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Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor

The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body. Acoustic waves from music, particularly rap, were found to effectively recharge the pressure sensor. Such a device might ultimately help to treat people stricken with aneurisms or incontinence due to paralysis.

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Wanted: 2011's Top Technologies

Wanted: 2011's Top Technologies

The editors of R&D Magazine have opened the nominations for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards competition, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awards. If your organization introduced a new product this year, or is planning to, you can begin the entry process now.

The fight over fracking

The fight over fracking

Netflix is wonderful for the mailbox. Alongside bills, credit card offers and never ending stream of fat magazines , that familiar red and white envelope holds the promise of an hour or two of mindless entertainment. Inevitably, though, for every

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Scientists spy how mysterious protein handles toxic payload

Scientists spy how mysterious protein handles toxic payload

The function of the protein mitoNEET, an important player in diabetes, cancer and aging, is slowly revealing itself to researchers. At Rice University, a combination of laboratory experiments and computer modeling have show how the protein’s iron-sulfur cluster is involved in the process of apoptosis.

Envelope for an artificial cell

Envelope for an artificial cell

Chemists from the University of California, San Diego and Harvard University have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life.

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