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Thursday December 6, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands Discovery of 100 million-year-old regions of DNA could accelerate crop-science advances New technique to deliver stem cell therapy may help damaged eyes regain their sight See-through ‘MitoFish’ opens a new window on brain diseases Chinese astronauts may grow vegetables on the Moon Driverless vehicles to zip at full speed through intersections Automated drug design using synthetic DNA self-assembly Latest News House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands December 6, 2012   The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a Senate resolution introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that calls on the U.S. government to oppose United Nations control of the Internet, The Hill’s Floor Action Blog reports. The 397-0 vote is meant to send a signal to countries meeting at a U.N. conference … more… Discovery of 100 million-year-old regions of DNA could accelerate crop-science advances December 6, 2012   University of Warwick scientists have discovered 100 million-year-old regions in the DNA of several plant species that could hold secrets about how specific genes are turned on or off and accelerate the pace of research into crop science and food security. By running a computational analysis of the genomes of the papaya, poplar, Arabidopsis, and … more… New technique to deliver stem cell therapy may help damaged eyes regain their sight December 6, 2012   University of Sheffield researchers have developed a new method for producing membranes to help in the grafting of stem cells onto the eye, mimicking structural features of the eye itself. The technology has been designed to treat damage to the cornea, the transparent layer on the front of the eye, which is one of the … more… See-through ‘MitoFish’ opens a new window on brain diseases December 6, 2012   German scientists have developed a transgenic variety of the zebrafish, which is transparent in the early stages of its life: the “MitoFish,” which enables the scientists to see how brain diseases like Alzheimer’s disturb the transport of mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. Background Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), … more… Chinese astronauts may grow vegetables on the Moon December 6, 2012   Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, according to Deng Yibing, deputy director of the Beijing-based Chinese Astronaut Research and Training Center, Xinhua News reports. Yibing said the experiment focused on a dynamic balanced mechanism of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water between people and plants in a … more… Driverless vehicles to zip at full speed through intersections December 6, 2012   Driverless vehicles will safely wiz through intersections at the full speed limit, according to researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation Research. Autonomous vehicles will turn themselves over to an automated intersection controller, with the controller tweaking their trajectory to prevent crashes, explained Ismail Zohdy of Cairo, Egypt, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at Virginia Tech, and Hesham Rakha, director … more… Automated drug design using synthetic DNA self-assembly December 6, 2012   Using a simple “drag-and-drop” computer interface and DNA self-assembly techniques, Parabon NanoLabs researchers have developed a new automated method of drug development that could reduce the time required to create and test medications, with the support of an NSF Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships grant. “We can now ‘print,’ molecule by molecule, exactly the compound that … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts TEDx Silicon Alley | Ray Kurzweil and Juan Enriquez — rise of the machines   Source: TEDx Silicon Alley TEDx Silicon Alley | In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxSiliconAlley, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxSiliconAlley event, TEDTalks video and live … more… Talking Brains and immortality with Ray Kurzweil and Juan Enriquez   Source: All Things D — December 4, 2012 | Arik Hesseldahl Kurzweil’s talk, which took place before our “Fireside Chat” that was announced as a surprise final event of the day’s proceedings, amounted to his first public appearance in connection with the publication of his new book, “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.” Naturally, it builds a bit on his previous … 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|*.