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April 23rd, 2012

Stem cell research's shining moment: Fighting baldness [video]

Posted about 16 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw!

Set aside for a moment the horror of seeing a bald mouse and focus on the fact that it’s sprouting a little patch of hair.

Stem cell research may have just gotten the best PR boost possible from the work of researchers at Tokyo University of Science who have used stem cells to regrow hair.

According to blogger Eleanor Warnock at the Wall Street Journal:

After cultivating two different kinds of cells taken from hair follicles in mice, the team transplanted the cells into the hair follicles of a bald mouse. Within three weeks, 74% of the hair follicles implanted with the cells grew back hair. The new hair connected with nerves and surrounding tissues showing that the follicles had become fully functional and were able to regrow hair even after hair was pulled out. The scientists were also able to play around with the density and color of the hair by changing the type of cells they transplanted into the mouse’s hair follicles. When they used cells from a human hair follicle, a human hair grew.

Somewhere, the Hair Club for Men guy is weeping.

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Full story at Nature Communications via Boing Boing.

Wonders of science.

Just how low can Manhattan go?

Posted about 15 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw!

Purists will scoff at the possibility of building a lower Lower Manhattan, New Yorkers cramped for space of looking for more prime real estate will drool, and anyone who realizes how much money and political capital it would take to add on to the fair isle will immediately shrug such an idea off, but for the Center of Urban Real Estate at Columbia, “LoLo” is an idea with incredible potential.

Their plan to expand the island comes with a pretty loud “Cha-ching!” seeing that their proposed landfill/landbridge between Lower Manhattan and Governor’s Island “…could generate $16.7 billion in revenue over the next 20-30 years, reported the New York Times,” but capitalizing on the less densely populated outer boroughs is much more likely to be the future of city expansion.

Full story at Treehugger.

More of NY to love.

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Thug Waffle-The Flatbush Zombies

Posted about 12 hours ago by John Weez to Dont Tell the Hipsters

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廃墟

Posted about 9 hours ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u

ソルトン湖。

Yoga to make you "Arrrgh," "Ahhh!" and feel out of this world

Posted about 8 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw!

With all the different forms of yoga out there, it’s hard to keep track of what hearkens back to the ancient practitioners and what an enthusiastic instructor just made up, but while we’re pretty sure Rob Osborne poses are legit, his practitioners are anything but your run-of-the-mill yoga enthusiasts.