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GOOD HEALTH: May 19

We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” and the amnesia that sets in when we flush events down the memory hole, leaving us at the mercy of only what we know today. Sometimes, though, the past comes back to haunt, like a ghost. It happened recently when we saw U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida on the news. A Republican and Tea Party favorite, he was asked at a local …

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Joseph McCarthy reborn

CHAPEL HILL, N.C (USA TODAY) – Kristen Powers finishes packing her lunch and opens the kitchen door to leave for high school with her brother, Nate, in tow.

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Genetic testing and disease: Would you want to know?

The long-awaited book, The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 years of Innovation and Enterprise, is published today “celebrating the phenomenal contribution the Cambridge technology cluster has made to the world we live in today”.

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New chapter on our leading lights

In allen Industriezweigen herrscht derzeit eine weitgehend manuelle Fertigung vor. Fr die Luftfahrtindustrie oder auch im Rennsport werden in der Regel nur CFK-Bauteile in Kleinserie aber mit hohen Qualittsanforderungen bentigt. Prof. Axel S. Herrmann, Airbus Operations, ergnzte: In der Luftfahrtindustrie hat sich der Einsatz von Hochleistungsfaserverbunden mittlerweile mit hohen Qualittsstandards etabliert. Die Erfahrungen aus dieser Kleinserien- und Grobauteil-fertigung knnen auch in andere Branchen transferiert werden.

Groserienreife im Fahrzeugbau

Erhebliche Synergien ergeben sich mit dem Automobilbau, da auch im Flugzeugbau – etwa fr die nchsten Single Aisle Flugzeuggenerationen – in der Einzelteilfertigung hnlich hohe Stckzahlen wie im Automobilbau zu fertigen sind. Hochautomatisierte Fertigungsverfahren sind zu entwickeln, um Kosten und Qualitt sicher zu stellen. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, ist ein breit angelegter Wissenstransfer unter allen Netzwerken weltweit notwendig.

Gnzlich anders muss die Composite-Bauteilfertigung ausgelegt sein, wenn zum Beispiel in der Automobilindustrie in Groserie produziert werden soll, betonte Heinrich Timm, Audi AG.Leichtbau ist weit mehr als Verbrauchs- und Emissionsreduzierung. Leichtbau ist auch nachhaltige Ressourcenschonung und Fahrsicherheit. Leichtbau steht deshalb mehr denn je im Focus und beflgelt Konzepte in Materialmischbauweise von Stahl ber Alu bis zu den Faserverbundwerkstoffen. Den besten Werkstoff fr den jeweiligen Funktionsanspruch in kleinstmglicher Menge am richtigen Platz, das ist der Weg zum wirtschaftlichen Leichtbau.

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Composites branchenübergreifend automatisieren

MICHAEL WOSNICK Globe and Mail Update Published Thursday, May. 10, 2012 2:00AM EDT

There are about three billion base pairs of DNA in each of our cells, which collectively provide the genetic blueprint that makes each one of us an individual. If you were to able to read out your own DNA sequence from start to finish, it would take you a lifetime, so enormous is that number of three billion. Yet in 2001, we accomplished the determination of a composite, or reference, human DNA sequence and in 2007, we achieved for the first time the complete sequence determination of a single individual human being.

The ability to sequence whole genomes is advancing rapidly, such that the prospect of personalized or precision medicine is looming the idea that we will treat individuals based on the specific mutations that underlie their particular disease. One might call it the era of personal genomics. For diseases like cancer, researchers around the world are trying to catalogue as many disease-causing mutations as possible. Global efforts like the International Cancer Genome Consortium are devoting millions of dollars and unprecedented amounts of research to this.

Genome scientists have been proven correct in their assertion that the costs will continue to go down dramatically. Indeed, companies are already touting the introduction later this year of automated sequencing machines capable of determining the entire sequence of a complete human genome in less than one day for a cost of less than $1,000.

In other words, it is not out of the question that our own doctors may soon be ordering tests for us that will see the complete determination of our individual genome as part of a diagnostic regimen.

Already there are direct to consumer products that enable you to order your genome from a company on the Internet without any intervention by your physician at all. This will no doubt become more popular as it becomes more affordable.

But even as it advances our understanding of human diseases such as cancer, the era of cheap genomes is ushering in questions of ethics and law that we need to start debating and discussing as a society.

At the top of the list is the issue of privacy and confidentiality.

Where is your genome sequence going to be stored? I could imagine an app on your smartphone in the not-so-distant future. But do we really want to have our genome floating around in cyberspace? Do we trust some central database, perhaps maintained by a government, to house this information? I cannot imagine a piece of information more personal or more confidential than my own detailed DNA sequence. Will I really trust that it will be kept secure on the Internet or in someones file cabinet? Or on a jump drive in my pocket?

This leads us to questions such as insurability. Suppose an individual is carrying a particular mutation that might, and I stress might, predispose them to a particular disease. And suppose that information is made available to an insurance company and coverage is denied because the risk is deemed to be unacceptably high? What happens then?

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As our DNA defines us, science outpaces ethics

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In the twilight, three zebras graze, oblivious of human presence as the moon rises in the horizon. The fading rays of the setting sun set the scene for P. Srinivasan, avid photographer and co-founder of Jeevan Blood Bank.

The photo is among the 71 images on display at the Lalit Kala Academy. Through his images, Dr. Srinivasan offers a glimpse of wildlife in sanctuaries in India, Maasai Mara and Serengeti in Kenya and Ntutu in Tanzania.

Another photograph shows three zebras, their hooves kicking up dust, as they make their way home. The dust reflected the setting sun and that lit up the photograph, said Dr. Srinivasan of his dramatic black and white photos.

I took up photography at the age of 11 but had to give it up later owing to work commitments. I returned to the camera in 2005 and this is my first exhibition, he said. In his second innings, he has set aside a minimum of a week each year to go on holiday, capturing animals and birds in their natural habitat. If you spend 10 days in Africa, you can get good results, he said.

He has taken 35,000 photographs over a period of five years. His most dramatic photograph was inspired by a painting he saw at the exhibition hall when he came to reserve space. The result is the fine piece of art displayed at the hall entrance. The four panels show a group of zebras deep in discussion.

I was trying to capture the group when two zebras in the pond got into a fight and some of them rushed out. The commotion caused the sand to fly and my photo captured it, he said. Needless to say, the photograph was sold the moment it was opened for viewing.

There is also a photo of a kitten peeping out of a hole near his house. Then there is one of a bee-eater spotted on East Coast Road and of course, tigers, cheetahs and lions in all their glory.

The photographs have been printed in large format on archival paper and canvas that have a life of over 99 years. The proceeds from the sale of the photographs will be donated to Jeevan’s Be the Cure’ initiative, which aims to provide quick and affordable or free access to matching stem cells to Indian children with blood cancer and thalassemia.

The exhibition is on for six days until May 6 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Doc turns shutterbug in the wild

When the researchers at Exhale Skincare heard about the recent extraordinary development of an apple stem cell ingredient that would turn the cosmetics industry upside down, they knew people would want to bathe their skin in the protective essence of this amazing apple.(PRWEB) May 01, 2012 Exhale Skincare has built its entire line of cosmetics around this amazing apple, and, even better, kept …

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In February 2007, in his very first presidential campaign visit to New Hampshire, Mitt Romney toured a solar power plant. Unsurprisingly for a politician in such a location, he found some nice things to say about renewable energy. North Andover's Eagle-Tribune reported that Romney promised he would soon “lay out a full energy program” featuring government incentives for developing alternative …

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Romney’s solar flip flop