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...already existing cells to create more practical solutions - for replacing everything from diseased heart muscle to worn out cartilage and failing kidney cells. "Every cell in your body is programmed to do a job, and our job is to put these cells in the right environment in the lab so they know what to do," he says. "To us, it doesn't matter where the cell comes from - whether it's a bladder cell or a blood cell or an adult stem cell - we use whatever cell gets the job done...
Things in Dr. Anthony Atala's lab at Wake Forest University are not always what they seem. On one lab bench, surrounded by gutted printer cartridges, lie the inner workings of an inkjet printer. But this isn't the scene of some document-printing job gone awry. Instead, the printer has been jury-rigged to handle something much more extraordinary than ink - it now sprays tiny living cells into the three-dimensional forms of human organs...
...wall.” Entering into a ninja noodle war wasn’t easy. “Everyone has their own training regimen,” Mih says. His secret? Canned vegetables. After gorging on the fiber-filled veggies, he copes with the aftermath in the lab he works in. “There’s an air mattress. I kind of lay there for a while.” For those interested in super-eating but fear the health risks, don’t fret. Mih assures us, “There’s always...
...Idea of Professor Negroponte - co-founder in 1985 of MIT's influential Media Lab - is the development and distribution of a high-quality, low-cost laptop to potentially hundreds of millions of children throughout the developing world...
...before we laugh it off, we must admit that there is something fundamentally unsettling about the idea of Hell. Even in Salem, the horror capital of Massachusetts, the most terrifying sight was not the man in the lab coat covered in body parts or any of the copious witches. It was a group of four Christians from Repent America, equipped with signs, megaphone, and fliers, out to warn us that, according to the words of Saint Paul emblazoned on one of their signs, “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous...