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Thursday November 22, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Has Facebook made you psychotic? Building biomimetic synthetic membrane channels out of DNA ‘Nanospinning’ fibers for ultrafine bioscaffolds, filters, capacitors, fuel cells Nanotech device mimics dog’s nose to detect explosives Nanoscale probes light up when they detect specific diseases Latest News Building biomimetic synthetic membrane channels out of DNA November 22, 2012   Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and the University of Michigan have constructed synthetic membrane channels using DNA molecules as programmable building materials for custom-designed, self-assembling, nanoscale structures. Synthetic membrane channels could be used as molecular sensors, antimicrobial agents, and drivers of novel nanodevices. To wall off the insides of cells from the outside world, … more… ‘Nanospinning’ fibers for ultrafine bioscaffolds, filters, capacitors, fuel cells November 22, 2012   A new system for spinning nanofibers that should offer significant productivity increases while drastically reducing power consumption has been designed by MIT research scientists. Nanofibers — strands of material only a couple hundred nanometers in diameter — have a huge range of possible applications: scaffolds for bioengineered organs, ultrafine air and water filters, and lightweight … more… Nanotech device mimics dog’s nose to detect explosives November 22, 2012   UCSB researchers have designed a detector that uses microfluidic nanotechnology to mimic the biological mechanism behind canine scent receptors.  These portable, accurate, and highly sensitive devices that sniff out vapors from explosives and other substances could become as commonplace as smoke detectors in public places, thanks to researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, led by professors Carl Meinhart of … more… Nanoscale probes light up when they detect specific diseases November 22, 2012   Washington University researchers have developed nanoscale probes that bind to biomarkers of disease and, when hit by an infrared laser, light up to reveal their location. The probes, called BRIGHTs (Bi-layered Raman-Intense Gold nanostructures with Hidden Tags), comprise 20 nm. diameter gold nanoparticles covered with molecules called Raman reporters, which are in turn covered by a thin shell of … more… New BLOG POSTS Has Facebook made you psychotic? November 22, 2012 by Amara D. Angelica   Are you lonely or vulnerable due to the loss of or separation from a loved one? Are you inexperienced with technology? If so, you might want to read this before logging onto Facebook or Twitter after (or during) your Thanksgiving dinner.  Dr. Uri Nitzan of Tel Aviv University‘s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Shalvata Mental Health Care … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Ridiculously accurate futurist shares his bold prediction on the Glenn Beck program   Source: The Blaze — November 20, 2012 | Liz Klimas The Mayans might have predicted that the end of the world is only a month away from now, but Ray Kurzweil would say the end of the world as we know it will come sometime in the middle of 2040. At that time, Kurzweil believes technology and artificial intelligence (or accelerated intelligence as he would call … more… Read full article here Ray Kurzweil on the future workforce   Source: The Washington Post — November 15, 2012 | Vivek Wadwha & Ray Kurzweil Singularity University, on the grounds of the NASA Research Center at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley, abounds in optimism, and, as Singularity’s Vice President of Innovation and Research, I have understandably caught the bug. I have written about why I believe this will be the most innovative decade in human history, how we are headed for … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.