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Let’s start with trail cameras. These are important for anyone who doesn’t want to sit in a tree stand for 8 hours a day. If you want to watch a trail, then you just buy a good trail camera and set it up. Then you just visit it as often as necessary to check on the pictures it is taking. It’s really that simple. Time-lapse photography and motion sensors do wonders. Throw in digital photography and you’re in a good place.

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Getting a blood test done would soon become cheap and matter of minutes, all thanks to a new “barcode chip” developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).A person only needs less than 10 minutes with just a pinprick’s worth of blood, and the chip can measure the concentrations of dozens of proteins, including those that herald the presence of diseases like cancer and heart disease, its creators claim.

Called the Integrated Blood-Barcode Chip, or IBBC, the device was developed by a group of Caltech researchers led by James R. Heath, the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor and professor of chemistry.

An IBBC, is about the size of a microscope slide and is made out of a glass substrate covered with silicone rubber. The chip’s surface is moulded to contain a microfluidics circuit–a system of microscopic channels through which the pinprick of blood is introduced, protein-rich blood plasma is separated from whole blood, and a panel of protein biomarkers is measured from the plasma.

The chip offers a significant improvement over the cost and speed of standard laboratory tests to analyse proteins in the blood.

In traditional tests, one or more vials of blood are removed from a patient’s arm and taken to a laboratory, where the blood is centrifuged to separate whole blood cells from the plasma. The plasma is then assayed for specific proteins.

“We wanted to dramatically lower the cost of such measurements, by orders of magnitude. We measure many proteins for the cost of one. Furthermore, if you reduce the time it takes for the test, the test is cheaper, since time is money. With our barcode chip, we can go from pinprick to results in less than 10 minutes,” Nature quoted him as saying.

A single chip can simultaneously test the blood from eight patients, and each test measures many proteins at once.

“We are aiming to measure 100 proteins per fingerprick within a year or so. It’s a pretty enabling technology,” said Heath.

In order to perform the assay, a drop of blood is added to the IBBC’s inlet, and then a slight pressure is applied, which forces the blood through a channel. As the blood flows, plasma is skimmed into narrow channels that branch off from the main channel. This part of the chip is designed as if it were a network of resistors, which optimizes plasma separation.

The plasma then flows across the “barcodes,” which consist of a series of lines, each 20 micrometers across and patterned with a different antibody that allows it to capture a specific protein from the plasma passing over.

When the barcode is “developed,” the individual bars emit a red fluorescent glow, whose brightness depends upon the amount of protein captured.

In the study, the researchers used the chip to measure variations in the concentration of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the hormone produced during pregnancy.

“The concentration of this protein increases by about 100,000-fold as a woman goes through the pregnancy cycle, and we wanted to show that we could capture that whole concentration range through a single test,” said Heath.

The barcode chip was also used to analyse the blood of breast and prostate cancer patients for a number of proteins that serve as biomarkers for disease.

The proteins can also change as a patient receives therapy. Thus, determining these biomarker profiles can allow doctors to create individualized treatment plans for their patients and improve outcomes.

The ease and the speed with which results can be obtained using the IBBC also will potentially allow doctors to assess their patients’ responses to drugs and to monitor how those responses evolve with time.

“As personalized medicine develops, measurements of large panels of protein biomarkers are going to become important, but they are also going to have to be done very cheaply. It is our hope that these IBBCs will enable such inexpensive and multiplexed measurements,” said Heath.

The study is described in a paper in the advance online edition of Nature Biotechnology.

Isolated towns in southern Brazil appealed for medicine and other supplies on Tuesday as the deaths from landslides rose to 84 and thousands of people remained cut off from aid, clean water and power.Days of heavy rain have devastated areas of Santa Catarina state, the heartland of German and Italian immigrants in Brazil, burying houses and their residents in rivers of mud, collapsing roads and forcing more than 54,000 people out of their homes.

Another 30 people were missing and eight areas remained completely cut off, the civil defense agency said, as medicine, food, and other basic supplies began to arrive from the federal government and neighboring states.

“We had a tsunami of clay, mud and trees,” seamstress Josiane Malmann told Globo TV after being rescued by helicopter with a group of 200 people who were trapped in Ilhota.

“Many people and children died … The hills all fell in an avalanche.”

Five hundred soldiers were sent to Blumenau, famous for its annual Oktoberfest beer festival, where 13 people were killed by landslides and drinking water was expected to be cut off until Friday. Blumenau was the town with the worst death toll so far, of 20.

“Mattresses, food, blankets — these are the main necessities we need to look after our displaced people,” said Joao Paulo Kleinubing, the town mayor.

“There is still a risk of landslides if it rains again so we are telling people in risky areas to leave their houses and seek shelter.”

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has offered all available federal help to the state, one of Brazil’s wealthiest, and sent several ministers to the affected areas to assess their needs on Tuesday.

The civil defense agency said that 14,500 gallons (55,000 liters) of drinking water had been distributed but appealed for more donations of water as the most urgent priority.

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Blumenau was one of five towns to declare a state of emergency in the Itajai valley, the worst affected area in the state whose main river rose 36 feet and swept away its banks.

The state government said the floods and mudslides had affected 1.5 million people, leaving about 150,000 without electricity.

Rescue workers and army troops were using helicopters and motor boats to reach stranded residents, with transport in the state paralyzed as many main roads were cut off.

“Not even tractors can reach these areas because they sink, so access is only possible with aircraft,” said Major Marcio Alves, a coordinator with the Civil Defense agency.Television footage showed hillsides breaking away and sliding into rivers of mud, while another mudslide destroyed a house in seconds. A lane of one main road was shown collapsed after its earth foundations crumbled.

