UK to regulate 'serious' genetic tests

FDA to regulate direct-to-consumer genetic tests.

began, genetic tests were available for about 100 diseases — most of them caused by just one faulty gene, such as the mutations that cause Tay-Sachs and cystic fi brosis. As genomic technologies matured and sequencing became less costly, companies began developing tests for a wider range of complex, multigenic, common diseases. These were initially offered by laboratories used by physicians, bu...

Serious allergic reactions following tuberculin skin tests.

UK atmospheric nuclear weapons tests

Exposure to radiation in all its forms is part of being alive. Ionising radiation is taken to mean radiation of high-enough energy to displace electrons from atoms and includes cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, alpha and beta radiation. The average level of exposure to natural background radiation varies throughout the world dependent mainly on the geology of the underlying earth. In the UK it i...

Differential Power Analysis: A Serious Threat to FPGA Security

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) implies measuring the supply current of a cipher-circuit in an attempt to uncover part of a cipher key. Cryptographic security gets compromised if the current waveforms obtained correlate with those from a hypothetical power model of the circuit. As FPGAs are becoming integral parts of embedded systems and increasingly popular for cryptographic applications and...

From being ontologically serious to serious ontology

The paper first argues that if one takes current fundamental physics seriously, one gets to a metaphysics of events and relations in contrast to substances and intrinsic properties. Against that background, the paper discusses Heil’s theory of properties being both categorical and dispositional and his rejection of levels of being. I contrast these views with a Humean metaphysics. My concluding...