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Kevin Makice

Will we hear the light? Surprising discovery that infrared can activate heart and ear c... - 0 views

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    University of Utah scientists used invisible infrared light to make rat heart cells contract and toadfish inner-ear cells send signals to the brain. The discovery someday might improve cochlear implants for deafness and lead to devices to restore vision, maintain balance and treat movement disorders like Parkinson's
Kevin Makice

2020 vision of vaccines for malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS - 0 views

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    Collectively, malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year - nearly the entire population of the state of Washington - and represent one of the world's major public health challenges as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. In the May 26, 2011, edition of scientific journal Nature, Seattle BioMed Director Alan Aderem, Ph.D., along with Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D., Global Head of Vaccines Research for Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, discuss recent advances in vaccine development, along with new tools including systems biology and structure-based antigen design that could lead to a deeper understanding of mechanisms of protection. This, in turn, will illuminate the path to rational vaccine development to lift the burden of the world's most devastating infectious diseases.
Kevin Makice

'Bionic eye' implant offers hope to the blind - 0 views

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    Elias Konstantopoulus runs through an optics test with his "bionic" eye glasses during a session at the Lions Vision Research and Rehabilation Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Konstantopoulus is blind but working with Johns Hopkins University he has been implanted with a microchip and given a set of glasses that enable him to distinguish between light and dark.
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