NASA Finishes Building Its Mars-bound Orion Spacecraft
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NASA goal to snag an asteroid and bring a space rock close to Earth is a distraction from the effort to send humans to Mars, a top asteroid expert says.
In a commentary in the journal Nature, planetary scientist Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calls NASAs Asteroid Redirect Mission (a.k.a. ARM) a multibillion-dollar stunt. The strongly worded text comes after a National Research Council report in June offered multiple routes to get to Mars -- including the asteroid-snagging plan -- but didnt recommend one over any other.
Binzel, whose work has helped to evaluate the hazard from various near-Earth asteroids, said its time to choose an option that doesnt detract from the ultimate goal of reaching the Red Planet.
Over the next two months, Obamas 2015 budget will be shaped. NASA needs to make a clear choice about its priorities, Binzel wrote. It should abandon the ARM mission concept and make an asteroid survey its top priority to provide a basis for future crewed missions.
The Obama administration has set goals to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars by the mid-2030s. But trying to retrieve part of an asteroid is a waste of resources, Binzel argued.
It will require an ancillary spacecraft deploying either a huge capture bag or a Rube Goldberg contraption resembling a giant arcade-game claw, Binzel wrote. Neither technology is useful for getting humans to Mars.
Instead, rather than hunt an asteroid down, lasso it and lug it back, NASA should use near-Earth asteroids as stepping stones on the way to Mars, he said. Thousands of sizable space rocks pass by Earth as close as the moon each year at least one 10-meter-wide asteroid comes within that distance each week.
Near-Earth asteroids are the most accessible interplanetary stepping stones to Mars, Binzel wrote. Why retrieve an asteroid when we can wait for one to come near us?
Ideally, NASA would aim for increasingly distant targets. The first missions could cross short distances and last a few weeks, and build to months-long missions sending humans farther into space. Each would be a learning opportunity to test technology that could eventually transport astronauts to the Red Planet.
But if asteroids were to be used as stepping stones, their movements would need to be predicted well ahead of their Earth flybys, Binzel said. A 2005 federal law requires that NASA find 90% of hazardous asteroids (140 meters or larger) by 2020. That effort would require $200 million per year which may seem like a lot, but is a fraction of the billions that the Asteroid Redirect Mission would cost, he said.
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The spacecraft, which could one day take humans to Mars, will blast off for its maiden voyage on Dec. 4.
NASA's next-generation Orion crew module has finally been completed, and the first spacecraft designed to carry humans on deep space missions beyond the moon will undergo its first test flight on Dec. 4, the space agency said this week.
Orion marks a return to the capsule designs of the Apollo Program. The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is larger than the three-person spacecraft used to take the Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, with room enough to carry an additional space traveler.
The four-person, long-range capsule's first test flight will carry it to 15 times the height of the International Space Station.
The first, uncrewed test flight will be a 4.5-hour trip sending Orion around the Earth twice at a distance of 36,000 miles, or "farther than any crewed spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years," according to the space agency.
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Google will face big challenges developing a nanotechnology-based test for cancer and other diseases.
This week Google described its ambitious plan to use magnetic nanoparticles circulating through the blood to detect and report back on signs of cancer or an impending heart attack. Some nanotechnology experts, however, have responded by asking whether Googles project is more science fiction than medical reality.
Its very exciting that a company with Googles financial firepower is taking on this big challenge, says Chad Mirkin, who directs the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University. But he says that what Google has described is an intent to do something, not a discovery or a pathway to get there. At this point, he says, the technology is speculative: its basically a good Star Trek episode.
Googles basic idea is nothing newresearchers have been developing magnetic nanoparticle diagnostics and treatments for years (see Nanomedicine). In the announcement, Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at the Google X research lab, said essentially the idea is simple.
The concept might be simple, but executing it isnt. Employing nanoparticles in the body is very difficult, and its unlikely that Googles vision will be realized anytime soon.
