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Comment Re:Bravo to catching him alive (Score 5, Funny) 773

...But, rest assured the LAPD would have burned the boat to the ground.

After shooting up the neighborhood, killing some random families dog, busting in on the wrong house and bitch slapping a mother while her child watches, accidentally setting fire to the house and reniggin on the reward.

Submission + - Memory Effect Also Discovered in Lithium-ion Batteries (phys.org)

Submitted by rwise2112
rwise2112 writes: Lithium-ion batteries have long been thought to be free of the memory effects of other rechargable batteries. However, this appears to be not the case. Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, together with colleagues from the Toyota Research Laboratories in Japan have now however discovered that a widely-used type of lithium-ion battery has a memory effect.

Submission + - Lab-grown kidneys transplanted into rats (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes: Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have fitted rats with kidneys that were grown in a lab from stripped-down kidney scaffolds. When transplanted, these 'bioengineered' organs starting filtering the rodents’ blood and making urine.
The team, led by organ-regeneration specialist Harald Ott, started with the kidneys of recently deceased rats and used detergent to strip away the cells, leaving behind the underlying scaffold of connective tissues such as the structural components of blood vessels. They then regenerated the organ by seeding this scaffold with two cell types: human umbilical-vein cells to line the blood vessels, and kidney cells from newborn rats to produce the other tissues that make up the organ (paper).

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