NewScientist reports that Jon Vogel and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland have come up with a procedure that creates “patches of synthetic skin could deliver gene therapies to patients without the need for injections.”
As someone who doesn’t really love needles, this is a good sign for the future. [...]

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As many of you know, I am on the board of directors of H+. We re-worked some things with our blog recently, so you will see me posting and cross-posting between here and there more often.

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Here’s an informative article from h+ magazine on how the FDA currently argues that culturing adult stem cells amounts to the creation of a new drug. This of course would mean long time lags for getting stem cell procedures approved, which has prompted the creation of at least two groups: the American Stem Cell [...]

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And of course, once we can re-grow solidier’s limbs, we will also be able to do it for everyone.
From Wired:
“The first phase of the Pentagon’s plan to regrow soldiers’ limbs is complete; scientists managed to turn human skin into the equivalent of a blastema — a mass of undifferentiated cells that can develop into new [...]

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From rdmag:
Researchers at the UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, which can operate at extreme temperatures where no other artificial muscle can be used—from below the temperature of liquid nitrogen (-196°C) to above the melting point of iron (1538°C).
The discovery is reported in the March [...]

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My friend RU Sirius is the editor for this new magazine, and the website just went live. It’s a great collection of tech, science, and cultural trends that are changing humans and the world. And, if you are interested, you can see one of my articles in the inaugural issue.

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Thanks to everyone who voted for me! I’m looking forward to working with the entire H+ team to help take the organization to the next level in order to better accomplish the mission of promoting understanding, interest and participation in fields of emerging innovation that can radically benefit the human condition.
Here’s a listing of [...]

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