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Comment Re:Housing, Nursery, or a Zoo? (Score 1) 990

We probably have to determine how intelligent they are in the first place, if it turns out they are smart and learn similar to how we do or to the extent we can that would be very interesting. If it turns out their smart but threw very different means that would be very interesting to. I mean if we can get one, find we are able to teach and eventually communicate with... Just studding that brain threw non invasive ways, alive and in thought will probably greatly excel our understanding of how and why a brains do what they do. Morally or even just the list of consequences of doing that brings up a lot of I'm not sure we should actually be doing such a thing.
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Building Artificial Bone 78

Late-Eight writes "Researchers from the National University of Singapore, have recently developed a new way to make artificial bone from mineralised collagen. For some time scientists have tried to make nanosized artificial bone materials using various methods, And have recently turned their attention to mineralised collagen, a nanoapatite/collagen composite. This material is highly biocompatible and has the nanostructure of artificial bone. It could be used in bone grafts and bone-tissue engineering, among other applications."

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