How to make your home gym fun and functional (Detroit News) 12 Mar 2010
Choosing a room to function as a home gym or personal workout space is just as important as finding the right equipment. The key is to make the space inviting, experts say.
KC Council re-establishes city’s Human Relations Department (The Kansas City Star) 11 Mar 2010
The Kansas City Council voted Thursday to re-establish a Human Relations Department, but it narrowly rejected a proposal to create a centralized construction department. The council voted unanimously to give the human relations function the clout of a department in order to ensure minorities and women get equal contracting opportunities with the city. The office most recently had been a division …
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 11 March 2010 (SpaceRef) 11 Mar 2010
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
Finding Charcot-Marie-Tooth gene ends a quest and begins new era of personalized genomic medicine (Science Daily) 11 Mar 2010
Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. James Lupski came to the end of a personal quest earlier this year when the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center sequenced his complete genome and identified the gene involved in his own form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome, which affects the function of nerves in the body’s limbs, hands and feet. At the same time, the finding opened a new door showing that …
Media Lab unveils SiteGrinder 3 with new add-ons (MacNN) 11 Mar 2010
Media Lab has unveiled SiteGrinder 3, an update to its website production plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The software is used to generate CSS and XHTML standards-compliant web pages using Photoshop designs. The latest release brings over 300 new features and functions, including a re-designed interface and two add-ons. The integrated web-text function has also been improved to support text …
Media Lab unveils SiteGrinder 3 with new add-ons (MacNN) 11 Mar 2010
Media Lab has unveiled SiteGrinder 3, an update to its website production plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The software is used to generate CSS and XHTML standards-compliant web pages using Photoshop designs. The latest release brings over 300 new features and functions, including a re-designed interface and two add-ons. The integrated web-text function has also been improved to support text …
Road project includes fence to protect birds (Solana Beach Sun) 11 Mar 2010
A temporary fence sits alongside construction on El Camino Real. Photo: Jon Clark The widening of El Camino Real where it weaves through the river valley has begun. This current portion of widening, from Sea Country Lane to San Dieguito Road, is a separate project from the city’s widening project that could eventually widen and re-align El Camino Real from San Dieguito to Via de la Valle and …
Text message erasing application goes international (PhysOrg) 11 Mar 2010
A California start-up on Thursday went international with a TigerText iPhone application that lets people kill embarrassing text messages after they have been sent out.
WH Chief Helped GOP Sink 9/11 Trial (consortiumnews.com) 11 Mar 2010
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has collaborated behind the scenes with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to oppose the Obama administration’s plans to use federal civilian courts, not military commissions, to try alleged Islamic terrorists, according to sources and press reports.
WH Chief Helped GOP Sink 9/11 Trial (consortiumnews.com) 11 Mar 2010
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has collaborated behind the scenes with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to oppose the Obama administration’s plans to use federal civilian courts, not military commissions, to try alleged Islamic terrorists, according to sources and press reports.
Researchers characterize stem cell function (PhysOrg) 11 Mar 2010
The promise of stem cells lies in their unique ability to differentiate into a multitude of different types of cells. But in order to determine how to use stem cells for new therapeutics, scientists and engineers need to answer a fundamental question: if a stem cell changes to look like a certain type of cell, how do we know if it will behave like a certain type of cell?
Immune Cells That Fight Parasites May Promote Allergies and Asthma (redOrbit) 11 Mar 2010
Millions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.The Penn Vet researchers, studying how the immune system operates, have discovered a previously unidentified cell population that may be the body’s double-edged sword, fighting off parasitic infections but also …
Researchers characterize stem cell function (EurekAlert!) 11 Mar 2010
( Northwestern University ) Northwestern University researchers are the first to fully characterize a special type of stem cell, endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) that exist in circulating blood, to see if they can behave as endothelial cells in the body when cultured on a bioengineered surface.
Immune cells that fight parasites may promote allergies and asthma (Science Daily) 11 Mar 2010
Millions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings that identify a cell population that fights off parasitic infections but also causes allergies and asthma.
San Diego company sequences DNA of Glenn Close (Solana Beach Sun) 11 Mar 2010
Illumina, which is headquartered in the University Towne Centre area, announced Thursday that it has sequenced the DNA of actress Glenn Close. In a press release, the company said she is the “first publicly named female to have her DNA sequenced to full coverage” and one of only a small group to have this done. The service was completed in Illumina’s laboratory “utilizing the company’s Genome …