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Feed Reversing Cancer Cells To Normal Cells (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday April 29, 2007 @12:12PM

A Northwestern University scientist describes new research that used an innovative experimental approach to provide unique insights into how scientists can change human metastatic melanoma cells back to normal-like skin cells -- by exposing the tumor cells to the embryonic microenvironment of human embryonic stem cells, the zebra fish and the chick embryo.

Submission + - South Korea plans to guard border with robots

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28, 2007 @09:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/fea ture-5-future-military-technologies Samsung has partnered with Korea University to develop a machine-gun equipped sentry robot, which consists of "two cameras: one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans/trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun."

Submission + - RIAA wants DRM on webcasts too

Submitted by

rec9140

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @09:33PM

rec9140 writes: "Bluebeat wants to beat down the digital absconders who capture streaming audio streams and wants to add their X1 tehcnoology player to webcasts .... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/Apri l/28/style/stories/09style.htn"

Feed The Earth's Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Saturday April 28, 2007 @06:13PM

During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. Cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice versa. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Submission + - Korea launches a switch to open source

Submitted by on Thursday April 12, 2007 @10:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organizations and universities in South Korea will replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the country's Ministry of Information and Communication.

Twenty percent of desktop software and 30 percent of server software will be changed to open source by 2007, said a representative from the Ministry of Information and Communication.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5084811.html

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