The main problem facing the search giant will be biology. Google intends to produce a nanoparticle pill that you can swallow. From there the nanoparticles would somehow get into the bloodstream, something Mirkin says requires a big leap of faith. Once in the bloodstream, theyre supposed to circulate, find their way to targets such as cancer cells, and then be collected for measurements. A magnet held near superficial blood vessels on the wrist, for example, could concentrate the nanoparticles in one place. Google did not say how it would measure a signal from the nanoparticles.
Each of these steps is challenging. For one thing, the bodys natural defenses are designed to eliminate foreign objects, Mirkin says, so Google will need to find a way around that.
In addition to challenges in delivering the nanoparticles and reading a signal from them, another key question is whether the system will be safe, says MIT professor Robert Langer. Indeed, says John McDonald, a professor at Georgia Tech, one of the big hurdles we had with magnetic nanoparticles was their toxicity. McDonald says that Although anything is possible, I think there may be more effective ways to detect cancer and other diseases at an early stage than the approach envisioned by Google.
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Judge rules in favor of plaintiff who claims he received more than 30 telephone calls from Dish Network within an eight-month period, despite the fact that he was not, nor had ever been, an account holder with the company.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (PRWEB) October 21, 2014
Charleston-based attorney Harry F. Bell, Jr., managing partner of The Bell Law Firm, in partnership with Tampa law firm Morgan & Morgan, has secured a favorable decision for Chester Moore, who filed suit against Dish Network in the Northern District of West Virginia Martinsburg, for unwarranted phone calls it made to his number in 2012. (Civil action no. 3:13-CV-36) (1)
"We are very pleased that our team was able to get the court to agree these calls were clearly in violation of the law, Bell said.
In a ruling issued October 16, Judge Gina Groh found that Dish Network had committed numerous violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by calling Moore 31 times in an attempt to collect a debt from a former Dish customer to whom Moores cell phone number was previously assigned. (2)
The court awarded triple damages to Moore for numerous calls he received from Dish, even after he called the company several times to clarify that he was not the former customer. (3) Moore had never been a Dish customer, he simply had been assigned a phone number belonging to a former Dish account holder. (4)
The court awarded Moore $500 for each of 24 unwanted calls, and $1,500 for each of seven calls he received after notifying Dish that he was not the person the company was trying to contact. (5)
The TCPA prohibits companies from making calls using an automated dialing system or artificial or prerecorded voice to cell phone customers, unless the call recipient has given prior consent or the call is made for emergency purposes. (6)
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Whether you live in the city or the countryside can affect your health and susceptibility for disease.
In 1854, an English doctor named John Snow pinpointed an outbreak of cholera in London to a single contaminated water pump.
A pioneer of modern epidemiology, Snow used information about where the sick people lived to deduce that they were drinking tainted water from that source.
And while using clues about peoples' locations is an important tool in public health, it's now set to make individual health care even more personal.
"Personalized medicine has ... been equated with genomics," says Dr. Rishi Manchandra, author of The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source and presenter of a TED Talk about environmental influences on health last August. "That's an incomplete view of what personalized means. We are not just creatures of our genes; we are creatures of our environment."
It seems obvious, but doctors don't traditionally ask their patients where they live as part of a medical diagnosis.
A map of toxic waste sites can be combined with maps of waterways and cities to reveal potential health risks. Bill Davenhall/Esri hide caption
A map of toxic waste sites can be combined with maps of waterways and cities to reveal potential health risks.
Some researchers and health professionals are calling the use of mapping in health care "geomedicine," due in part to a 2009 TED Talk by Bill Davenhall, considered the field's father. Clinical data account for only 10 percent of the factors that determine a person's health, Davenhall says.
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USF passes hurdle to move med school downtown
The University of South Florida is moving forward with a plan to build a new medical school in downtown Tampa.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The University of Washingtons plan to double the size of its medical school program in Spokane is the most cost-effective way to meet the states need for more doctors, according to a new study released Friday.
