Global Technology – September 2011

Now let’s focus on this month’s most important advances in technology.  We’ll begin with five huge breakthroughs in medical research:

• A drug to prevent Alzheimer’s disease before the end of this decade.
• Brain cells that can be made directly from human skin, without stem cells.
• A newly developed virus that is programmed to cure the HIV virus.
• A new “bionic” leg that allows amputees to walk normally.
• An artificial lung.

Each of these breakthroughs offers the potential to save l.....