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Technology Review has a very interesting article about new technology for detecting very small amounts of proteins that may be associated with cancers (biomarkers) in the blood. It holds the prospect of enabling quick, relatively non-invasive, cheap early detection devices. Biomedical researchers have been discovering more and more proteins that reveal the presence of a cancer before its symptoms appear ...

From Bloomberg: Mammograms and potent new drugs contributed to a drop in mortality rates from breast cancer in the final 25 years of the 20th century, a study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine found. Seven teams of statistics experts assessed breast cancer rates in a study paid for by the National Cancer Institute. Their results, considered definitive, show ...

Okay, okay. so maybe you weren’t so impressed with my ACS Offices Google map. For a more thoroughly developed demonstration of the potential, see this map for Pakistan earthquake relief. Again, you can go to the Communitywalk website and look at some of the experiments others have tried or register and start your own.

All the buzz these days is about Web 2.0. The term applies to the idea of an internet built for much greater user participation in what is on the web. It also applies evidently to a lot of hype around the Bay Area from people who miss the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s and want another shot at it. ...