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Mazda Receives Japan's First Human Rights Merit Award

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2008-02-25 09:09:51 by HASH0x8c95de4 in Fareastgizmos.com
Mazda has been honored with the Human Rights Merit Award by Japans Ministry of Justice and the National Federation of Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners. The award was established in fiscal year (FY) 2006 to recognize significant achievements in the field of human rights protection by an individual or an organization. The...
 
Tags: human rights, human rights committee, respect, respect human rights, human rights protection, human rights philosophy, philosophy, mazda, human rights symposiums
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Reprogram Human Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells

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2008-02-12 19:07:42 by Michael in Medgadget
Kathrin Plath, William Lowry, et al from UCLA's stem cell research center reprogrammed human skin cells into a state that is very similar to the one that embryonic stem cells exist in. In their paper, published in the latest early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences , the scientists confirm the work of...
 
Tags: stem cells, embryonic stem cells, cells, adult stem cells, develop stem cells, human ips cells, ips cells, pluripotent stem cells, beta islet cells
 
 
 
 
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Human Car: Would You Drive it?

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2008-01-31 16:01:57 by geeksugar in geeksugar -- Geek is chic.
I like the idea of going to work in an environmentally-sound vehicle especially one that can get me a great workout! But this one, dubbed the Imagine LMV does bring to mind a certain Stone Age family who have been sporting this kind of ride for ages. Starting at $15,000, this human powered gem has you rowing your way to a greener earth . But...
 
Tags: car, human car, human, earth, earth day, drive, imagine lmv, ipod adapter, wilma flinstone
 
 
 
 
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iPoint Presenter Promises a New Human-Computer Mode of Communication

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2008-03-03 14:24:11 by Michael in Medgadget
Engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications are going to showcase at the upcoming CeBIT in Hanover a new way for people to communicate with computers. The system, dubbed iPoint Presenter, might come handy for the development of devices designed for people with disabilities, and for other applications: At the heart of the...
 
Tags: people, gestures enable people, computer, gestures, record visitors gestures, interpret human gestures, computer reacts, computer simulation, ipoint presenter
 
 
 
 
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Confirmed: Human Placenta Not a Nutritional Supplement

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2008-04-15 10:14:27 by Bryan Gardiner in Gadget Lab
Many of us here at the Gadget Lab had a feeling about this one, but now the FDA has confirmed it: Human placentas are not nutritional supplements. That ruling is bound to upset Danny, as well as Herbal Science International, a Japanese company who must now recall a number of its dietary supplements that contain ephedrine alkaloids , aristolochic...
 
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Utilizing Evolutionary Mechanisms of Human-Bacterial Symbiosis

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2008-05-28 18:32:11 by Michael in Medgadget
Dr. Sarkis K. Mazmanian, assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and colleagues have been investigating the symbiotic relationship between bacteria in the gut and the human body. What they found might have implications for the development of therapeutic strategies to deal with a range of disorders, including autoimmune diseases, and,...
 
Tags: acute disease, disease, disease results, inflammatory bowel disease, beneficial bacteria, beneficial, symbiotic gut bacteria, bacteria, gut
 
 
 
 
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Human Vs. Zombie Tag A Growing Trend On College Campuses, Having Sex Declining

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2008-10-09 15:00:04 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
Apparently Human Vs. Zombie Tag (HvZ) is a growing trend on college campuses. An HvZ game typically involves hundreds of students and runs 24 hours a day for days on end; dwindling numbers of humans try to fend off and outlast growing legions of zombies. The rules are fundamentally simple: Zombie tags human, human becomes a zombie. Unlike movie...
 
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Human embryos successfully cloned from skin cells, cloned babies next?

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2008-01-19 18:39:07 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
Stem cell research, whether you agree with it or not, looks to have taken another step forward recently A company called Stemagen out of La Jolla, California has created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering...
 
Tags: human embryos, human, mature human embryos, mature, skin cells, single skin cells, stem cells, embryos stem cells, washington post
 
 
 
 
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Magic Cube Heralds the Future of Gaming and Human Interfaces [Exclusive]

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2008-02-08 12:00:45 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
Nobody really knows what the future of human interfaces and gaming will look like, but Andrew Fentemwho went from working on classified missile systems to developing multi-touch human interfaces, kinetic surfaces and motion sensing technologies before almost anyone else in the planetgave us a fascinating vision on where we are headed in this...
 
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