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First World: Artificial Blood from Stem Cells

French researchers from Inserm and the AP – HP were able to inject a patient to red blood cells created from his own stem cells. In the future, the sick who need a blood transfusion become their own donors? Hope seems permissible.

For a long time, it seeks to realize artificial blood by different methods, such as the reprogramming skin cells, or casting of hydrogel. At the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris, Luc Douay and his team explore the way of stem cells and has just achieve a remarkable, presented in the journal Blood. The study took place in two time. Using a human donor stem cells, scientists first managed to produce billions of cultivated red blood cells. They have this used growth factors specific ” that regulate proliferation and maturation of stem cells into red blood cells .

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Police Help Apple Search for Missing iPhone

San Francisco police have assisted Apple in the search for a prototype of the latest iPhone that went astray in a bar in a repeat of an embarrassing loss that took place last year.

An Apple employee lost a yet-to-be-released iPhone 5 in a tequila bar in San Francisco's Mission District in July, technology news site CNET reported this week.

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U.S. Airport Unveils New Body Scan Technology

Newark Liberty International Airport became the first New York-area airport to install body scanning technology that will replace a system that was harshly criticized for invading travelers' privacy by displaying naked images.

Transportation Security Administration officials unveiled the software at the airport on Friday, where more than 8 million passengers boarded planes last year. The technology was originally tested in February at Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington and rolled out in July.

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Bar Owner Uses Facebook to Reunite Bride and Dress

German newlywed Sandra Scharf entered a bar in the tourist town of Key West earlier this week looking for her wedding dress. Thanks to some fast thinking by the owner of a different bar and the wonders of social networking, she managed to get it back.

Around noon Tuesday, the co-owner of Key West's popular Island Dogs Bar was standing outside his watering hole when two tourists ran up carrying a garment bag they said had just fallen off a sport utility vehicle.

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Google Pulling Plug on Fast Flip, Shutting Aardvark

Internet giant Google said Friday that it is pulling the plug on its online news reader Fast Flip and closing Aardvark, a "social search" service it bought last year.

Google said it is winding down Fast Flip, which was unveiled in September 2009, and shutting down Aardvark as part of the closure announced last month of its experimental test bed Google Labs.

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Bush's Brother Opens Chinese Microblog

The brother of former U.S. president George W. Bush has opened an account with the most popular micro blogging service in China, where his musings on his daughter's wedding have attracted tens of thousands of followers.

Neil Bush, who runs an oil company in Texas and is nine years younger than his better-known sibling, only opened his account with Sina's Weibo -- China's answer to Twitter -- on Tuesday, with the help of a Chinese-speaking assistant.

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Mobile Shopping: More Buzz Than Buy so Far

When it comes to mobile shopping, so far there's more buzz than buy.

As the number of people who use iPhones and other smartphones grows, companies selling everything from hardware to high fashion are touting all the new applications they're rolling out that enable shoppers to do anything from check a store's inventory while in the dressing room to order prescriptions.

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With New Tablets, Sony Takes Aim at iPad in Japan

Sony Corp. said Thursday it wants to become the biggest player in Japan's growing Android tablet market by changing the way the devices are used.

The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant unveiled its first tablets to the rest of the world Wednesday, diving into the intense race at home and abroad to catch Apple's iPad.

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Netflix Stock Falls as Talks on Starz Deal Unravel

Netflix's negotiations to keep a key piece of its Internet video library have collapsed, dealing a major blow to the largest U.S. video subscription service as it raises the prices for most of its 25 million customers. The setback triggered a nearly 9 percent drop in Netflix Inc.'s stock price.

Starz Entertainment delivered the bad news Thursday in a terse statement announcing that it won't renew a contract that allows Netflix to show a lineup of recently released movies and TV shows over high-speed Internet connections.

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Bid to Block AT&T Deal Reflects Telecom Industry

The Obama administration has explained its effort to block AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile USA by saying it will fight mergers that would reduce competition and hurt consumers.

Yet few think the lawsuit the administration filed Wednesday signals a more aggressive stance toward acquisitions in other industries. Rather, experts say, the administration's challenge of AT&T's purchase comes down to this: Telecom is dominated by just a few big companies. Reducing the number of major players could all but kill competition and drive prices up.

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