New cell-therapy technique may obviate stem-cell research
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Little Ice Age may have been triggered by volcanic eruptions News Picks home New cell-therapy technique may obviate stem-cell research By Physics Today on January 31, 2012 2:00 PM No Comments No TrackBacks BBC Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in converting mouse skin cells into neural precursor cells , which can develop into three types of brain cell . The group's findings which have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may be important for certain medical therapies , such as bone marrow transplants . Until now such transplants have relied on stem cells , which can
Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."
Fun post for everyone today. In response to last week’s post on describing KEK Laboratory’s discovery of additional exotic hadrons, I got an absolutely terrific question from a QD reader: Surprisingly, the answer to “How does an electron-positron collider produce quarks if neither particle contains any?” all begins with the inconspicuous photon. No Firefox, I [...]
The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.
There is a very good reason why I was silent in the past days. The reason is that I was involved in one of the most difficult article to write down since I do research (and are more than twenty years now!). This paper arose during a very successful collaboration with two colleagues of mine: [...]
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Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago. 
Hi All, Exciting news came out the Japanese physics lab KEK (@KEK_jp, @KEK_en) last week about some pretty exotic combinations of quarks and anti-quarks. And yes, “exotic” is the new “tantalizing.” At any rate, I generally like assuming that people do not know much about hadrons so here is a quick explanation of what they [...]
Submissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.
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Ten months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan, the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) completed the first full test run for their system.