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Medicine

Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells 103

Posted by samzenpus from the just-add-oxygen dept.
kkleiner writes "Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital in Florence have successfully transplanted a trachea into a 10 year old boy using his own stem cells. A donor trachea was taken, stripped of its cells into a collagen-like scaffold, and then infused with the boy's stem cells. The trachea was surgically placed into the boy and allowed to develop in place. Because his own cells were used, there was little to no risk of rejection. This was the first time a child had received such a stem cell augmented transplant and the first time that a complete trachea had been used."
Earth

Breaking the Squid Barrier 126

Posted by timothy from the calimari-for-the-5000 dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."
Moon

Unambiguous Evidence of Water On the Moon 251

Posted by samzenpus from the water-and-cheese dept.
Nethemas the Great writes "Information has leaked ahead of the scheduled NASA press conference tomorrow that we have found unambiguous evidence for water on the moon. From the article, 'Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.'"

Comment Re:HIPAA - SHMIPAA (Score 1) 319

by a1ok (#29471547) Attached to: Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records

Not disputing your point about other additives being the main problem - I don't smoke, and neither do I know much about cigarette carcinogens - but if
1) practically all cigarettes contain nicotine
2) non-cigarette use of nicotine is extremely rare
3) it is far easier to test for than whatever actual crap is there in the cig.

then it still makes sense imho to test for nicotine as a simpler way to indirectly test for smoking.

Comment Re:Contracts aren't what they used to be... (Score 1) 300

by a1ok (#28867835) Attached to: Antitrust Pressure Mounts For Wireless Providers

You might want to look at prepaid, no $10 plans but there is a new $30 plan with 1000 mins/1000sms/30mb (Straight Talk) from TracFone and supposedly Page Plus will have a $20 plan with 500mins/sms sometime next month. I'm seriously considering both, or even if I wanted to continue paying around $47/mo. which is my current bill for T-Mobile ... I may instead switch to Boost with $50 unlimited everything, that way I get to browse & use SMS too for the same cost. My current (postpaid) plan is just 1000 mins, no incl. sms or web ... I was thinking of getting another contract and picking up an Android phone, but it makes more sense to cut my bill to ~ $25 with PP (assuming some taxes) and just pick up whichever phone I want for full price.
Networking

NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet 109

Posted by kdawson from the here-hold-this dept.
hcg50a writes "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The store-and-forward protocol was designed by NASA in consultation with Vint Cerf. Here's a discussion from last July before the test began."
Education

How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? 531

Posted by kdawson from the just-promise-you-won't-introduce-them-to-basic dept.
Tsunayoshi writes "My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company. I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"

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