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Re-Engineering the Immune System
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Ryii3Y_nVpI/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System
destinyland notes a microbiology professor describing "Immunity on Demand" (or "Immunity 2.0") and wonders whether we could genetically engineer all the antibodies we need. "...there's a good chance this system, or something like it, will actually be in place within decades. Caltech scientists have already engineered stem cells into B cells that produce HIV-fighting antibodies — and an NIH researcher engineered T cells that recognize tumors which has already had promising clinical trials again skin cancer. Our best hope may be to cut out the middleman. Rather than merely hoping that the vaccine will indirectly lead to the antibody an individual needs, imagine if we could genetically engineer these antibodies and make them available as needed?"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1833219"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SqkeHM-pAi8qsIwUUf-c7W8P8C8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SqkeHM-pAi8qsIwUUf-c7W8P8C8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/Ryii3Y_nVpI" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-09T20:34:00+00:00biotechimmunity-two-point-ohscience156156,153,120,92,31,16,10http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rssSigns of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/mMNOCkRT8yg/Signs-of-Water-Found-On-Saturnian-Moon-Enceladus
Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/155220/Signs-of-Water-Found-On-Saturnian-Moon-Enceladus?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/155220"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/155220/Signs-of-Water-Found-On-Saturnian-Moon-Enceladus?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/lgHh86-2QNw/Space-Shuttle-Spy-Gets-15-Years
goG writes "A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the US space shuttle with the intent of giving it to China. US District Judge Cormac Carney called Chung's crimes a matter of national security, saying he had committed a breach against the trust Boeing and the country had placed in him. Attorney Greg Staples said, 'The [People's Republic of China] is bent on stealing sensitive information from the United States and shows no sign of relenting. Only strong sentences offer any hope of dissuading others from helping the PRC get that technology.' Staples also 'noted in sentencing papers that Chung amassed a personal wealth of more than $3 million US while betraying his adopted country.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1435230/Space-Shuttle-Spy-Gets-15-Years?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1435230"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1435230/Space-Shuttle-Spy-Gets-15-Years?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/vS0WCdPdTD4/Call-For-Scientific-Research-Code-To-Be-Released
Pentagram writes "Professor Ince, writing in the Guardian, has issued a call for scientists to make the code they use in the course of their research publicly available. He focuses specifically on the topical controversies in climate science, and concludes with the view that researchers who are able but unwilling to release programs they use should not be regarded as scientists. Quoting: 'There is enough evidence for us to regard a lot of scientific software with worry. For example Professor Les Hatton, an international expert in software testing resident in the Universities of Kent and Kingston, carried out an extensive analysis of several million lines of scientific code. He showed that the software had an unacceptably high level of detectable inconsistencies. For example, interface inconsistencies between software modules which pass data from one part of a program to another occurred at the rate of one in every seven interfaces on average in the programming language Fortran, and one in every 37 interfaces in the language C. This is hugely worrying when you realise that just one error — just one — will usually invalidate a computer program. What he also discovered, even more worryingly, is that the accuracy of results declined from six significant figures to one significant figure during the running of programs.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1336250/Call-For-Scientific-Research-Code-To-Be-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1336250"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1336250/Call-For-Scientific-Research-Code-To-Be-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/z6Aa1X1JCUo/Virus-Detecting-Lab-On-a-Chip-Developed-At-BYU
natharward writes "A new development in nano-level diagnostic tests has been applied as a lab on a chip that successfully screened viruses entirely by their size. The chip's traps are size-specific, which means even tiny concentrations of viruses or other particles won't escape detection. For medicine, this development is promising for future lab diagnostics that could detect viruses before symptoms kick in and damage begins, well ahead of when traditional lab tests are able to catch them. Aaron Hawkins, the BYU professor leading the work, says his team is now gearing up to make chips with multiple, progressively smaller slots, so that a single sample can be used to screen for particles of varying sizes. One could fairly simply determine which proteins or viruses are present based on which walls have particles stacked against them. After this is developed, Hawkins says, 'If we decided to make these things in high volume, I think within a year it could be ready.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/2223252/Virus-Detecting-Lab-On-a-Chip-Developed-At-BYU?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/08/2223252"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/2223252/Virus-Detecting-Lab-On-a-Chip-Developed-At-BYU?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/TnJu9wQc0ZQ/Turns-Out-You-Actually-Can-Be-Bored-To-Death
