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Organ Printing
Tissue-engineering.net: Organ Printing:
An interesting new approach of Tissue Engineering was reported by US scientists(1):
Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D soft organs remains a big challenge.Tissue Engineers, as well as doctors and their patients, do not have the luxury to wait years until engineered tissues and organs become morphologically, biochemically, mechanically and functionally differentiated. Existing tissue technologies do not enable rapid assembling of tissues and organs.
Organ printing, which the scientists define as computer-aided, jet-based 3D Tissue Engineering of living human organs, offers a possible solution…
WYTM is part of Ian Grigg’s SSL Considered Harmful rant collection. His point is that SSL’s assumptions (that "man in the middle" attacks are a threat, but the client and server are secure) are wrong: clients and servers are constantly port-scanned, hacked and infected with viruses, while what’s sent over the line is pretty much unmolested.
Except he says it much better.
(Link via Kevin Marks)
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Sortable DHTML tables
A cool demo showing how to use unobtrusive DHTML to
Make all your tables sortable.
I thought about something like this after seeing some DOM demos and working with a CGI that let you sort tables by columns, but didn’t quite apply enough effort to do figure out how this should be done.
All things come to he who waits…
One interesting point I note from the code is that when you append an existing node to a list of DOM nodes, the API call (appendChild) checks if the node already exists in the list and if it does, removes it before appending it. This makes reordering the list much simpler than I thought it would be.