"This is not the first time scientists have created 'humanized' mice, but this method is the first to show real promise and produce consistently healthy mice."
"The device can be used to treat a range of illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, cancer, and hepatitis C, according to a patent the company filed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the technology was developed."
"They place two or more people in a form of relationship not created by any other apparatus for the movement of bodies through space."--James Buzard, MIT
"MIT professor Huang Yasheng argues that Chinese incomes are not rising fast enough to offset dwindling export growth and that urbanization has been wasteful."
"Turkle, an MIT professor and the author of two previous books on the relationship between humans and computer culture, recounts a conversation that she says 'stunned' her. It sure as heck shocked me."
"The 'Connected States of America' project, which is based on aggregated, anonymous cell phone data from July 2010, shows how Americans’ mobile communications define new communities that go beyond traditional city and state boundaries."
"Geoffrey von Maltzahn and coworkers have designed a two-part system consisting of specialized nanoparticles that communicate with each other to amplify the delivery of drugs to sites of disease."
"Although a normal monsoon has been forecast for South Asia this year, and rains have begun normally in many parts of the region, people are still anxious about the rainy season that lasts for four months."
"A new study being released today, by some of the country’s top health economists, aims to estimate the effects of not having health insurance — and the effects are large."
"If US homeowners were permitted to service their enormous mortgages at, say, the Fed funds rate of almost zero, bankruptcies and foreclosures would diminish sharply and consumption and gross domestic product growth improve."- Dr. Robert Madsen