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Comment Re:Give me good services (Score 2) 369

If the music industry had a simple way to buy rights to songs, etc., people would probably even pay to use that in youtube videos they make, etc. As it stands now, you use one service to find out all 2-5 services you need to get a hold of, then use those 2-5 services to determine all of the fees you have to pay. Ridiculous. The music industry is sometimes as backwards as the Patent and Trademark Office of the US.

Submission + - Who Wants My iPad? (reduxonline.com)

Frankenshteen writes: "What the iPad has done is realise what I REALLY, REALLY want." Short and to the point — not the game changer he was hoping for — but managed to refine expectations. Still; tablets/pads are just bridging the gap 'till the eyeglasses/gloves/hip cpu become widely available.
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"Normal" Prions May Protect Myelin 81

thomst writes "Nature Neuroscience just published an online article about the function of 'normal' prions in protecting myelin, the substance that sheathes and protects sensory and motor nerves. The international study (which has 11 authors) concluded that 'normal' (i.e., not mis-folded) prions may form a protective coat around myelin. The researchers found that Prnp -/- mice (mice with the gene for prions knocked out) consistently developed progressive demyelination, inevitably leading to persistent polyneuropathy by 60 weeks of age. Their data suggest that damage to myelin sheaths cause normal prions to cleave, and the resulting prion fragments activate Schwann cells, which are known to play a part in myelin repair. This research might eventually lead to possible treatments for progressive polyneuropathies in humans, including those mediated by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and even diabetes."

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