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Monday July 12, 2010

Public Release: 12-Jul-2010
Nature Materials
MIT researchers create fibers that can detect and produce sound
In the August issue of Nature Materials, MIT Professor Yoel Fink, and his collaborators, announce a new milestone on the path to functional fibers: fibers that can detect and produce sound. Applications could include clothes that are themselves sensitive microphones, for capturing speech or monitoring bodily functions, and tiny filaments that could measure blood flow in capillaries or pressure in the brain.
MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, National Science Foundation, US Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Jennifer Hirsch
jfhirsch@mit.edu
617-253-1682
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/miot-mr071210.php

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***Desperate heroin users in a few African cities have begun engaging in a practice that is so dangerous it is almost unthinkable: they deliberately inject themselves with another addict’s blood, researchers say, in an effort to share the high or stave off the pangs of withdrawal.

The practice, called flashblood or sometimes flushblood, is not common, but has been reported in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the island of Zanzibar and in Mombasa, Kenya.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/13blood.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes