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Prostate Cancer

If your doctor recommends surgery to treat your prostate cancer, you may be a candidate for the da Vinci Prostatectomy, a new, less-invasive approach to prostate removal. This method incorporates the latest advancements in robot-assisted technology that allows surgeons to perform complex surgeries with greater visualization and precision while speeding patient recovery."

Our Technological Future: Are You Immune to Cancer?: "Seven years ago, biochemist Zheng Cui of Wake Forest University was conducting a routine experiment, injecting test mice with a strain of cancer cells so aggressive it caused a 100 percent death rate. Oddly, one of the mice wouldn't die. Thinking he had made an error, Cui injected the mouse with a million times the lethal dose, but it still lived.

Cui was intrigued. He bred the mouse and found that 40 percent of its offspring share a remarkable resistance to many forms of cancer. When the animals' immune systems identify a cancer cell, a genetic tweak allows their bodies to launch a massive attack of white blood cells that kills the budding tumor.

Now Cui and his colleagues have found a clue that may point the way to an actual cure. When they inject white blood cells from any of these anticancer mice into their nonresistant brethren, the injected animals become resistant as well, fighting off induced cancer in a matter of weeks or avoiding it entirely.

Even more promising, Cui has sampled a group of human volunteers and found that 10 to 15 percent have similar super cancer-fighting white blood cells. That could explain why some people never get cancer and why others' tumors spontaneously regress. Cui proposes injecting these people's white blood cells into cancer patients to see if he can transfer their immunity."

WorldFitness.CA - News - Men Who Sleep With A Partner Are Dumber: "In a new study, researchers found that when men slept with a partner, their sleep was disturbed enough to cause a decline in cognitive ability the next day


Austrian scenists warn that men who sleep with their wives are at risk of damaging their brains - at least in the short term"

People's Daily Online -- First robot restaurant opens in HK: "A robot waiter (L) serves in the first Robot Restaurant in Hongkong opened on July 17,2006. Robots serve as waiters to take orders and give performances in this restaurant.


Guests pose for a photo with a robot waiter in the first Robot Restaurant in Hongkong opened on July 17, 2006. Robots serve as waiters to take orders and give performances in this restaurant."

People's Daily Online -- First robot restaurant opens in HK: "A robot waiter (L) serves in the first Robot Restaurant in Hongkong opened on July 17,2006. Robots serve as waiters to take orders and give performances in this restaurant.


Guests pose for a photo with a robot waiter in the first Robot Restaurant in Hongkong opened on July 17, 2006. Robots serve as waiters to take orders and give performances in this restaurant."

Robot Gossip: Dyson's Robot Vacuum Cleaner: "well known for their high priced bright yellow vacuum cleaners will be offering their version of the home robot later this year.
The US $6000(Yen 684,000)Dyson DC06 will break new ground in the field of home appliances that are more intelligent than their owners.

According to Gizmag, along with the breakthrough pricing you get a vacuum that is:

Capable of 'learning' the layout of a room without and navigating safely around unforseen obstacles, the DC06 is 5% vacuum cleaner and 95% robotic intelligence. Combining over 70 sensory devices and three on-board computers with independent wheel, microprocessor-driven SR electrical motors, the DC06 can make 10 decisions every second, enabling it to manoeuvre precisely and clean efficiently without repetition, even recognising when the job is done."