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...white blood cells). Each construct is hunkered inside an individual well where the blood cells mingle with the faux tissue. As the blood cells get cozy, they flourish, and a teensy, homegrown, fully functioning human immune system is born. Up to 96 wells, enough for 96 individual immune systems, fit on a plate roughly the size of a deck of cards. From here, the next step is to toss a vaccine into the mix and watch the action unfold. (MIMIC uses skin-like constructs, since cuts and open sores on the skin are a natural entry point for many viruses...
Sanjay Gupta's Fit Nation series airs on House Call on CNN, Saturdays and Sundays...
...serious capability at all. The most recent parliamentary audit of German preparedness, for example, found problems ranging from a lack of spare parts for armored vehicles to uniforms that are insufficiently camouflaged. German soldiers have taken to buying their own gun holsters because the army-issue variety do not fit properly under their bullet-proof vests. German helicopters, according to a source at the International Security Assistance Force (NATO's military arm in Afghanistan), can't fly at night because they do not have the required navigation equipment. "They are fundamentally good helicopters," says the ISAF source, "but they...
Ultra-Compact Computer Weighing in at only 1 lb., OQO's latest PC is the world's smallest Windows Vista--capable computer, with a blazing processor to boot. The device is small enough to fit in your hand--and boasts wireless Web access. Not so small price...
...Republican revolutionaries seemed to lose their zeal for shrinking the federal government once they controlled it, which is one reason voters expelled them from power in 2006. And these days, it's usually Democrats who call for a humbler foreign policy. Paul's leave-us-alone libertarianism hasn't fit in with a party anxious to read our e-mail, improve our values, assert American power abroad and subsidize friendly industries at home. The party's recent mix of "national greatness" neoconservatives, evangelical theoconservatives and K Street careerists has had many goals, but leaving people alone hasn't been...