Information about several papers discussed at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) held at Chicago, Illinois on July 26 to 31, 2008 is presented. Topics include the development of new drugs that will treat memory loss problems and other symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The conference featured several neurologists and neuroscientists including Norman Relkin and Dennis Selkoe.
Information about the several papers discussed at the 2008 SciFoo is presented. Topics that were discussed ranged from the Large Hadron Collider to the neuroscience of the brain-machine interface. The annual 'unconference' was organized by "Nature," Tim O'Reilly and Google. The 2008 SciFoo's details and participants are at www.nature.com/scifoo.