A study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study. Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report said, "The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/1724245/Turns-Out-You-Actually-Can-Be-Bored-To-Death?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/08/1724245"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/1724245/Turns-Out-You-Actually-Can-Be-Bored-To-Death?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/wlMkgvbYxcA/Shuttle-Endeavour-Blasts-Off-For-Space-Station
Gwmaw writes "The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad on Monday on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station. The 4:14 a.m. EST (0914 GMT) blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center shattered the predawn tranquility with a deafening roar and a brilliant tower of flames that momentarily turned the dark Florida sky as bright as day." HD video of launch attached.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/149205/Shuttle-Endeavour-Blasts-Off-For-Space-Station?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/08/149205"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/149205/Shuttle-Endeavour-Blasts-Off-For-Space-Station?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/x3Z8nRKNRII/Statistical-Analysis-of-U-of-Chicago-Graffiti
quaith writes "Quinn Dombrowski, a member of the University of Chicago's central IT staff, has been recording the graffiti left in the Joseph Regenstein Library Since September 2007. To date she has photographed and transcribed over 620 pieces of graffiti; over 410 of them are datable to within a week of their creation. She has now published in Inkling Magazine a statistical analysis of the entire graffiti collection covering such subjects as love, hate, despair, sex, anatomy, and temporal fluctuations of each of these. After November, both love and despair graffiti drop off significantly until spring, while sex graffiti reaches its one and only peak in December before declining for the rest of the school year. The story includes links to all of the original graffiti photos, which the researcher has made freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/2122245/Statistical-Analysis-of-U-of-Chicago-Graffiti?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/07/2122245"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/2122245/Statistical-Analysis-of-U-of-Chicago-Graffiti?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IjTO4xIMBLzRHdOXTWzyYN2RpdM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IjTO4xIMBLzRHdOXTWzyYN2RpdM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/x3Z8nRKNRII" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-08T06:34:00+00:00scienceoff-the-wallscience156156,148,112,97,26,16,9http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/2122245/Statistical-Analysis-of-U-of-Chicago-Graffiti?from=rssPlasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/RQmXLx56sfc/Plasma-Jets-Could-Replace-Dental-Drills
Hugh Pickens writes "The first electric dental drill was patented in 1875; modern drills grind the diseased portions of teeth away at up to 500,000 rpm. But dentists have been seeking less invasive ways of wiping out stubborn, tooth-decaying bacteria. Now Live Science reports that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the drills used to treat cavities in our teeth. Researchers recently demonstrated that a small, blowtorch-like device emitting a relatively cool beam of purple plasma could eliminate oral bacteria in cavities, leaving more tooth structure intact than a drill does. To test how well 'cold' plasma jets (about 100F or 38C) sterilize tooth material, researchers took slices of dentin from extracted human molars, doused them with bacteria, and torched them with the plasma jet. An inspection via a scanning electron microscope of the damage done to the germs shows bacterial remnants had holes in their cell walls. When the plasma jet fires, it charges oxygen in the surrounding air, creating highly reactive molecules that can break down the bacteria's defenses. Researchers believe the technique could be available to general dentistry in three to five years."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0956256/Plasma-Jets-Could-Replace-Dental-Drills?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/07/0956256"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0956256/Plasma-Jets-Could-Replace-Dental-Drills?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/oyHIkb75tP0/19th-Century-Photographer-Captured-5000-Snowflakes
tcd004 writes "Wilson Bentley began photographing snowflakes in 1885, and managed to immortalize more than 5,000 crystals before his death in 1931. Now his images are widely recognized and highly sought after. At the age of 19, 'Snowflake' Bentley jury-rigged a microscope to a bulky bellows camera and took the first-ever photograph of a snowflake. Photography then, particularly microphotography, was much closer to science than art. In a 1910 article published in the journal Technical World, he wrote, 'Here is a gem bestrewn realm of nature possessing the charm of mystery, of the unknown, sure richly to reward the investigator." The video embedded at the link above touches on another long-forgotten piece of history: a sketch of the photographers who captured arial views of assemblages of tens of thousands of soldiers returning from WW-I, carefully choreographed and arranged to form a Liberty Bell, a Stature of Liberty, a US flag... as forgotten as the origin of the WW-I term razzle-dazzle.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0036212/19th-Century-Photographer-Captured-5000-Snowflakes?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/07/0036212"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0036212/19th-Century-Photographer-Captured-5000-Snowflakes?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gKj_7RxTTKVyQqrhnBprZ5Y4Qao/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gKj_7RxTTKVyQqrhnBprZ5Y4Qao/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/oyHIkb75tP0" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-07T04:40:00+00:00graphicsmore-science-than-artscience7777,71,52,32,10,5,4http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0036212/19th-Century-Photographer-Captured-5000-Snowflakes?from=rssInternational Space Station Cupola Video Released
