http://www.netvouz.com/spisio/tag/tech?feed=rss spisio's bookmarks tagged "tech" on Netvouz http://cars.blogs.ca/2006/08/30/2007-lexus-ls-to-debut-new-rear-collision-pre-crash-protection-system/ Wouldn’t it be nice if your car could prepare you for an accident before it happened? A new technology from Toyota can do just that. To be clear, systems already exist for sensing a crash from an oncoming car before it happens, but until now nothing has been created for doing the same thing from behind. A new technology can actually sense rear collisions before they happen, according to Toyota, thanks to a radar device installed into a car’s rear bumper. spisio Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:49:34 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/13/advancis-increases-amoxicillins-effectiveness/ Amoxicillin is a wide spectrum antibiotic used to treat many common infections, including strep throat. The usual prescription for treatment requires three 500mg amoxicillin doses daily. Advancis Pharmaceutical just released positive phase III trial resul spisio Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:08:24 GMT http://cars.blogs.ca/2006/04/20/another-technology-for-reducing-fuel-consumption-cylinder-deactivation/ Cylinder deactivation is one of those “have your cake and eat it too” technologies, which is probably why it is starting to catch on. First introduced by General Motors through its Cadillac division in the early ’80s, it experienced dismal results. spisio Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:38:44 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/10/06/archon-x-prize-for-genomics-announced/ The contestants are challenged with the task of creating a process that can successfully map 100 human genomes in 10 days. No small feat considering that the first human genome to be sequenced took 13 years and cost around $3 billion. spisio Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:41:45 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/15/arthritis-drug-receives-expanded-fda-approval/ The Food and Drug Administration expanded its marketing approval for Remicade on Monday. Remicade is a psoriatic arthritis treatment produced by Centocor that first received FDA approval in May of last year. spisio Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:53:33 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/08/chinese-biotech-company-reveals-positive-results-for-bird-flu-vaccine/ An experimental vaccine developed by Chinese scientists has produced an immune response in healthy people to the H5N1 avian flu virus. Sinovac Biotech Co. Ltd. released early trial results in The Lancet medical journal today. spisio Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:01:56 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/08/chinese-biotech-company-reveals-positive-results-for-bird-flu-vaccine/ An experimental vaccine developed by Chinese scientists has produced an immune response in healthy people to the H5N1 avian flu virus. Sinovac Biotech Co. Ltd. released early trial results in The Lancet medical journal today. spisio Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:05:06 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/28/diagnosis-of-a-virus-with-a-microchip/ A microchip with the ability to rapidly diagnose illness-causing viruses has recently been developed by the University of Colorado and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The FluChip is able to distinguish the type and subtype of 72 infl spisio Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:34:22 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/15/if-you-dont-use-them-you-may-lose-immature-brain-cells/ Its already known that the human brain continues to produce new nerve cells throughout its life, but recent studies show that many of these new cells die before they have a chance to mature. An experiment performed by Fred Gage of the Salk Institute for B spisio Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:08:36 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/09/iran-claims-to-have-cloned-a-sheep/ Even without seeing any visual proof of their accomplishments, my congratulations go out to the Iranian researchers for almost being successful in an experiment that was already carried out a decade ago. spisio Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:23:11 GMT