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This eyewear, developed by M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory, has a tiny name-storage device that picks up the identification signal cell phones emit and then searches its database to see if a name matches. A miniprojector on the stem flashes the name of the friend or relative encountered on the glass lens for one two-hundredth of a second--so fast it isn't noticeable, yet lab tests have shown the subliminal prompt is enough to improve name recall by 50%. In the prototype, wearers must carry a battery wired to the glasses, but eventually a wireless system will...
...findings are certainly exciting - these stem cells could form the basis of new heart therapies, and could become a source of healthy, replacement cells for heart tissue damaged after a heart attack or by heart disease. But they represent only the first step in what will be a long road. First, the studies were conducted in mice and rats, and while these animals can serve as a template for understanding how heart cells develop, any stem cell-based therapies that come out of them will have to go through more testing in larger mammals before doctors can even begin...
...even if the heart is created from these master stem cells, scientists still have to master the process of recreating the normal development of heart tissue in the lab. They have to understand the delicate and perfectly timed steps involved in coaxing some stem cells to develop into heart blood vessels, while guiding others on the path to becoming the steadily beating heart muscle that methodically pumps blood to the entire human body...
...What these findings do promise, however, is the possibility of developing heart-based therapies without the need for using embryonic stem cells - a welcome prospect for researchers in the U.S. who are restricted from working with these cells unless they secure private, non-government funding...
...Democrat on the panel in order to maintain a traditional rotation in the spot. But Democratic insiders say her motivation is far more personal - as was Pelosi's support of Murtha against her nemesis of several years, incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Harman defenders say Pelosi's complaints either stem from an unworthy catfight among leading California congresswomen; Harman's close relationship with Hoyer; or Harman's efforts to seem bipartisan on controversial issues such as the Administration's controversial domestic warrantless wiretapping - when Pelosi wanted a Democratic pit bull in the party's top intelligence post...