. Recently, there was a bit of an internet uproar

Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.

if there are any boundaries that, for safety or health reasons, absolutely cannot be breached, then virtual fencing is not the methodology of choice.

upon the current year s pattern of rainfall, pattern of poisonous weed growth, pattern of endangered species growth,

#whether it be to define ownership or use or even health or safety hazards. Manaugh:

The book dispensaries at available 24/7 and operate like ATM machines with a swipe of a library card to dispense books.

such as the Fairfax Community Library s#oeread To A Dog#Program and the therapy dogs at the Princeton Public library.

The Harriette Person Memorial Library in Mississippi even has Beanie Baby Reading Therapy! The First Regional Library System in Mississippi has online after-school tutoring,

#Telescopes Other services Health and Government Assistance In Florida,#oethe Orange county Library System developed Right Service at the Right Time, a sophisticated database-driven web

#And in Arizona,#oethe Pima County Public library offers on-site expert medical help, making the library the first in the nation to employ a public health nurse on site.

memory kits for those with Alzheimers; and activity kits and games for Activity Directors, including a Karaoke Machine.

The Temecula Public library in California#oehas developed new programming and created a resource center specifically for families with children on the autism spectrum by offering a new, monthly story time especially for two-to five-year-olds

which is equipped with activities that have been proven to be entertaining to children on the autism scale,

For parents of children on the autism scale, the library recently hosted a forum of autism experts who spoke about early identification and intervention of autism spectrum disorders.#

#Library Nurse Program Mangamania!!##The library s annual manga, anime, and graphic novels convention for teens#oecombines hands-on workshops, cultural demonstrations, gaming (open play and tournaments),

Rangeview Library District, CO) Connecticut Health classes, including#oean Intro to Tae kwon do #and#oecolor Your World#Exploring Stress Relief With Paint#(New Milford Public library, New Milford, CT) Stuffed Animal Sleepover (Darien Library, Darien,

CT) Silent Film and accompanied with live piano music (Darien Library, Darien, CT) Florida Jacksonville Public library:#

We invited other libraries and any other organizations that book performers (nursing homes, etc. and each performer had a table afterward where they could schedule shows with people.

Our audience consists of individuals who are retired to adults with developmental disabilities. During the summer months we try to show family related movies

Legopalooza Jedi Training Princess Tea parties Book Discussions Crochet, Knitting, Punch Needle, Cross stitch, Scrapbooking, Spinning (Yarn) classes Diet and Diabetes Classes Yoga

Wheel-throwing classes (pottery) Hypertufa plant container making Soy candle making Adult miniaturist s clinic#sing Dremels,

Libraraoke#karaoke at library Nifty Needlers Stone carving Tie-dying Online shopping Couch to 5k running club Yoga Zumba Qigong Acupuncture Pottery