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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Sep 28, 2008
Sep 25, 2008
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
www.project10tothe100.com
Sep 19, 2008
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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Sep 17, 2008
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
See www.ideapaint.com
Sep 2, 2008
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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