The stem cell revolution of medicine continues...

Stem cells used to create retinal tissue

Embryonic stem cells are capable of innately forming tissue structures without genetic alterations.

Ref.: Mototsugu Eiraku et al., Self-organizing optic-cup morphogenesis in three-dimensional culture, Nature, April 6, 2011

Lexmark 2011 - Colorjet printer with the ability to construct a building

Buildings Made with a Printer

A novel approach to design and construction could save materials and energy, and create unusually beautiful structures.

Thursday, April 7, 2011 By Kevin Bullis

Mining the moon

For some entrepreneurs, Moon is money

April 6, 2011

Source: For Some Entrepreneurs, Moon Is Money — Apr 4, 2011

Dr. Barney Pell, founder of Powerset, with his two co-founders, Naveen Jain (Infospace) and Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards have started a new company called Moon Express to develop a space vehicle that will in turn allow the company to tap into mineral resources on the lunar surface.

Moon Express describes itself as a “lunar transportation and data services company created to establish new avenues for commercial space activities beyond Earth orbit” and “will be sending a series of robotic spacecraft to the Moon for ongoing exploration and commercial development. Our big play is to develop a robotic lander to transport things to (and from) the moon,” Pell said.

“There is eventually going to be a moon rush, because there are a lot of resources on the moon that we will need,” said Pell. Resources like platinum and other metals that are needed for fuel cells and the post-fossil fuel economy. “In the future we want to be able to land the payloads and machines and bring things back,” said Pell. ”We want to be the last mile to the moon.”

Screw the guy dressed like a banana, this guy is definitely worthy of 'Fan of the Game'

A power-generator at (& in) your fingertips

First practical nanogenerator produces electricity with pinch of the fingers


After six years of intensive effort, scientists are reporting development of the first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip that can use body movements — a finger pinch now en route to a pulse beat in the future — to generate electricity. Speaking here today at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, they described boosting the device's power output by thousands times and its voltage by 150 times to finally move it out of the lab and toward everyday life.

Powering a home with a bottle of water, I'm sure the energy companies are excited about that...Not

Creating power from water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creating power from water. I bet when I say that you picture a dam or a large turbine being pushed by hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, all rushing at tremendous speeds. It is a cool, and accurate, image of how most power comes from water. That is not to say that it is the only way that power can come from water.

I'm so glad scientists take inspiration from Hollywood

Scientists plan to drill all the way down to the Earth's mantle


(PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as a mammoth undertaking, scientists, led by British co-chiefs, Dr Damon Teagle of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England and  Dr Benoit Ildefonse from Montpellier University in France, have announced jointly in an article in Nature that they intend to drill a hole through the Earth’s crust and into the mantle; a feat never before accomplished, much less seriously attempted.

Cleaning water using the power of the sun

Portable solar device creates potable water


(PhysOrg.com) -- By harnessing the power of the sun, a Monash University graduate has designed a simple, sustainable and affordable water-purification device, which has the potential to help eradicate disease and save lives.

Using the yard to power your home, closer to reality than you might think

‘Artificial leaf’ could power a home: MIT scientist

Scientists today claimed one of the milestones in the drive for sustainable energy — development of the first practical “artificial leaf.” Speaking at the 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, they described an advanced solar cell the size of a poker card that mimics photosynthesis.

Nanotechnology takes the fight to deadly bacteria

New Type of Drug Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Scientists hope bacteria won't develop resistance to nanoparticles that poke them open.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 By Katherine Bourzac

Self-experimentation...Everyone's doing it

Quantifying Your Sleep

A group of experimentalists who track various patterns about themselves investigate slumber.

• TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
• BY EMILY SINGER

You had me at all-you-can-eat-&-drink

4/7: Forks & Corks moves to Phoenix's Cityscape

www.azcentral.com

‎4/7: Forks & Corks moves to Phoenix's Cityscape, Forks & Corks moves culinary event to downtown Phoenix's CityScape.

Hold on, maybe Israel isn't such a bad-guy

Reconsidering the Goldstone Report 
on Israel and war crimes

By Richard Goldstone Published: April 1, 2011

"We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."

Gotta love a little Colbert action

amazing response to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=CD2LRROpph0

Convertible airplane just doesn't have a good ring to it

Boeing Urges Tests on 737s After More Cracks Are Found

By CHRISTINE HAUSER

Published: April 4, 2011

The Boeing Company said inspections should be extended after a hole ripped through the roof of a Southwest jet on Friday.

My dad was supposed to be on a SouthWest flight from Phoenix to Sacramento last night which was canceled because of plane changes. Just so happens that's the exact plane he would have taken a day later.

Roooneeeyyy...ManU pull off the comeback to increase their premiership lead

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team/_/id/360/manchester-united?cc=5901



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Utilizing bacteria to produce AND deliver drugs

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37242/?nlid=4296

Engineering bacteria to not only make drugs, but also to deliver them directly to the cells in the body that require them.

Finger-tip packs a powerful IT punch

Store data in your body without cyborg modification - tech - 01 April 2011 - New Scientist

How Stem Cells Are Changing the Way We Think About Disease

How Stem Cells Are Changing the Way We Think About Disease

If you don't know too much about stem cells, this TIME article gives you a good idea of where the technology is at now and how it can evolve to solve most medical problems.

Bonobos: Hippies of the jungle

Peaceful bonobos may have something to teach humans


Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, but we share one important similarity with one species of chimp, the common chimpanzee, that we don't share with the other, the bonobo. That similarity is violence. While humans and the common chimpanzee wage war and kill each other, bonobos do not. "There has never been a recorded case in captivity or in the wild of a bonobo killing another bonobo," notes anthropologist Brian Hare.