Regenerative Medicine : Hands, Bladders, Ears, Bones, Trachea, Muscle, Organs,

April 2008, Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) gave $42.5 million over five years to Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Wake Forest and its partners are adding $150 million for nearly $200 million. A second consortium with another $42.5 million will be managed by Rutgers and the Cleveland Clinic.Nature discusses the full soldier …

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Red Cameras: Modular, Upgradable, Breakthrough Resolution, the Future of Cameras

The Red Camera Company had already made digital video cameras that are better than 35 mm film cameras at one tenth the cost. The Red Camera Company had already made the Scarlet and Epic [Epic higher end] line of video cameras You are able upgrade EVERYTHING as technology advances. Every component, on an individual level, …

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Is the current US / World situation more like Mexico’s crisis of 1994-1998 ?

People have mostly been comparing the current crisis to the Japanese financial crisis and decade of economic stagnation. However there have been other foreign financial crisis that may be a closer parallel. All of the foreign financial crisis provide examples of what should be avoided. A series of direct support programs in Mexico to homeowners …

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Largest Semantic Map of English Language and AI decipher complex multigene relationships

Artificial intelligence is helping to accelerate and deepen our understanding of genetics and getting better at understanding our language. Cognition Technologies, a next-generation Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, has announced the release of the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language. The scope of Cognition’s Semantic Map is more than double the …

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Heartland Robotics : Low Cost Industrial Robots Revolution

Rodney Brooks, co-founder and CTO of iRobot, is leaving his iRobot post to found his own robotics company, Heartland Robotics. Heartland Robotics, based in Cambridge, Mass., will focus on the manufacture of industrial worker robots. “I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world’s labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost …

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Stem cells for Unlimited Blood Supply Could Provide the money for Stem Cell Life Extension

Advanced Cell Technology is the company behind the new stem cell blood breakthrough which could supply unlimited disease free blood. The company is only up 50% to a valuation of 6.7 million. Biotime is a related company Robert Lanza is the chief scientist behind Advanced Cell Technology and was featured in Discover Magazine. He is …

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Virgin Galactic shows off White Knight 2

WhiteKnightTwo is a dual-hull quad-engine aircraft roughly three times larger than the original WhiteKnight. WK2 is the world’s first all-composite full-sized aircraft. Everything apart from the engines and landing gear is constructed from ultra-lightweight composite materials. Virgin Galactic expects to fly its first commercial space flights somewhere between 2009 and 2011. Virgin galactic pictures The …

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Brad Templeton on Robocars : great minds think alike

This site had published an article one week ago about creating robotic car exclusive zones in cities to enable a faster deployment of robotic cars. Brad Templeton has written up several articles about the advantages of robotic cars for revamping the transportation system. Brad’s robocar mainpage. Brad looks at the myth of green public transit. …

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Very high temperature gas-cooled reactor could burn 65% of uranium

The US Department of Energy (DoE) is planning to build a very high temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR) at Idaho National Laboratory, with the prime objective of supplying heat at about 900°C. This heat could be used to generate electricity, or for other industrial processes such as hydrogen production or water desalination at a neighbouring facility. …

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High Calibre Batman Villains

Who are the Batman villains that would be good enough or capable of being adapted into villains suitable for Batman movies with the high quality of Dark Knight ? I agree with the Speculalist review that Dark Knight is a Godfather calibre movie Batman from the comics has a large collection of high quality villains. …

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Longer lasting and higher density flash could be made with CD/DVD material

The materials used in rewritable CDs and DVDs also show promise as electronic memories systems. They believe they could make 1 million read/write material (50-100 times longer than current flash) and with 4-20 times higher density than flash and faster writing times. New materials for flash could be more competitive and Numonyx must make their …

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