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/gd5BXFwavF4/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released
quaith writes "With the Space Shuttle Endeavour scheduled to launch at 4:39 AM EST on Sunday for a trip to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency has released a video that shows how the modules it's carrying — Node-3 ('Tranquility') and Cupola — are going to get attached. Node-3 is a connecting module. Cupola has six trapezoidal windows and circular roof designed to provide a unique vantage-point for observing Earth. The video animations show how the station's robotic arm will be used initially to put the modules in place as a single unit, and then to detach Cupola from the end of Node-3 and reattach it on the Earth-facing side. With this addition, the ISS will start to look like something that Jules Verne would have wanted to visit."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2332234/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/06/2332234"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2332234/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/_uLjVRRoiSw/Studies-Find-Harm-From-Cellular-and-Wi-Fi-Signals
Over the years we've discussed the possible health risks of cellphone and other microwave radiation: studies from Israel and Sweden indicating a link between cellphone use and cancer, one from England exonerating cell towers as a cause of "microwave radiation sensitivity," and a recent 30-year Swedish study that found no link to cancer. The question won't go away though. Reader Artifice_Eternity writes "I've always tended to dismiss claims of toxicity from cell phone and Wi-Fi signals as reflecting ignorance about microwave radiation. However, this GQ article cites American and European studies going back decades that have found some level of biological harm caused by these signals. Why haven't they gained more attention? Quoting: 'Industry-funded studies seem to reflect the result of corporate strong-arming. Lai reviewed 350 studies and found that about half showed bioeffects from EM radiation emitted by cell phones. But when he took into consideration the funding sources for those 350 studies, the results changed dramatically. Only 25 percent of the studies paid for by the industry showed effects, compared with 75 percent of those studies that were independently funded.'"<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2238247/Studies-Find-Harm-From-Cellular-and-Wi-Fi-Signals?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/06/2238247"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2238247/Studies-Find-Harm-From-Cellular-and-Wi-Fi-Signals?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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theodp writes "With a gushing press release, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra announced the launch of Text4baby, 'an unprecedented mobile health public-private partnership' designed to promote maternal and child health. Expectant women are instructed to 'Enter the date of the first day of your last menstrual period' to start receiving 'timely and expert health information through SMS text messages' until their child reaches the age of 12 months (limited to 3 free messages/week). The White House Blog has more information on the 'historic collaboration between industry, the health community and government.' Separately, the White House announced plans to spend $3,000 on 'Game-Changing' Solutions to Childhood Obesity. Once again, Dilbert proves to be scarily prescient."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0623208/The-New-National-Health-Plan-Is-Texting?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/06/0623208"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0623208/The-New-National-Health-Plan-Is-Texting?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0718206/Israeli-Scientists-Freeze-Water-By-Warming-It?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/06/0718206"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0718206/Israeli-Scientists-Freeze-Water-By-Warming-It?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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MikeChino writes "A physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The technique is based upon prior research that shows it's possible to teleport information from one location to another, and involves making a measurement on each [of] an entangled pair of particles. The measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system, and then by carefully choosing the measurement to do so on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy. Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2239256/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/05/2239256"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2239256/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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