By Bill Clayton

• Gas Embolotherapy -- A Revolutionary Approach to Cancer Treatment
  A novel gas embolotherapy method might be the key to treating tumors by occluding blood flow to them and, secondarily, by the delivery of drugs. (More…)
  
• MSigns -- 3D Virtual Sign-Language Translation
  What might make life easier for people who rely on sign language to communicate? A technology that would "listen" to speech and translate it into sign language that a person could see - in 3D, in real time - on a handheld computer. (More…)
  
• Real-Time Control of Inflatable Dams -- A New Technology to Alleviate the Effects of Levee Failures
  Taller, stronger levees could have saved New Orleans, but such levees have become too expensive to maintain adequately or to rebuild. The best answer might be inflatable dams with real-time controls - a novel technology that has the potential to mitigate flooding and possibly prevent the collapse of levees altogether. (More…)
  
• Advanced Fuel Research - Developing Energy Technologies for the 21st Century
  A number of barriers have stymied energy researchers and industry. But the breakthrough might be the development of synthetic-liquid transportation fuels derived from a variety of sources, such as coal or biomass (vegetation and agricultural waste). (More…)
  
• Self-signal Amplifying Molecular Biosensor -- The Detection of Potentially Harmful Agents at a Cellular Level
  Identifying cellular aberrations long before cancer and other life-threatening diseases could develop would be tremendously helpful in saving lives. A self-signal amplifying molecular biosensor can do exactly that. (More…)