Paul Tetlock, an associate professor at ColumbiaUniversity who didresearch that was used tocreate the news algorithms, worries thattechnologyhasskewed the playing field.
If the light were not infrared but were instead in the visible spectrum, there was enough of it that the naked eye could have seen a glow, according to Phaedon Avouris , manager of nanometer scale science and technology at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, N.
The usefulness of this technology will depend on the stem cell research of companies like Geron gern (nasdaq: gern - news - people), which would allow the creation of new organ tissues from the patients' own existing cells.