Almost all the deaths were caused by landslides.

“My son is lost, we don’t know whether he’s alive or dead,” one man, identified as Mario, told Globo News before breaking down in sobs.

The floods also shut down a branch of a pipeline carrying natural gas from Bolivia to Brazil on Monday, cutting off supplies to Santa Catarina and neighboring Rio Grande do Sul state, the company that operates the line said.

The first deaths were reported on Saturday after two days of heavy downpours and weeks of steady rain.

The Latin American country is in spring season when rains in the southern part of the country are at their heaviest.

Owais Shah, a member of the visiting England ODI team and also a part of their Test squad, was today named in the Middlesex side for the Twenty20 Champions League cricket tournament.

Shah, though, is yet to be given the clearance by the England and Wales Cricket Board to play in the Twenty20 competition.

Middlesex`s other national team player Andrew Strauss has not been named been named for the championship.

Shaun Udal will lead the English T20 champions which also boasts of Indian left-arm spinner Murali Kartik.

Pakistan`s domestic Twenty20 champions Sialkot Stallions too announced their squad to be led by national team skipper Shoaib Malik.

The squads:

Middlesex Crusaders: Shaun Udal (captain), Alan Richardson, Benjamin Scott, Billy Godleman, David Nash, Dawid Malan, Edmund Joyce, Eoin Morgan, Gareth Berg, Murali Kartik, Nick Compton, Owais Shah, Steven Finn, Timothy Murtagh, Tyron Henderson.

Siakot Stallions: Shoaib Malik (captain), Abdul Rehman, Adeel Malik, Ali Khan, Bilal Hussain, Faisal Naveed, Kashif Raza, Kamran Younas, Mansoor Amjad, Muhammad Ayub Muhammad Ali, N Qazi, Qaisar Abbas, Sarfraz Ahmad, Shakeel Ansar.

Higher-protein meals may help overweight and obese people burn more fat, the results of a small study suggest. Research has shown that overweight people are less efficient at burning fat after a meal than thinner people are. In the new study, Australian researchers looked at whether the protein composition of a meal affects that weight-related gap.

They found that overweight men and women burned more post-meal fat when they ate a high-protein breakfast and lunch than when they had lower-protein meals. That is, the added protein seemed to modify the fat-burning deficit seen in heavy individuals.

“Our research suggests that people with higher body fat burn fat better after a high-protein meal than people with lower levels of body fat,” lead researcher Dr. Marijka Batterham, of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales told Reuters Health.

A number of studies have suggested that high-protein diets may help people shed weight more easily — possibly, in part, because protein suppresses appetite better than fat or carbohydrates do.

The current study did not look at weight loss, so it’s not possible to tell whether the increased fat-burning seen in overweight participants would translate into fewer pounds over time, Batterham said.

But answering that question, she said, will be the next step.

The findings, published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics, are based on 18 adults whose post-meal metabolism was tested on 3 separate days. The average age was 40 years, eight subjects were overweight, six subjects had a normal weight, and four were obese.

On day one, they were given a “control” breakfast and lunch composed of 58 percent carbohydrates and 14 percent protein. On the other 2 days, their meals were more balanced, with about one third of calories coming from protein and another third from carbohydrates.

In the 8 hours after the control meal, the investigators found that overweight and obese participants burned less fat than their thinner counterparts did. But that gap was closed when participants ate the higher-protein meals.

The protein-rich meals contained low-fat dairy, lean meat and eggs, along with bread and vegetables as carbohydrate sources. Batterham said she and her colleagues are now testing whether vegetarian sources of protein have similar effects on overweight adults’ fat metabolism.

In general, experts recommend that people looking to bulk up the protein in their diets choose their sources carefully — eschewing bacon and butter in favor of foods like fish, poultry, low-fat dairy, beans and nuts.

Known for her offbeat depictions on silver screen the Indian-born Canadian ace film director and screenwriter Deepa Mehta is upbeat about her latest creation Rang Rasiya, a movie based on the life of renowned Indian painter Raja Ravi Verma. Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda plays the painter while Nandana Sen portrays the character of Sugandha, his muse. The film also has veteran actors like Paresh Rawal, Tom Alter and Deepti Naval.

Commuting within the city may no longer involve long traffic jams, for researchers have developed a software that can turn cell phones into traffic trackers.The research team from University of California, Berkeley, worked in collaboration with experts at Nokia to develop the software that collects GPS data from mobile phones in moving vehicles, and creates traffic maps.

These traffic maps can be accessed through Internet or sent to the cellphone to provide local traffic analysis, reports New Scientist.

This software could be downloaded free from the Internet.

Alex Bayen at UC Berkeley said that if enough people download the free software, the system should help relieve congestion, even on small intercity roads.

Bayen ensured that the software could not be misused for the system anonymises GPS data and it will be impossible to track individual cars.

Sometime back, shopping malls packed with a lot of people are running empty due to global slow down.

For property owners, the loss of tenants means more than a reduction in the revenue that is collected from rents.

If one store closes, customers are less attracted to the center overall, and the losses can snowball.

Business is so bad that an increasing number of retailers are calling it quits — without waiting to see whether money can be made as the Christmas season gets underway.

In most economically slow years, large retailers can cover for a Christmas shortfall with loans from their longtime lenders.

But the credit crunch is keeping bankers on the sidelines, and even big players are having trouble getting the financial help they need.