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Robotic Snake May One Day Wrap Around Rod of Asclepius

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2008-04-04 08:11:25 by Michael in Medgadget
...Technion University in Israel has produced a miniaturized robotic probe that may one day replace traditional laparoscopic devices. The system is being developed by a spin off startup Cardiorobotics , Inc. The CardioArm is operated using a computer and a joystick. It has 102 degrees of freedom, three of which can be activated at once. This...
 
Tags: university, technion university, researchers, principal researchers, marco zenati, carnegie mellon university, cmu researchers hope, zenati, cmu
 
 
 
 
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Scientists inscribe entire Bible onto pinhead

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2007-12-24 00:28:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...Technion institute in Haifa were able to etch some 300,000 words onto a minuscule silicon surface "less than half the size of a grain of sugar." The feat was accomplished by "blasting tiny particles called gallium ions at an object that then rebounded, causing an etching affect," and was reportedly done in order to show that copious...
 
Tags: minuscule silicon surface, grain, tiny particles, hot stuff, sixty minutes, technion institute, nanotechnology experts, entire, image courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Designing Icosahedral Nanovehicles

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2007-12-24 08:56:49 by Michael in Medgadget
...Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, to create icosahedral capsid-like particles for drug or biomolecule delivery, etc. The scientists' research, reported in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. , demonstrated the feasibility of self-assembly of such icosahedral particles from molecules developed from symmetric pentagonal components Read: Artificial...
 
Tags: icosahedral, icosahedral capsid-like particles, particles, viral icosahedral capsids, icosahedral particles, scripps research institute, self-assembly, research, viral capsid self-assembly
 
 
 
 
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EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger [Roundups]

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2008-01-02 19:11:41 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
...Technion in Israel . About a half-mile in height and nearly half as wide, Zaslavskyís tower will be able to rid the world of greenhouses gases, and produce clean energy and fresh water all at the same time. Piece of cake, right TreeHugger's EcoModo column appears every Tuesday in Gizmodo
 
Tags: energy, produce clean energy, energy efficiency, invention, energy tower invention, gadgets, gadgets greener, energy tower, design
 
 
 
 
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Ins and Outs

2008-01-25 08:00:48 by Michael in Medgadget
 
...Technion turns goldfish into Parkinson's model ... [Jerusalem Post Nucleus demonstrates its independence ... [Riken Research Hadasit, Harvard Medical School, Hadassah Medical Organization and Brigham and Women's Hospital Collaborate for the First Time in a New Joint Venture to Develop a New Orally Administered Therapy for Autoimmune...
 
Tags: scientific research, boston scientific comments, research, boston scientific, elsevier, elsevier acquires edra, cell research, withdrawal, fda requires drugmakers
 
 
 
 
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New Chinese apartment tower incorporates trellised hydroponic gardens for each unit

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2008-02-29 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
Designed by architects David Knafo and Tagit Klimor of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, it's going up in Wuhan, China Each unit in the apartment tower comes with its own 100-square-foot trellised hydroponic garden expected to yield "... a significant amount of organic vegetables year-round for a family of four
 
Tags: apartment tower, architects david knafo, organic vegetables, hydroponic, tagit klimor, unit, technion-israel institute, significant amount, wuhan
 
 
 
 
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Sunhope - Solar Balloons for anytime anywhere power

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2008-04-11 08:12:30 by HASH0x8b9a05c in Newlaunches.com
...Technion aerospace engineer Dr. Pini Gurfil to develop an array of helium-filled platforms constructed from a new fabric coated with photovoltaic solar cells. Dubbed Sunhope, the project is showing great promise as a low-cost deployable system that would harness solar energy while maintaining a minuscule environmental footprint. These solar...
 
Tags: solar balloons, balloons, cost, low-cost deployable system, energy, harness solar energy, gurfil, cory, joseph cory
 
 
 
 
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Gardens in the sky Episode 2: Though it may be an American fantasy, it's a Chinese reality

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2008-07-16 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, it's going up in Wuhan, China Each unit in the apartment tower comes with its own 100-square-foot trellised hydroponic garden, expected to yield "... a significant amount of organic vegetables year-round for a family of four Here's a link to a slide show of hypothetical green buildings; it...
 
Tags: chinese apartment tower, apartment tower, hydroponic, mighty grey lady, crack research team, article, hydroponic gardens, times article, architects david knafo
 
 
 
 
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Israeli students design batsuit for flight

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2008-09-10 02:39:29 by Conner Flynn in SlipperyBrick
...Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a winged flight-suit very similar to Batmans outfit. The suit could allow humans dropped from airplanes to glide on their own just like the Dark Knight. First they estimated the size of the wings and tail needed for stability and how strong they would have to be to stand up to the drag...
 
Tags: superman position, superman, drag, suit, flight-suit, super fit pilot, drag forces, blue pajamas, impossible due
 
 
 
 
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Israeli students design batsuit for flight

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