According to Christopher Voigt, a synthetic biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, where we combine a bit of brewer’s yeast with a gene from a salt marsh plant and grow a little-known bacterium found in a French site, so we have a cheap and to drive our cars rolling.

In theory, biofuels derived from plants can be a neutral source of energy, but many of them moving to food crops.Manufactured from cellulose-a structural material in abundant crop residues and grass, can solve this problem,but there is little effective processes for doing so. (more…)

Women who have created the ass too big and too small chest could soon have an option to invert the equation. Fat cells are extracted from adipose tissue, then filtered using technology developed by Cytori Therapeutics, in order to increase the proportion of adipose stem cells and, finally, are injected into the breast. So far, the treatment, which is marketed in collaboration with GE Healthcare, has been used only in women who have lost a breast due to cancer, but they are about to begin tests with healthy women in the UK. (more…)

According to an article published on April 19, 2007 in the online version of The Guardian, now that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have released their new consoles on the market is revealed and commented on something: to chart the next-generation games are incredible, but the game mode, ie the underlying technology is the same as 10 years ago.

According to them, artificial intelligence (AI) is a potential for discovery that could revolutionize the games of any genre. (more…)

A British engineer invented a machine to make rain in London British engineer and professor at the University of Edinburgh, Stephen Salter, famous in the United Kingdom for their achievements in the seventies in the tidal field of technology, believes that his new invention: the “machinery of the rain, a sprinkler giant transforming sea water into steam, natural evaporation and facilitate the formation of rain, according to British magazine “New Scientist.”The device adapts the design of an existing air turbine, the Darrieus, similar to a blender of food for three and a half meters tall and with two propellers that rotate on a vertical axis.These propellers collect seawater and launched, pulverized, ten meters above sea level.According to Salter, that facilitate the natural evaporation process, since water vapor spray break the resistance of a layer of moist air and static is usually on the sea. (more…)

According to an article published on April 24, 2007 a group of U.S. scientists has paved the way towards developing a “bionic eye”, using electrodes to stimulate an area of the brain that processes visual information.

The results in monkeys, which were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, increases the chances that people with diseases such as glaucoma regain sight one day with a prosthetic eye. (more…)

According to an article published this month in Technology Review, a chip designed to mimic the functioning of the brain could help to understand our cognitive abilities.

Usually, the transistors of a computer chip are arranged for maximum processing speed, but this chip was developed in the laboratory of Kwabena Boahen, University of Stanford, includes groups of tiny transistors designed to mimic the electrical properties of neurons. The transistors are arranged to behave like cells of the retina, the cochlea, or the hippocampus, a part of the brain that sorts and stores information.Their work is based on anatomical diagrams of different parts of the brain developed over the years by neuroscientists around the world through conscientious animal studies.It is hoped that these models of the brain lead to new discoveries that would be difficult to reach with existing experimental techniques. (more…)