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    With Robot-Performed Virtual Autopsies, Your Corpse Gets a Stunt Double

    Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery

    Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger

    Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs

    New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!

    Lance Armstrong's 12 Screws and Metal Plate in Collarbone Make Him a Low-Grade Cyborg

    Stitching Wounds Using Lasers

    Proteus Motor Swims Through Bloodstream, Looks Pretty Much Like a Sperm

    Bomb Victim Fitted With Cyborg Arm That Fuses With Her Own Skin and Bone

    Finally, Lasers That Heal Wounds Rather Than Creating Them
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    10/27/09

    In reply to With Robot-Performed Virtual Autopsies, Your Corpse Gets a Stunt Double
    Hannibal Lecter laughs at our new robot overlords and says "Pass me the gyoza sauce!" #virtualautopsyrobot
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/15/09

    In reply to Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery
    I swear, Rosa, you're really starting to piss me off with your writing.

    Why the hell would I want a lightsaber? That's what I hate about you right-wing religious nutjobs.

    I hate to break it to you but the simple truth of the matter is that ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a blaster at your side.

    Not only that, but, given a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers, each carrying a full complement of TIE craft, together with a DEATH STAR (an armored battle station with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet), whiny farmboys, their effete droids, and pederast minders are no match for the might of the GALACTIC EMPIRE.

    You don't frighten me with your blogger ways. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't conjured up any Google's roadmap for 2010 through 2012 or revealed the specs of the Apple Tablet.
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    Image of Blake380 Blake380
    10/15/09

    In reply to Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery
    I know this is off topic, but why does it say 'Contact information for this author is not available.' after every post now? #plasmaknife
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment Blake380 was starred Blake380 was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/15/09

    @Blake380: You'll soon start seeing our email addresses there so that you can torture us further. #plasmaknife
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    10/17/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Can't wait ;-) #plasmaknife
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment Rejexted was starred Rejexted was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/17/09

    @Rejexted: You don't have to wait. Should be up now. :) #plasmaknife
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    10/20/09

    @Rosa Golijan: yippee! #plasmaknife
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    Image of bustedchain bustedchain
    10/15/09

    In reply to Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery
    Minor correction needed: penetrateand is begging for a space in there somewhere.

    Also, neat device. Hope they keep developing it. I'd like a plasma dagger.
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment bustedchain was starred bustedchain was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/15/09

    @bustedchain: Fixed. Thank you. #plasmaknife
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    Image of bustedchain bustedchain
    10/27/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Certainly! Thank you for making corrections! #plasmaknife
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/09/09

    In reply to Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger
    One of the bad parts about cancer treatment is they treat all the cells, hoping to kill the cancerous ones and hope that some of the healthy ones live, so this is a great step in sorting the two. Way to go!

    (RIPJT)
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    10/09/09

    @Curves: There was a great story about a guy who came up with a process of bonding gold nanoparticles to a certain protein and then injecting them. The protein bonds to cancer cells in the body and then you irradiate them with low power microwaves. Just like the aluminum foil in the microwave, the microwaves cause the gold to heat up and cook the cancer cells without causing any damage to the surrounding tissue.
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    Image of Ridley Ridley
    10/09/09

    @DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother: Not gold nanoparticles but this is what you are thinking of. [www.cbsnews.com]

    Its a cool story, no medical training but makes you wonder. I bet cancer researchers already knew this or had this idea. Think about all the cancer funding... its a huge business but there is no money in a procedure based cure. If its a pill, then book it! What if the cure was as simple as this story points out but hasn't been tried because there's no money in it? I don't know if thats true but as a scary thought.
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    Curves promoted this comment Ridley was starred Ridley was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    10/09/09

    @Ridley: I have heard before, and pray its not true, that there are effective, but inexpensive cures, and since cancer research is a giant industry, no one wants a cure since they would be out of a job. I surely do hope that just gossip, but, in this world, it has more than just a ring of truth to it.
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    Image of Accelerata Accelerata
    10/09/09

    @Ridley: Very doubtful. Cancer isn't something you treat once and then you never have it again. It can recur multiple times (and if you have unfortunate genetics, it very likely to). And the longer people live, the higher probability they will develop a cancer, so its a growing market. Dead people don't usually pay you more money, but living ones you treated successfully before will when they need you again.

