News tagged with replacements

Harvard group takes complexity out of video face replacement (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- From Facebook to YouTube to on the fly film projects, the presentation of content that entertains or instructs or both draws on visual tools, ranging from simple to complex. Novice as well ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Nanodiamond coatings safe for implants: study

Nanodiamonds designed to toughen artificial joints also might prevent the inflammation caused when hardworking metal joints shed debris into the body, according to an early study published this week in the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Cutting-edge study shows teeth can be used to determine what has been eaten

You are what you eat is truism that has been given new impetus by 'cutting edge' research led by the University of Leicester that reveals your teeth are literally shaped by your food.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

OpenSim open-source software from Stanford accurately models human motion

There are 640 muscles in the human body, or maybe it is 639. Or maybe it is 850. Or 656. It all depends on whom you ask. In any case, it is a lot. Stanford bioengineer Scott Delp knows; he has programmed almost every one ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New test spots early signs of mucopolysaccharidoses -- inherited metabolic disorders

A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, have developed a simple, reliable test for identifying biomarkers for mucopolysaccharidoses ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Seeking superior stem cells: 100-fold increase in efficiency in reprogramming human cells to induced stem cells

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have today announced a new technique to reprogramme human cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells. Their process increases the efficiency of cell reprogramming by one ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lubricant in metal-on-metal hip implants found to be graphite, not proteins

A team of engineers and physicians have made a surprising discovery that offers a target for designing new materials for hip implants that are less susceptible to the joint's normal wear and tear.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fake chips threaten military

A growing deluge of millions of counterfeit chips is posing peril to the military and the general public -- and perhaps nothing illustrates it better than a scheme federal prosecutors recently revealed that stretched from ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 23

Laboratory-grown urethras implanted in patients, scientists report

Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported today on a new advance in tissue engineering. The team is the first in the world to use patients' ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Second-generation ethanol processing cost prohibitive: study

Costs for second-generation ethanol processing, which will ease the stress on corn and sugarcane, are unlikely to be competitive until 2020, according to a unique Queen's University study.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biological joints could replace artificial joints soon

Artificial joint replacements can drastically change a patient's quality of life. Painful, arthritic knees, shoulders and hips can be replaced with state-of-the-art metal or ceramic implants, eliminating pain and giving a ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Research proves 'gender-bending' chemicals affect reproduction

New research has provided the first evidence that 'gender bending' chemicals which find their way from human products into rivers and oceans can have a significant impact on the ability of fish to breed in UK Rivers.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Gene-linked breast cancer risk unaffected by hormone therapy

Hormone replacement therapy and lifestyle choices do not boost the risk of breast cancer associated with a dozen common genetic mutations, according to a study published Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorized knee can make you run faster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Tsukuba University in Japan have come up with a motorized knee you can attach to your leg to make you run faster and use less muscle power.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 6 weblog

Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2