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IP: Science In the News MILITARY RESEARCHERS LOOK TO ENCOMPASS BIOLOGY
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:44:20 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: inthenews <inthenews () SIGMAXI ORG> Reply-To: inthenews () SIGMAXI ORG Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:58:37 -0400 To: SCIENCE-IN-THE-NEWS () LISTSERVER SIGMAXI ORG Subject: Science In the News MILITARY RESEARCHERS LOOK TO ENCOMPASS BIOLOGY from UPI ANAHEIM, Calif. (July 31, 2002 10:16 a.m. EDT) - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, long known for creating better machines and technology, now is reapplying itself in the biological sciences area, agency officials said at a conference Tuesday. Putting bio-science into action could enable soldiers to stay awake for days at a time without side effects, for example, said Michael Goldblatt, director of DARPA's Defense Sciences Office. The work, he said, is meant to address what many consider the biggest point of failure in today's defense systems - the human being. Human capabilities are fair game for augmentation, said DSO researcher Joseph Bielitzki. Sleep - and the consequences of a lack of it - constitute an obvious starting point for this work, he told the conference. Researchers are focusing on ways to reduce sleep needs and the effects of sleep deprivation, Bielitzki said. These methods include resetting or eliminating a person's body clock, allowing a portion of the brain to rest while the remainder continues to function, and even prompting the brain to produce additional connections between brain cells, he said. <http://www.nando.net/healthscience/story/483980p-3865527c.html> ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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