Circuit Board modeled on Human brain created: Stanford bioengineers

It Could be said one of the biggest success for scientists after they developed a new circuit board modeled on the human brain. The research led by Stanford Scientists could lead the new frontiers in robotics and computing.

" From a pure energy perspective, the brain is hard to match," said Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford.

They developed

Sachin Tendulkar's Birthday.....

Sachin Tendulkar's birthday..

There was a time when it was said that every time Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar walked into the field with his bat, the bowlers felt a cold shiver run down their spine. They knew that if the little master got going, left nothing to celebrate.
 
He would send the most dexterously bowled balls to the boundary with a flick of his wrist.

Nearly five months ago, when Sachin Tendulkar retired, it was as if the bowlers had lost already. They had nothing and no one else to bowl to. After all, how many times does a man get to throw something at an entity who is revered as a god around the world.

He still commands the respect that he did when he would don the blues of the Indian team and walk out into the field, doesn't matter he is wearing pads and gloves to THUNDER.
He is the man who brought about a new age in cricket and rewrote the laws of how a ball could be hit with a bat.

Once again Sachin....

One Man, Tons of Reasons to cheer. Happy birthday master.

Yale Research Shows People with a Mental Illness are More Likely to Smoke

Those in the United States with a mental illness diagnosis are much more likely to smoke cigarettes and smoke more heavily, and are less likely to quit smoking than those without mental illness, regardless of their specific diagnosis, a new study by researchers from the Yale School of Medicine shows.

They also found variations in smoking rates and likelihood of quitting among different diagnoses of mental illness. The results are reported in the April issue of the journal Tobacco Control.

Thirty-nine percent of adults with a psychiatric diagnosis smoked compared to 16% without a diagnosis, according to data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions analyzed by researchers. Two out of every three people with drug use disorder smoke, compared to one out of three with social phobia.

“We know that smokers with mental illness are more susceptible to smoking-related disease, and those with mental illness die 25 years earlier than adults without mental illness,” said Sherry McKee, associate professor of psychiatry, and senior author on the study. “Effective smoking cessation treatments are available and we know that smokers with mental illness can quit smoking. We need to address why smokers with mental illness are not being treated for their smoking.”
Over the three-year study period, 22% of smokers with no psychiatric disorders were able to quit smoking, whereas rates of quitting among those with psychiatric disorders were 25% lower. Rates of quitting were lowest among those with dysthymia (10%), agoraphobia (13%), and social phobia (13%). “We also found that individuals with multiple diagnoses had the lowest quit rates,” added Philip Smith, lead author on the study.

This study adds to evidence that smokers with mental illness consume nearly half of all cigarettes in the United States, despite making up a substantially smaller proportion of the population.


Researchers and policymakers are increasingly calling attention to this important public health issue, and this study helps point to a need for interventions and policy that directly help individuals with mental illness quit smoking. 


Source:
Yale School of Medicine 

Self-Healing Engineered Muscle Grown in the Laboratory

Biomedical engineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates into mice quickly, and for the first time, demonstrates the ability to heal itself both inside the laboratory and inside an animal.

The study conducted at Duke University tested the bioengineered muscle by literally watching it through a window on the back of living mouse.

Electric shocks help paralyzed patients move again – study

Researchers have helped four paralyzed men to regain movement in their legs and feet using electric shocks. The study has been hailed as a milestone and could pave the way for groundbreaking treatments for paralysis patients.

Researchers at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, are pioneering a new technique to treat paralysis. In a study published in UK science magazine the Brain, they showed that four men regained limited ability to move their legs and feet after an electric device was implanted in their spines.