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Tuesday February 19, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Has dark matter finally been found? Soft arrays of miniature electrodes for improved Parkinson’s treatment Disruptions: on the fast track to routine 3D printing New therapy uses alternating current to cancel out Parkinson tremors Latest News Has dark matter finally been found? February 19, 2013   Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said Feb. 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Space.com reports. That’s when the first paper of results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle collector … more… Soft arrays of miniature electrodes for improved Parkinson’s treatment February 19, 2013   Miniature, ultra-flexible electrodes could be the answer to more successful treatment for Parkinson’s diseases, according to Professor Philippe Renaud of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He has developed soft arrays of miniature electrodes in his Microsystems Laboratory that open new possibilities for more accurate and local deep brain stimulation (DBS). Some 90,000 patients per year are treated for … more… Disruptions: on the fast track to routine 3D printing February 19, 2013   Hod Lipson, an associate professor and the director of the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell, said “3D printing is worming its way into almost every industry, from entertainment, to food, to bio- and medical-applications,” The New York Times reports. Dr. Lipson, the co-author of “Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing,” said that the technology “is not … more… New therapy uses alternating current to cancel out Parkinson tremors February 19, 2013   A new therapy could help suppress tremors in people with Parkinson’s disease, an Oxford University study suggests. The technique — called transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS) — cancels out the brain signal causing the tremors by applying a small, safe electric current across electrodes on the outside of a patient’s head. In a preliminary study, … more… 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|*.