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Retinal Implant + Biopsy Needle

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发表于 12-22-2010 09:49:04 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |正序浏览 |阅读模式
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The Dec. 9, 2010 issue of Economist magazine includes insert Technology Quarterly. The following two articles are medically related.

(1) retinal implant:

Seeing into the future; Medical technology: The first commercial retinal implant is about to go on sale. It may be crude, but so were the first cochlear implants, 26 years ago. Economist, Dec.  
http://www.economist.com/node/17647663?story_id=17647663&CFID=151862771&CFTOKEN=96853718

My comment:
(a) Second Sight
http://www.2-sight.com
(read the section Device)

The Team (web) page shows "Robert Greenberg, MD, PhD, President and CEO."
(b) Sylmar, California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylmar,_California
(a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles)
(c) Argus (n; Latin from Greek Argos):
"1: a hundred-eyed monster of Greek mythology
2: a watchful guardian"
www.m-w.com

(i) In some other places, he is described as a giant. This is how he looks like.
Argos Panoptes
http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteArgosPanoptes.html
(ii) Argus has an epithet "Panoptes", "all-seeing" in Greek.

(d) Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorfields_Eye_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust
(the oldest and largest eye hospital in the world and is internationally renowned for its comprehensive clinical and research activities; founded on the Moorfields in 1805; moved to its present site in 1899 [in the London Borough of Islington])
(e) University of Tübingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen
(a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; one of Germany's oldest universities; established 1477)
(f)
(i) "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." Genesis 1: 3-4 (King James).
http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/1.html#1
(ii) Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind. John 9.
http://www.bartleby.com/108/43/9.html


(2) biopsy needle

Better safe than sorry; Medicine: A new type of needle provides a better way to collect samples from tumours, without the risk of spreading the cancer
http://www.economist.com/node/17647593?story_id=17647593&CFID=151862771&CFTOKEN=96853718


Note: NeoDynamics AB; Medical Equipment for Cancer Management (located in Sweden)

AntiMeta (trademark)
http://www.neodynamics.se/antimeta.html


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