Transformational breakthroughs have taken place across the scientific spectrum, most importantly in medical biotechs. One that stands out is a nutraceutical that contains anatabine citrate, a naturally occurring food substance found in solanaceous plants.
July 19th, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | ContinuedArchive for Patrick Cox
Patrick Cox has lived deep inside the world of transformative technologies for over 25 years. In the 1980s, he worked in computer software development and manufacturing. By the mid-1990s, he worked as a consultant for Netscape - the company that handled 90% of all Internet browsing traffic at the time. InfoWorld and USA Today have featured Patrick's research many times.
Space Guns
In one of his works, Jules Verne imagined a voyage to the moon enabled by a gigantic space gun that fired a projectile holding three travelers to the moon. Today, a kind of space gun is moving toward true viability and possible commercial application.
July 11th, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
The Immortalizing Enzyme
In the early 1500s, according to legend, the Spanish explorer, Ponce de Leon, traversed Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth. He never found it. 500 years later, scientists are still searching for it. They haven’t found it either, but they might be getting close.
July 1st, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | Continued
Profiting From the War Against Bacteria
I have never seen such an era of innovation and breakthroughs in the medical field as we are witnessing today… Small biotech companies are racing toward the next big breakthrough. To be on the forefront of technology in this day and age can lead to outstanding profits…
June 24th, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
Dr. Thorium or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying by Killing the Bomb
Dan Rodricks, Host, Midday: I’m Dan Rodricks, and you’re listening to a special edition of Midday we call Power Ahead: The Energy Future. We continue our discussion about nuclear power with a specific look at something of international public concern since the tsunami hit Japan. Can even an advanced economy master nuclear power safely? Can nuclear power be safely harnessed?
May 30th, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | Continued
Open Source Finally Wins
In yesterday’s edition of The Daily Reckoning, I asserted, “There is going to be a rapid acceleration in the adoption of smartphones very soon. This is because the Android operating system has basically won the technological battle of the bands.
April 15th, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 12 comments | Continued
SMS: Nvst B4 It’s 2 L8
I’ve written quite a lot in the past about the battle between Microsoft and Google. That battle, however, is actually an outgrowth of another more fundamental tension in the information technology, or IT, world.
April 14th, 2011 | Patrick Cox | 1 comment | Continued
BioTime Cracks the DNA Cell Command Code
So, today, I’m going to tell you about one of the most recent developments. BioTime’s (AMEX:BTX) new program to identify the gene transcription factors that control cells (please note, BioTime now trades under the new ticker symbol BTX). This is power that goes far beyond alchemists’ dreams of transmutation. Turning lead into gold is nothing compared to the ability to turn adult skin cells into youthful angioblasts, hemangioblasts and other repair cells.
November 11th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 4 comments | Continued
Biotech, An American Success Story
BioTime Inc. (AMEX: BTIM) announced a breakthrough agreement with Big Pharma. Israeli pharma giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and BioTime’s majority-owned Israeli subsidiary Cell Cure Neurosciences Ltd. have entered into an exclusive license option agreement.
October 14th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
No More Bones to Pick
As I have observed many times, stem cell therapies hold enormous promise for curing disease and repairing tissue. Stem cell science even has the potential to stop or reverse the aging process – at some point. The companies like BioTime Inc. (AMEX:BTIM) that I have recommended to the subscribers…
September 10th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
The Final Frontier…For Your Portfolio
SpaceX has pursued a simple, redundant, scalable design for their rockets. Falcon 9, for example, uses the same Merlin engines as the Falcon 1. As its name suggests, Falcon 9′s first stage uses nine Merlins. The second stage also uses a Merlin engine, with modifications for re-ignition and operation in a vacuum. This reduces the final cost of the launch vehicle.
July 13th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 1 comment | Continued
Huge RNAi Breakthroughs!
Anti-virus software periodically updates by downloading new additions to its database of evil code. In a sense, RNAi offers scientists a way to hack those evil code updates and inject their own code sequences.
April 6th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
The Second Huge Stem Cell Breakthrough in a Week
I’ll explain the ISCO developments in some detail. A reader, by the way, recently suggested that I write the Stem Cells for Dummies book for those who are confused by this complex field.
March 25th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | Continued
Van Jones the Communist
I assume that you know by now that the president’s “green czar,” Van Jones, has resigned. Jones had come to prominence by merging environmentalism with grievance politics.
September 24th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | Continued
When Computers Meet Cell Biology
The sequencing of the human genome has resulted in the emergence of an enormously important new branch in the biotechnological sciences. The most common terms for this field are bioinformatics or computational biology.
September 18th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
