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Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice 284

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 26, 2009 @04:57PM from the finally-tim-can-reproduce dept.

InfiniteZero writes "According to this WSJ story, 'Two teams of Chinese researchers working separately have reprogrammed mature skin cells of mice to an embryonic-like state and used the resulting cells to create live mouse offspring. The reprogramming may bring scientists one step closer to creating medically useful stem-cell lines for treating human disease without having to resort to controversial laboratory techniques. However, the advance poses fresh ethical challenges because the results could make it easier to create human clones and babies with specific genetic traits.'"

Comment JMP (Score 1) 180

by Pedro Picasso on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @04:31AM (#26526523) Attached to: Visualizing Complex Data Sets?

There's a product called JMP. It's relatively inexpensive. It's great at visualizing (especially statistical) data. They've got a 30-day trial. Check it out.

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disclosure: I have an association JMP's parent company.

Valve Takes on Piracy With Free, Pre-Packaged Game Publishing Tools 190

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @05:48PM from the stamping-out-the-bad-stuff dept.

Heartless Gamer writes "Valve is rocking the boat in a big way, especially for PC gaming piracy. They have just announced the release of a complete collection of publisher tools, called Steamworks. They're making it available to developers and publishers completely free. Valve notes that beyond simply making the product available to consumers some of the tools can integrate copy protection, social networking services, or even server browsing features into a developing game."

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