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Thinking will make it so

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Patients paralyzed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, can communicate through brain waves, using a thought translation device. Thoughts are electrical signals, and neuroscientists can translate brain waves into action. Patients type messages by amplifying and dampening their brain waves to select letters on a video screen. The system can only type 2 characters per minute, but the idea can be used to allow ALS patients to control light switches or a wheelchair.

Research, Physiological aspects, Neurology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Thought and thinking, Thinking, I/O devices

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The new old man

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An account is presented of the 1999 discovery of a human skull on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, which has been dated as 3.5 million years old. Names 'Kenyanthropus platyops' (flat-faced man of Kenya), characteristics include a small brain and small teeth.

Observations, Discovery and exploration, Paleontology, Kenya, Indigenous peoples, Primitive societies, Traditional societies

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MAde-to-order medicine

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Issues concerning research advances into personalized genetic treatments are discussed. Particular attention is given to the development of drugs with pharmaco-genetic properties aimed at treating patients suffering from different forms of cancer.

Drugs, Genetic aspects

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