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Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have discovered a new diagnostic test for a severe heart condition that now often goes undetected before causing sudden death...
Since the disease runs in families, the test will likely serve shocked relatives wanting to know whether they are also at risk...
...diagnostic test consists of obtaining a sample of tissue from a heart biopsy and then looking for a specific protein that the researchers found exists in smaller quantities in patients with ARVC, said Angeliki Asimaki, the study’s lead author and a research fellow at the Medical School...
That requires an extreme amount of horsepower--the computational power of DreamWorks' render farm puts it roughly among the 15 fastest supercomputers on the planet. The studio partnered with Hewlett-Packard and Intel and built an enormous test bed on more than 17,500 sq. ft. in California. The Silicon Valley companies are hot on 3-D because they believe it's how people will navigate the Web and the desktops of their PCs and that it will be standard on computers and HDTVs...
...member on the Senate Intelligence Committee and national-security adviser to Senator Chuck Hagel, said there was little evidence to suggest that the interrogation of terrorism suspects under the Bush Administration had led to information that helped prevent attacks on U.S. soil. "At the Intelligence Committee, we tried to test these claims, but the evidence was very, very tenuous," he said...