Its the latest skirmish in a battle between UW and Washington State University to increase medical education in the states second-largest city.
The new study, commissioned by UW, found that Eastern Washington does not have enough residency programs to support a separate medical school.
The study also said the average cost of medical education per student at UW is about $70,000 a year. Thats lower than the estimated $98,000 per student cost at a stand-alone WSU medical school, the study said.
This study supports our expansion plans and validates the success of what we have been doing in Spokane since we began medical instruction in the city in 2008, said UW President Michael K. Young.
We are offering the most cost-effective, most feasible, and most immediate answer to the challenge of producing more physicians for the underserved areas of our state, Young said. Our commitment to our students in Spokane and to the community is deep, and we intend to continue to serve the region and expand the UW School of Medicine in Spokane.
Washington State University President Elson Floyd said WSU remains committed to creating a medical school in Spokane.
For too long Washington state has produced too few physicians to meet the needs of our state, Floyd said. While we welcome the University of Washingtons announcement today about their intention to address part of this shortfall, it is simply not enough.
Floyd said WSU supports the expansion plans of the University of Washington in Spokane, but we believe we must also pursue a new medical school.
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The cheapest, fastest way to increase the number of Washington students studying to become doctors in the eastern part of the state is to allow the University of Washingtons medical school program to expand in Spokane, a study commissioned by the UW has found.
The study is the latest salvo between the states two research universities, which are both vying for money from the state Legislature in the upcoming session to create new medical-school slots in Spokane.
Underscoring the UWs interest in Eastern Washington, UW President Michael K. Young and UW Regent Orin Smith both flew to Spokane to announce the results of the study at a morning news conference Friday.
WSU wants to build a new medical school from scratch in that city, and the UW wants to expand an existing program. Although both universities say their relationship has not become acrimonious, the two schools dissolved a medical school partnership earlier this month and announced they would pursue separate paths to address the physician shortage.
Theres little debate about the need.
Only about 120 Washington residents are accepted each year into the UW School of Medicine, the states only public medical school program although six times that many apply. Both universities, and many medical professionals, agree that Washington should be sending more of its students to medical school as part of a strategy to increase the number of doctors practicing primary medicine in rural and underserved areas of the state.
The UW report, written by research firm Tripp Umbach, says that the UWs plan to double the size of its medical school program would be the most cost-effective option, and could be expanded rapidly.
The report says the average cost of medical education per student in the UW program is $70,000 per year. Thats lower than WSUs estimated cost of $98,000 per year if it were to build its own medical school.
Tripp Umbach also found that Eastern Washington cannot support two medical schools because theres a limit on the number of clinical training and residency training sites available suggesting that the Legislature must pick one option or the other, but cannot support both.
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Dalhousie University Medical School has opened a new research lab to study treatments used to fight diseases like cancer and the star attraction is a fixture in many home aquariums.
Thousands of zebrafish will be used as models for the study. The fish share many genes with humans and reproduce in large numbers so they provide efficient and cost effective research subjects.
Dr. Jason Berman says the bigger lab holds 75,000 fish and he hopes it will shorten the time to test treatments for childhood cancers.
The research involves injecting donated human cells into fish embryos. Scientists can watch what happens inside the fish's systems using a transparent variety of zebrafish called Caspar.
Laboratory manager Chansey Veinotte says the small, simple structure of the fish actually make them ideal for study.
That simplicity is at our advantage when were doing cancer research or any other disease research, he said. We can look at a lot of things in one view. We can put cancer cells into the fish or we can give different fish different diseases and we can watch them progress. Thats something we dont get to see in humans.
Berman says researchers can see what is happening inside.
Dr. Jason Berman says the bigger lab holds 75,000 fish. (CBC)
The fish, when their embryos are transparent,allows us to visualize things very easily in terms of what is happening inside the fish, hesaid.
So many of the studies we do, we put human cancer cells into the fish and treat them with drugs by just exposing the fish to the drug and the water and we can see the responses.
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