It’s riding high now, but everybody’s favorite computer company has experienced its share of bumps over the years. Time to savor Apple’s biggest reversals and fumbles. By Owen W. Linzmayer. PLUS: Wired News’ full coverage of Apple’s 30th anniversary.
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Wired magazine selects the choicest nerd throne, the trippiest wireless router and the least taxing tax software in this week’s Test.
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The company is known as much for its Apple logo and innovative marketing as for its products. We take a quick trip through some of Apple’s promos.
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A new method of delivering chemotherapy to cancer patients without incurring side effects such as hair loss and vomiting is being developed. The method, produced at the University of Bath, England, involves using tiny fibres and beads soaked in the chemotherapy drug which are then implanted into the cancerous area in the patient’s body.
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IBM scientists have developed a powerful new technique for exploring and controlling magnetism at its fundamental atomic level. The new method promises to be an important tool in the quest not only to understand the operation of future computer circuit and data-storage elements as they shrink toward atomic dimensions, but also to lay the foundation for new materials and computing devices that leverage atom-scale magnetic phenomena.
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While newly published research confirms that under laboratory circumstances prion-protein can be absorbed across the gut, it also shows that this is unlikely to occur in real life. In addition, the results show that the places in the gut that do take up these disease-associated proteins are different from the locations where infectivity is known to be amplified. The findings will be published in the Journal of Pathology.
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have given investigators around the world free access to a powerful tool for studying brain development.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that an HIV-1 accessory protein called Vpr destroys the host cell’s ability to survive by binding to a host receptor. This keeps an important enzyme from activating the cell’s immune system. These findings refine an earlier understanding of Vpr HIV pathogenesis and imply new approaches to treating AIDS, inflammatory diseases, and possibly sepsis.
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University of Cincinnati surgeons have developed a new, minimally invasive method for repairing a common and deadly form of aortic injury–an advance that could help reduce the number of deaths caused by auto accidents and major falls.
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A remotely-controlled catheter device guided by magnetic fields provides a safe and practical method for delivering radio frequency ablation treatment in the hearts of patients with atrial fibrillation, according to a new study in the April 4, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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