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"Scientists at the University at Buffalo have reinvented phrenology in the form of a set of biometrics that produce a numerical score indicating the probability that you are about to commit a terrorist act.

Computer and behavioral scientists at the University at Buffalo are developing automated systems that track faces, voices, bodies and other biometrics against scientifically tested behavioral indicators to provide a numerical score of the likelihood that an individual may be about to commit a terrorist act..."

Read the full article by Cory Doctorow, at Boing Boing

"Americans Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin J. Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technology known as gene targeting in mice.

The process has been used to help science determine why some diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, strike people at a cellular level, as well as models in mice that show how human disorders like cardiovascular and neuro-degenerative ailments, along with diabetes and cancer, exist and strike otherwise healthy people..."

Read the full article by the Associated Press, at Fresh News

"It’s not often that Microsoft gets the drop on Google. But today it launched HealthVault in beta, a free online repository where anyone can keep their personal health records.  Meanwhile, Google Health has yet to launch, having recently lost its leader Adam Bosworth.

With HealthVault, you can import your health records from your doctors, hospitals, labs, prescription drug plans, and other healthcare providers. You can also type them in yourself, or upload data from personal health monitoring devices such as glucose or blood-pressure monitors..."

Read the full article by Erick Schonfel, at TechCrunch