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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…

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“Elvis has left the building”

The Straight Dope: “Elvis has left the building.” Who said it first? (The answer is in the link, doh).

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Warrior Queen Burial

Warrior queen is unearthed:

A 1,500-year-old Anglo-Saxon “warrior queen” has been found buried just two feet under the surface of a county field.

Lincolnshire’s own 6ft tall “Boadicea” has been described as one of the best Anglo-Saxon finds of its kind in the county.

She was still holding her shield and had a dagger at her side when she was found. On either side of her at the site just outside Lincoln were the remains of a man and a woman who were possibly her attendants.

The woman was wearing an amber necklace and had her feet bound together with rope. The male companion was buried with his hand over a pot.

[ via Cronaca, pointed to by Celsius1414 ].

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Replicant Politicians

A San Francisco magazine administers the Voight-Kampff Test to see if six mayoral candidates are human or replicant. (via diepunyhumans)

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Optical Illusions

Optical illusions to mess with your head, via
Boing Boing. Steps towards the Langford Mind-Erasing Fractal Basilisk?