Possible to grow replacements for virtually any part of the human body

Soon, it would be possible to grow replacements for virtually any part of the human body. Scientists believe that spare human parts factories could be just years away as they discovered it is possible to grow new organs. They have already grown the bladder, urethra and windpipe,

which have been implanted into patients during clinical trials.

Now scientists have set their sights on replicating more complicated organs, including the heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas and thymus.

The advances could extend life expectancy and cut waiting times for transplants, reported the Sunday Times.

SCIENTISTS have found more than 20 ways of growing spare body parts for humans in a series of advances that could extend life expectancy and end long waits for..........

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HTC’s 4G Tablet or Apple’s iPad; which one to owe?

What is HTC planning? This is the only question which will come to anybody’s mind. Recently when HTC along with AT&T network launched its 4G tablet, we could not help but ask this question to ourselves. The Taiwan based company has earlier had a tablet with 7 inch display. The Tablet called Jetstream will combine a hoard of latest technologies.Recently, HTC surprised the market with its latest 4G tablet that it has launched in collaboration with AT&T network.

With a display of 7 inch, the product of this Taiwan-based company is popular by the name of Jetstream and has been modified with more of latest technologies.

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Baidu Yi- A new software platform that will intensify its competition with Google

Baidu launched its own mobile applications platform on Friday and laid out plans to release a mobile operating system based on it in the future, accordingto a report by Reuters. Named Baidu Yi, the apps platform is based on a heavily modified version of Android.

The apps platform launched by the company will allow developers to create applications and games for the company’s upcoming OS, which will be heavily search-centric, as we revealed in March this year. The Chinese search giant also launched a new homepage on the same day that added social networking and other features to its previously spartan interface. Baidu Yi needs to be preinstalled on the mobile phones and this software will let the user’s access Baidu search engine from any applications. That is this software will let the users to search the new words or things that they encounter while reading e-books, messaging and so on. Although Baidu Yi is not compatible in all mobile operating systems currently, sooner it will be spudded into all other operating...........

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Google has announced that the +1 button is now available on the mobile Web

Google’s +1 button, which enables users to get recommendations and share information with their friends on the web, is now available on Android or iOS-based mobile device.

The +1 button is straightforwardly integrated with the internet search giant Google’s social networking platform Google+ and the user can display something displayed publicly across the Web with just a click of the button.

Google+ Games and Mobile’s lead product manager Punit Soni said that the availability of the +1 button on Android 2.1+ and iOS 4.0+ browsers should help users make recommendations on the web even while on the go.

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Do Stressed Dads Pass On Stress To Their Unborn Children

Does Dad’s stress affect his unborn children? A new study in Elsevier’s Biological Psychiatry, seems to suggest the answer, “Yes, but it’s complicated”.

Most work to date has focused on maternal effects on unborn child. However, a new study has investigated paternal effects, and found that fathers exposed to chronic stress passed those stress behaviors to their offspring.

Tracing the paternal transmission of stress, the study suggested that the switch might be possible, but the process is very complicated.

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Eat potatoes to lower blood pressure without weight gain

Scientists have found that just a couple servings of potatoes a day reduces blood pressure almost as much as oatmeal without causing weight gain.

Although researchers used purple potatoes, they believe that redskin potatoes and white potatoes may have similar effects.

“The potato, more than perhaps any other vegetable, has an undeserved bad reputation that has led many health-conscious people to ban them from their diet,” said Joe Vinson, Ph.D., from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania who headed the research.

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Kids of older parents face risk of autism

It is well known that a woman’s chances of giving birth to a child with Down Syndrome increase with age. However, a new study has suggested that men should also consider their biological clocks when planning a family.
Children of older fathers are more likely to be diagnosed with autism, schizophrenia and a number of other neuropsychiatric or developmental disorders, and a new study reveals why this may be.

The results show that older male mice are more likely than younger males to have offspring with mutations in genes that correspond to human genes associated with..........

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