it’s difficult to build new blood vessels throughout the rebuilt skin, but vasculature is required to keep the skin alive. This is especially problematic for victims of severe burns. A new customized sugary gel substance can work wonders to re-grow skin and the associated blood vessels, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
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GPS Satellite NASA via Wikimedia
Were America’s NavSat handlers perhaps feeling slighted when it was revealed that the new Apple iPhone 4S would augment its existing GPS coverage with Russia’s GLONASS constellation? The U.S. is getting ready to launch a new generation of Global Positioning System satellites starting in 2014–part of a $5.5 billion upgrade–and [...]
Chimpanzee Chi King via Flickr
Chimpanzees are only necessary as research subjects in a very limited number of cases, according to an expert committee convened by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences. And the apes’ future use as lab animals
Neanderthal Hermann Schaaffhausen
Till now, we’ve had to rely on guesswork based on our officemates’ forehead bulges, receding chins, and subliterate grunts to gauge how much Neanderthal is in their ancestry. No more! 23andMe, the popular personal genomics company that analyzes your DNA based on a saliva sample, has added a test for Neanderthal [...]
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When it comes to the most personal files, it can be hard to trust the cloud. The USB dongle provides secure access to a computer’s hard drive from any machine with a Web connection. Users plug half of the into a primary computer and set a password. Connecting the other half to another [...]
It’s been two weeks since the CarrierIQ story caught the eye of Senator Al Franken, who swiftly put his fist down and began demanding answers from the companies that admitted to allowing the tracking software on their handsets, as well as CarrierIQ itself. The deadline for the companies to respond is over for all but [...]
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