Stem Cells without Side Effects

Researchers have created healthy stem cells from adult cells--no embryo required.

Last year, researchers announced one of the most promising methods yet for creating ethically neutral stem cells: reprogramming adult human cells to act like embryonic stem cells. That process involved using a retrovirus, but now scientists have found a way to effect the same reprogramming without using a harmful virus--a method that paves the way for tissue transplants made from a patient's own cells.

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Project 10 to the 100th

Project 10¹⁰⁰ (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Organized by Google, anyone can submit an idea that can change the world by October 20, 2008. After the voting period, 5 ideas will be selected and a total of 10 million is committed by Google to jump start these ideas.

www.project10tothe100.com

Awaiting the Google Phone

In New York next week, Google and T-Mobile will unveil the long-awaited Google Phone. The device, made by the Taiwanese cell-phone company HTC, is expected to have a large touch screen, a QWERTY keypad, and a 3.1-megapixel camera, among other features. More significant than the gadget itself, however, is the software that it contains: a cell-phone operating system developed by Google called Android.

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Idea paint

A new kind of paint makes your meeting room walls a white-board that you can draw and erase.




See www.ideapaint.com

Google Chrome

Google is planning to launch a webbrowser called Google Chrome that will rival Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox. Here's some background information and new features of Google's Chrome: Google Chrome comic book.

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