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Aussie Scientists Are Hard At Work Growing Bigger Boobs
1:40PM Sean Fallon | Even though there are benefits to artificial enhancement, sometimes “natural” is the way to go. Imagine if plastic surgeons could grow boobs instead of relying on traditional implants? It could happen sooner than you think. More »
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Mimic BioShock’s Body-Mod Splicing With EVE Hypodermic Needles
8:06AM Jason Chen | The world of BioShock shows what one tremendously interesting direction of hacking your body will be like. Imagine injecting yourself with flame-throwing or electric-throwing inducing stem cells and you’ll get the picture. Now you can pretend with props! More »
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Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
2:00PM Wilson Rothman | Baby Gets Hit By Train, Strolls Away…There’s a Hole In My Heart That Can Only Be Filled By—Stem Cells?…Beware Bobbies Bearing BlackBerries…Science Figures Out Why We Break Out Bubbly More »
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Your Great Great Great Grandkids Might Heal Like Wolverine
3:30PM Rosa Golijan | It sounds straight out of a comic book: Scientists have figured out a way to inject gene-carrying nanoparticles into stem cells in order to make wounds heal faster. I’d get my superheroine costume ready if the method wasn’t potentially cancer-causing. More »
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Forget Dentures, Grow New Teeth In 50 Days
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | I thought this mousey was chewing gum, but it turns out that green lump in its mouth is a fully-functional, bioengineered tooth, the result of “tooth regenerative therapy” research at Tokyo University (of the ear-pulling navigation system fame). More »
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Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells. More »
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Beijing Clinic Using Stem Cells as Eternal Youth Beauty Treatment
6:00PM Elaine Chow | While we debate the morality of stem cell usage here, China’s gone ahead and started marketing it as a beauty product. A Beijing medical centre is offering “age-reversing” stem cell therapy for your face. More »
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Japanese Researchers Make First Brain Tissues From Stem Cells
12:05PM Gizmodo US Edition | Michael J. Fox and other sufferers of degenerative neurological diseases rejoice! Japanese scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken have created the first functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, the first step in curing everything from strokes to multiple sclerosis to paralysis. Even better, there may be a chance that these tissues could come from non-embryonic stem cells, which means its research could possibly be continued in the U.S. as well. More »
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Doctors Using Pig Powder to Regrow a Soldier’s Finger
5:20AM Adam Frucci | While the report of pig bladder powder growing back a man’s finger might have been a wee bit exaggerated and/or fabricated, the science behind it is sound. In fact, doctors in Texas are using a pig-based powder, dubbed “Pixie Dust,” to try to grow back a soldier’s finger. More »
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