    There's some really promising anti-viral drugs like Peregrine, that may work on cancer cells too. They affect cells expressing certain marker proteins that apparently are unique to cancerous and virally infected cells:

    [www.newscientist.com]
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    Curves promoted this comment Accelerata was starred Accelerata was unstarred
    Image of Accelerata Accelerata
    10/09/09

    @Curves: The company that patents and releases a cure for cancer will make 10's of billions of dollars easily. Cancer will never go away because its a natural breakdown of cellular system, so the profit incentive is to be that company that has the cure. Any academic researcher would be set for life if they discovered it (guaranteed tenure, probably unlimited future research budget, guaranteed Nobel prize, likely endorsement deals by private pharm. companies). No one has a good incentive not to release any discoveries.
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    Curves promoted this comment Accelerata was starred Accelerata was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    10/09/09

    @Accelerata: Knowing there is a positive financial and career incentive as well as the whole "good of mankind" aspect, I feel better. I hope if anyone ever has to decide between the two incentives, (good of mankind vs $$) that they go for the good of mankind.

    Thanks :)
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    10/09/09

    In reply to Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger
    Is this meant to suggest that a cougar at a high school kegger is vigorously hunting down cancer?
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    10/09/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: In recent years, cougars have dramatically changed their ways to improve their negative image as depicted by the media. They no longer openly promote their pedophillic ways and promote their public image by taking on the fight against cancer.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : It's not pedophilic if they're drinking age :P
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    Image of johnnytsmitw johnnytsmitw
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I believe the saying is, "if there is grass on the field play ball." and why were none of my underage drinking parties attended by cougars?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: If it's a high school kegger, they're certainly not drinking age.
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/09/09

    @johnnytsmitw: Mine were, but it was always the "cool" Moms and well... You would have needed to be really drunk.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: Unless of course, you're the cast of Dawson's Creek, then you'll never get carded.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/09/09

    In reply to Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger
    Mmmmm, Troi.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @Xeno: Quite a tossup between her and Jadzia Dax. You'd think the spots would make the decision easier, but it doesn't.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well if it's ranking then I'd put the top 5 like this:
    7 of 9, J. Dax, Kes, Troi, Kira
    Not that I'd given it any thought...
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    Image of AndrosZ AndrosZ
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:
    The spots run all the way down. Its like a great road map.
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    10/09/09

    @Xeno: This is fantastic news - I must not be nearly as much of a geek as I thought - I have no idea who Kira is... (Although I'm sure I'd remember the second someone said "Remember the girl who....?")
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    Xeno promoted this comment DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother was starred DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @AndrosZ: +100 for remembering that line.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/09/09

    @DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother:
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    10/12/09

    @Xeno: Oh - yeah, her.... I never liked her much and I never liked DS9 much...
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/07/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    for enhanced night vision, most psychedelic drugs will dilate your pupils quite a bit.

    of course, this comes with the added complexity of not only seeing your night time surroundings better, but also seeing things which aren't really there, and differentiating between them while in an altered state.

    YMMV.
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    10/07/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    Will it cost $6Million? I would not want Polarization as tilting your head would make LCDs blank. I've encountered some car dash electronics that are LCD based and with polarized glasses, you can't read them! (way to go Subaru Engineers).

    I would like the option to see a great spectrum. Infrared would be nice. Then I could hunt at night without any addons..
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    Image of Hank Scorpio Hank Scorpio
    10/07/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    Zoom vision! Someone invent zoom vision! I've always wanted to be able to zoom in on things far away, and be able to control it at whim. I'd trade my doomsday device for zoom vision!
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    10/07/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    I'll have a shine job please. Do you take VISA?
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    10/07/09

    @TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.:

    I would do it in a heartbeat, though I know quite a few people who would take advantage and hide my darkened goggles and shine a lamp on my face for me to wake up to.
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    Image of espinha espinha
    10/07/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    "Could laser eye surgery will become the new graduation boob job?"

    Maybe it could will.
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment espinha was starred espinha was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/07/09

    @espinha: Oy...Fixed. Thanks for spotting it.
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    Image of Bakafish Bakafish
    10/06/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    Nearsightedness is an advantage for people working with near field objects. We can see things at a much higher apparent magnification and clearly focus on things much closer than someone with normal eye sight. Of course the downside is that everything at a distance is a total blur. But that's what glasses and contacts are for. I am quite happy my eyes suck.
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    Image of sloanstrife sloanstrife
    10/06/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    In the last case, the paraplegic wasn't downgrading his vision, he was correcting is presbyopia, something which occurs later in life. His world would now mostly be near requirements, like reading/computer/tv (which would require more adequate near vision), and the surgery is improving his quality of life. So now he needs glasses for driving? I'm sure he won't mind.
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment gemcosta approved this comment sloanstrife was starred sloanstrife was unstarred
    Image of ridgecity ridgecity
    10/06/09

    In reply to Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
    I wanna see under people's clothes, how much is that?
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    Bigbadbikernerd promoted this comment ridgecity was starred ridgecity was unstarred
    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    10/06/09

    @ridgecity: I'd say about 30 days to six months...depending on the judge...
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