Patients having liposuction will soon be able to store their stem cells taken from excised fat, U.S. firm Bio-Matrix Scientific said Wednesday.
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Stem Cells Harvested from Fat of Liposuction Patients
Study: Too Many Vitamins May Trigger Prostate Cancer
Taking too many multi-vitamin supplements could increase the risk of prostrate cancer, according to a new study.
Australians Go Crazy for ‘Cat Poo’ Coffee
Cafe-crazy Australians in the last decade have embraced coffee in all its forms, but they’ve saved the most expensive – and excremental – for last.
ExerSwim Portable Water Current Generator
The ExerSwim is a portable device that when placed on the edge of a pool will generate a constant current in the water. This current then allows anyone in the pool to swim for as long as they want getting both a great workout and burning calories at the same time.
The Hydropolis Building Set
Are LEGOs not wet enough for you? Take a look at this Hydrodynamic building set. It’s essentially a construction set that lets you make water do all kinds of weird and fantastic-looking things, like flow from one container to another, and from that container to the next one. (w/video)
40 Million Vista Licenses Sold in 100 Days
In the first 100 days since its launch in Jan 30 Windows Vista has sold an astounding 40 million licenses. Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles which has made it the fastest selling operating system in history.
User Created Content is Key for New Games
Doug Lombardi, marketing director at Valve Software, has stated that he believes home consoles must embrace user-created content if “they want online to matter”.
Bee-Keeper Achieves New Feat
A bee-keeper in Quanzhou, Fujian, risked his life by having 120,000 bees crawling all over his body on Monday, becoming the first person in the province to successfully achieve the feat
MySpace Weeding Out Sex Criminals
MySpace said on Tuesday it is weeding sexual predators from the youth-oriented social networking website, but insisted it is forbidden by law from revealing their identities to US state attorneys general.
Bible Drawn Into Hong Kong Sex Publication Row
More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as "indecent" due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal
Pizza Flavored Beer
Beer and pizza are tastes that, for many of us, just seem to go together. But, beer that tastes like pizza?
Where Are All the Online Shoppers Going?
This year 139 million individuals, or 78.5% of Internet users ages 14 and older, will shop online in the US, while by 2011, 80% of those users will be online shoppers.
Treadmill Desk Designed to Fight Obesity
The good people at Mayo Clinic have donned their inventor hats and built what they call a "vertical workstation" — a desk fitted over a standard treadmill. Then they persuaded 15 obese people to work at this treadmill-desk and measured how many calories they burned. (w/pic)
Laptop Case with Built-In Desk
Use with any stable Roller bag that uses a standard 2-pole handle system and experience the freedom and comfort that this new clever way of using your portable computer offers. (w/pics)
Can Yoga be Patented
Stressing that yoga was a centuries-old Indian tradition, popular yoga guru Swami Ramdev urged the government and yoga organizations to prevent it from being patented overseas.
