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Submission + - Generating a Rat Pancreas in a Body of a Mouse (jst.go.jp)

Submitted by kazekiri on Monday September 06, 2010 @02:09AM

kazekiri writes: According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), in a project with Tokyo University, they have succeeded in generating a rat iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell)-derived pancreas in a body of a mouse(paper). The research team injected rat iPSC into mouse's fertilized egg with gene manipulation hindering the generation of pancreas, and implanted it in a uterus of a mouse, the foster mother. It has been confirmed that the pancreas of a born mouse is entirely made of rat iPSC, and the pancreas functions normally. This is a step towards achieving a goal of regenerative medicine to make human organs in bodies of other animals.

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Submission + - 1,500 Mens go to honeymoon with Virtual Girlfriend (wsj.com)

Submitted by kazekiri on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @11:26PM

kazekiri writes: According to the Wall Street Journal, more than 1,500 male fans of the Japanese dating-simulation game LovePlus+ have flocked to Atami for a romantic date with their videogame character girlfriends. This resort town, once popular with honeymooners, is turning to a new breed of romance seekers — virtual sweethearts.
This story is real. In the Japanese otaku or nerd culture, there's a tradition of calling characters My Wife(Ore no Yome).

Submission + - Let's learn Japanese from Anime/Manga characters (anime-manga.jp)

Submitted by kazekiri on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @07:38PM

kazekiri writes: A story about Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, an organization in Japan, launching a website called Japanese in Anime & Manga for Gaijin (non-Japanese) who love Japanese Anime/Manga has been a hot story in Slashdot Japan.
Many words used in lines of characters appearing in Japanese Manga are very different from standard Japanese . You can learn words that SchoolGirls & Samurai use on this site by quizzes. The lines are drawn from actual Manga, and the data is very abundant. By looking at Comments in Slashdot Japan, there are many people out there eagerly hoping for Gaijin who learned words from Anime to visit Japan.

This Is the Way the World Ends 394

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 08, 2008 @05:44AM from the several-bangs-several-whimpers dept.

Dave Knott writes "The CBC's weekly science radio show Quirks and Quarks this week features a countdown of the top ten planetary doomsday scenarios. Nine science professors and one science fiction author are asked to give (mostly) realistic hypotheses of the ways in which the planet Earth and its inhabitants can be destroyed. These possibilities for mankind's extinction include super-volcanoes, massive gamma ray bursts, and everybody's favorite, the killer asteroid. Perhaps the most terrifying prediction is the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field (combined with untimely solar activity), a periodic event which is currently 1/4 million years overdue."

Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone 115

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 29, 2008 @09:15AM from the there's-no-iphone-in-team dept.

mhm was one of many readers to note that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to the iPhone. "Planetbeing, one of the iPhone devteam members, has been working on porting Linux to the iPhone (along with a custom bootloader called OpeniBoot). Today they managed to boot the kernel! Video showing the boot process has been posted. Instructions and binaries are available on the project blog."

Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record 271

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 29, 2008 @12:11AM from the green-apple-get-it dept.

nandemoari writes "According to a recent advertisement airing on American TV, Apple's new Macbooks (well-received by most technology critics) are 'the world's greenest family of notebooks.' It seems an indication that the Cupertino-based company is increasingly aware of a consumer base that demands green electronics. However, Greenpeace is less than enthused with Apple's overall green performance. In their report (PDF), the environmentalists argue that Apple 'needs to commit to phasing out additional substances with timelines, improve its policy on chemicals and its reporting on chemicals management.'" Ars Technica points out that Greenpeace's research isn't quite up-to-snuff, and it's also worth noting that Greenpeace admitted to targeting Apple for the publicity in the past.

BBC Trust to Meet With OSC Over iPlayer 125

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 14, 2007 @10:09AM from the open-to-suggestions dept.

Virgil Tibbs writes "With the Launch of the BBC's iPlayer imminent, the BBC trust has agreed to hear the Open Source Consortium's concerns regarding the BBC iPlayer's tie in with Microsoft's software. The move by the BBC to use Windows Media DRM & their apparent lack of commitment towards other platforms has caused outrage in many circles and prompted several online petitions."

Submission + - VMware passed over for XenSource

Submitted by VirtualizationDork on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:05PM

VirtualizationDork writes: XenSource beats out VMware for Joots LLC web hosting. Why? "We could have shelled out for VMware, but it didn't seem that important," said Matthew Putegnat, Joots' chief information technology officer.

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Submission + - Xen beats out VMware

Submitted by slashplot on Monday March 12, 2007 @01:24PM

slashplot writes: A small web developer is virtualizing 60+ Red Hat and Debian instances on two servers running open-source Xen: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/o riginalContent/0,289142,sid94_gci1246944,00.html

Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial" 1165

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 12, 2007 @01:09PM from the marching-to-the-beat-of-a-different-thermometer dept.

Forrest Kyle writes "A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has received multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. '"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor. "I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal." Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...] recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."'"

PC Gaming's Future Evolution 51

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:58PM from the do-the-evolution-baby dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "1up.com is reporting on the GDC panel from last week entitled PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles. Unlike the usual doom and gloom about the 'death' of PC games, this panel suggested that the death is of PC games as we know them - PC gaming will evolve. They believe the future of gaming on the PC lies in strengths like persistent-world environments; not just as MMOs but anything that has elements of a persistent nature such as Battlefield 2142. They go on to describe the PC's greatest edge over consoles: user created content and the supportive game communities built around it. The article also cited the panel's views on the weaknesses inherent in consoles' closed networks and content control."

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