Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a condiment-sized pouch for enhancing the shelf-life of drugs like Nevirapine, an anti-HIV medication. An improvement over currently-used storage systems like syringes and containers, the pouch reduces evaporation loss while remaining potent at various temperatures.
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Novel Pouch Could Reduce Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
UnitedHealthcare has announced that it will begin providing at-home screening kits to its customers, which will allow patients to determine their risk of heart disease and diabetes without visiting a laboratory. The kits, made by BioIQ , will require patients to extract a blood sample and mail it in to a lab, which will then analyze the levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood glucose in the sample. Following analysis, the test results and some health recommendations are made available to the patient via a secure website.
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UnitedHealthcare Brings Preventative Medicine Into the Patient’s Home With New Diagnostic Kits
Scientists at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have developed a simple technique to transform sheets of cells grown in a lab into 3-dimensional shapes. Called “micro-masonry”, the new method uses a gel-like material to organize cells into cubes, which can then be fashioned into structures resembling organs. As the artificial organs are built, small channels can be left in place to provide nutrient access.
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Building Artificial Tissues with Biological Legos
But do obedient humans live longer? A team led by Vincent Careau, a PhD student at University of Sherbrooke, gathered data on many aspects of dog biology published in disparate fields of study such as psychology, longevity, and veterinary research. The information was well known in the respective research domains, yet they were never put together.
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Obedient Dog Breeds Live Longer
In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a thorough look into the use of grids in web design; a summary of things to know when building theme for Tumblr; a sleek website design tutorial; and two awesome roundups of ultra cool infographics. Design Informer This well designed article from Design Informer takes an in depth look at the topic of grid-based web design, beginning with a historical introduction, and continuing on to some handy tips for using a grid as part of your designs.
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This Week’s Favourites – May 14th 2010
I just installed TPTP into my Eclipse 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.04 and tried to profile a class. The Profile Configuration opened with a red warning reading “the launch requires at least one data collector to be selected“.
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Eclipse Profile Configuration: The Launch Requires at Least One Data Collector
Also in today’s links: which Twitter celebs did people want to follow them, Facebook privacy, what’s inside Apple’s A4 processor, USAF’s PlayStation problem, and When did Apple become uncool? Dell Unveils AMD Six-Core PC – Information Week “The Dell Studio XPS 7100 is available as of Wednesday with AMD’s Phenom II X6 six-core processor.” You can also have 16GB of memory, 4TB of disk and a real 64-bit operating system, Windows 7
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The Technology newsbucket: 6-core Dell desktop, BlackBerry tablet, Nokia’s woes, Adobe founders v Apple, and more
This week Cedric Beust, a Senior Android Software Engineer, and Erick Tseng, the Android Senior Product Manager, left Google to join LinkedIn and Facebook (respectively). It’s surprising that two leaders of the Android team left Google in the same week for social networking jobs, and you’ve got to wonder what caused them to leave Google? Was it Google, the money offered by Facebook and…
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Daily Dose – Major Leaders Leave Android
Lately Facebook has been all over the news regarding security and privacy issues. Today Facebook replied, by announcing some new tools, settings, and measures to allow users to better protect their logons. In his blog, Facebook’s Lev Popov describes the new settings and features in nice detail.
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Facebook Strengthens Logon Security
By Edith Honan and Ilaina Jonas
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-13 22:54 Conde Nast in talks to move to 1 World Trade Center
May 13 (Bloomberg) — Condé Nast Publications Inc. is in talks to become the biggest tenant at 1 World Trade Center, the skyscraper now rising at the lower Manhattan site where the twin towers were destroyed, a person familiar with the talks said.
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Conde Nast Said to Weigh Move to New Yorks World Trade Center
Media giant Conde Nast has been in talks to relocate to One World Trade Center, the skyscraper being built by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port on the site of the twin towers destroyed on September 11, 2001, a source familiar with the discussions said.
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Conde Nast in talks to move to 1 World Trade Center
Samsung Group has just announced that it will invest $21 billion dollars into clean energy technology in the next decade–particularly into solar cells, rechargeable batteries for hybrid cars, and energy-saving light emitting diode (LED) technologies.
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Samsung Announces Plans for $21 Billion Clean Tech Investment
It’s not everyday that renowned audio company Tivoli introduces a new product to its lineup, so yesterday was a major event. The company introduced the Model 10, a stunning desktop radio. The Model 10 combines the elegant, minimal styling that Tivoli is known for with the most attractive digital display the company has put out yet
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Tivoli Intros Model 10 Radio
Sprint will require any user that purchases an HTC Evo 4G to pay $10 extra a month for 4G access–whether or not you live in a 4G-enabled city. A single user with the Everything Data plan for 3G-enabled phones runs $70 a month, so with the additional $10 that comes to $80-per-month minimum. There will be no data cap for plan
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Sprint Evo 4G Plan Will Require $10-Per-Month Premium
In a blog post Wednesday, teardown specialist iFixit said it had confirmed that the new, unreleased Apple iPhone includes the iPad’s A4 processor. The discovery comes from pictures posted by teardown pictures from Taoviet, which obtained the new iPhone and published video and pictures to the Web on Wednesday.
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iFixit Confirms New iPhone Has iPad’s A4 Chip
The decade-old, open source ‘database for objects’ has managed to stay speedy and relevant in its old age. As it reaches version 8.0 with a developer release this week, db4o is getting significant performance upgrades – in fact, they’re the theme of this release. db4o is an embeddable object database for Java and .NET. It’s developed and supported by Versant.
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db4o 8 Looks Great
Every year, TED is simulcast to an intimate gathering of doers and thinkers in Palm Springs called TEDActive . Here, attendees watch the all the talks from the TED mainstage as they happen and attend workshops, activities and social events driven by their needs. This year, several of TED’s most prolific translators became an integral part of this community , inspiring everyone with their incredible dedication to providing TEDTalks to everyone in the world in as many languages as possible.
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In the OTP’s first year: The translators at TEDActive
Larry Ellison’s Oracle is busy absorbing Sun Microsystems with the aim of becoming big in hardware, as well as software. And he has a few trenchant things to say about the failings of the previous regime… Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison doesn’t talk to the press as often as we’d like, because he often ends up putting the boot into some company, product or person, and that’s always entertaining.
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Larry Ellison starts to reign over Sun
In a bid to increase the reach of its 4G network, Verizon Wireless is in talks with rural phone companies to lease access to its wireless spectrum, according to The Wall Street Journal . The Journal said that move is somewhat odd since wireless companies typically guard access to pricey and scarce spectrum, but CEO Lowell McAdam reportedly said that the move will help the company’s 4G deployment
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Report: Verizon In Talks to License 4G Spectrum