Inventions and Innovations of the '70s '80s '90s.

[tex]

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Another medical breakthru from my neck of the woods. A team of researchers from Monash University has developed a device that can give on the spot blood test results by analysing the unique chemical ingredient of such ailments as Diabetes, HIV plus bacterial infections like EColi. After taking out a US patent the team hopes to get the 7kg battery powered device into GP clinics, Intensive Care Units and the developing world asap.

Good, waiting for medical results can be quite distressing for many particularly scan results.

[Donald the Great]

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Another medical breakthru from my neck of the woods. A team of researchers from Monash University has developed a device that can give on the spot blood test results by analysing the unique chemical ingredient of such ailments as Diabetes, HIV plus bacterial infections like EColi. After taking out a US patent the team hopes to get the 7kg battery powered device into GP clinics, Intensive Care Units and the developing world asap.

[Donald the Great]

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I reckon you have that spot on tex. Hawking defied all the odds after being given just two years to live after his diagnosis. He survived for an incredible further 55 years.

[tex]

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A new drug developed by Australian scientists at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience, and its partners at Melbourne University has dramatically improved clinical and cognitive symptoms of motor neurone disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It is the result of a painstaking 15 year clinical trial using the experimental drug CuATSM.

Motor Neurone Disease is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease. Its key hallmark is the death of the brain cells that control muscle movements. This results in muscle weakness and eventually paralysis.
Patients usually die of respiratory failure within three years of diagnosis, and there are no treatments or disease-modifying therapies available. Until now. This could be a game changer. Watch this space.

Thats exciting news Craig, is this what Stephen hawking had?

[Donald the Great]

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A new drug developed by Australian scientists at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience, and its partners at Melbourne University has dramatically improved clinical and cognitive symptoms of motor neurone disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It is the result of a painstaking 15 year clinical trial using the experimental drug CuATSM.

Motor Neurone Disease is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease. Its key hallmark is the death of the brain cells that control muscle movements. This results in muscle weakness and eventually paralysis.
Patients usually die of respiratory failure within three years of diagnosis, and there are no treatments or disease-modifying therapies available. Until now. This could be a game changer. Watch this space.

[Zincubus]

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I have the Donkey Kong version of that, also still works. I think that was more popular than the Mario Bros one in the UK though?

Quite possibly ... When did Mario really takeoff over here ??

N64 Super Mario 3D ??

The games are still selling second hand on eBay .




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[Mulletino]

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I have the Donkey Kong version of that, also still works. I think that was more popular than the Mario Bros one in the UK though?

[Zincubus]

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Never seen one of those before Zincubus, did it not sell well?

Still works perfectly despite being 35 years old !! ( 1983)


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[Zincubus]

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Never seen one of those before Zincubus, did it not sell well?

They were amazingly popular but maybe not here in the UK

It's a rather addictive little handheld game ..


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[tex]

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Never seen one of those before Zincubus, did it not sell well?

[Zincubus]

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This is mine




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[tex]

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My spider catcher, bought for a quid about twenty years ago from poundland and still going strong, probably the best quid i ever spent

[Donald the Great]

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Reassuring to know that research in the fight against cancer goes on across the globe and that Australian science is at the forefront. Perhaps this would of been better in the fighting cancer forum?

yes I notioned that after posting. I will transfer it.

[Donald the Great]

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The very large telescope facility, i love the "does what it says on the tin" mentality. As exciting as space research may be i do look around sometimes and think how better spent all that money may be. Scary to think for example that a country with so much poverty as India has its own space programme, dont get me wrong i understand why space exploration is a good thing but surely saving our own planet and humanity should be paramount to searching out its origins

I agree about priority of saving our green planet. There will always be people that want to explore far away regions. It is the human DNA. India used to have a lot of poverty but she now boasts the worlds largest middle class if not mistaken.

[tex]

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Australian scientists from the Australian National and Macquarie Universities will spearhead the design of an ambitious $32 million telescopic optics system which will produce images of space three times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Aussie boffins will lead the design phase of a new adaptive-optics system, called MAVIS, for one of the eight-metre telescopes at the ground-based Very Large Telescope facility in Chile.

Currently, bubbles of hot and cold air mixing in the atmosphere distort light waves and blur images captured from telescopes, producing a phenomenon exactly like "looking at the horizon through a desert," says ANU Associate Professor Francois Rigaut, who is leading the international consortium

The new technology will counteract this and produce images 10 to 20 times clearer than images captured without the technology, and three times more detailed than images captured by the Hubble telescope.

The very large telescope facility, i love the "does what it says on the tin" mentality. As exciting as space research may be i do look around sometimes and think how better spent all that money may be. Scary to think for example that a country with so much poverty as India has its own space programme, dont get me wrong i understand why space exploration is a good thing but surely saving our own planet and humanity should be paramount to searching out its origins