Digital emergency radio network raises health fears
News However, scientists are concerned that it could transmit at a frequency that could harm brain tissue. The Stewart Report said that exposure to such frequencies could cause the release of calcium from brain cells.
[July 13, 2001, 12:10]
BodyTechnic: New funding for brain implants
News Before they are implanted, the cones are coated with chemicals - taken from tissue inside the patients' own knees - to encourage nerve growth. The implants are then placed in the brain's motor cortex - which controls body movement - and over the...
[December 3, 1998, 11:57]
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[December 29, 2006, 7:00]
Memory, intelligence and the Internet
News A field of neuroscience, brain plasticity deals with the ability of brain tissue to adapt and change physically and functionally throughout life. Without invasive surgery or pharmaceuticals, Posit Science is testing programmes on the elderly to...
[September 23, 2005, 14:00]
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[February 15, 2006, 7:00]
World 'on the cusp of a digital revolution'
News Several organisations at the conference will also discuss papers showing how chips can be inserted into brain tissue and how energy-efficient bionic ears can be created for people who are deaf. We are on the verge of a world where all manner of...
[February 8, 2005, 15:35]
BodyTechnic: Cancer treatment spares healthy tissue
News The control offered by the device allows clinicians to treat tumours with minimal damage to surrounding tissue. Trials on the treatment of brain and skin tumours have taken place and the system is now being extended to the treatment of breast cancer.
[December 3, 1998, 14:19]
Research: Mobiles potentially harmful to human cells
News Previous research into the effects of radiation on human tissue has been conducted on the assumption that they are cylindrical. Dr Gerard Hyland warned that the low-intensity, pulsed radiation used by mobile phones exert subtle non-thermal...
[December 11, 2000, 11:19]
Study allows for mobile phone emission increase
News You're looking at a maximum temperature rise in tissue of something between 0.06 and 0.08 degrees Celsius," said Wayne Cornelius, head of ARPANSA's EMR and Laser and Optical Radiation section. According to Cornelius, the absence of conclusive and...
[May 8, 2002, 10:02]
One in ten children ignore mobile guidelines
News The BMA is concerned that insufficient research has been carried out into the effects of mobile phone emissions on internal tissue, such as kidneys and reproductive organs, which could be exposed to mobile radiation when a child composes and then...
[June 29, 2001, 11:29]
Nanotechnology takes up golfing challenge
News Research institutions now are looking at ways to manipulate nano-sized particles to regenerate nerve tissue in humans or create new types of processors. The golf ball is the brain child of a couple of physicists who work at a technical institute...
[November 22, 2004, 8:15]
BodyTechnic: Cancer treatment spares healthy tissue
Talkback My sister was diagnosed with brain cancer.She has had radium treatment(14 sessions).The dr's has no further treatment to give.She has now developed shingles on her abdomen.She lost her speech when they did a biopsy to see how old the tumour is...
[January 22, 2004, 8:08]
News Burst: Mobiles to get safety warnings
News The three are working together to develop a standard for measuring specific absorption rates (SAR) -- a measure indicating the maximum radiation a kilogram of tissue absorbs. Mobile phones will come with safety guarantee stickers starting next year...
[August 29, 2000, 9:36]
