3D Printed Cell Technique Allows Material To Mimic Human-Like Tissue
By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/04/2013 02:11 PM EDT on LiveScience A team of chemists has found a way to print 3D material that resembles living tissue. The scientists developed a 3D printer that squeezes out tiny water droplets into a drop of oil, creating miniature spheres with a lipid bilayer that mimics the membranes of living cells. "We've made a new kind of material. The material consists of tens of thousands of water droplets separated by a thin membrane called a lipid bilayer, the same membrane that encapsulates living cells and keeps everything from spilling out. Previous experiments have assembled droplets into lipid bilayers, but the droplets were either made by hand, or were made using techniques that couldn't control the movement of individual droplets. Villar and colleagues have developed a 3D printer that could produce these droplets automatically. But the scientists didn't stop there.
Top 15 Most Popular Sports Websites
Here are the top 15 Most Popular Sports Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast."*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | Yahoo! Sports28 - eBizMBA Rank | 125,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *25* - Compete Rank | *30* - Quantcast Rank | NA - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017.The Most Popular Sports Websites | eBizMBA 2 | ESPN59 - eBizMBA Rank | 80,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *35* - Compete Rank | *46* - Quantcast Rank | 95 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017.The Most Popular Sports Websites | eBizMBA 3 | BleacherReport138 - eBizMBA Rank | 40,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 149 - Compete Rank | 34 - Quantcast Rank | 232 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017.The Most Popular Sports Websites | eBizMBA
What is mercury poisoning?
Actor Jeremy Piven, best known as loudmouth talent agent Ari Gold on HBO's Entourage, has made an early exit from the Broadway play Speed the Plow, blaming a mercury-rich sushi diet and possibly use of herbal medicine. His doctor says tests revealed Piven has mercury levels five to six times higher than normal, and has ordered a fish-free diet and rest. “I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury,” playwright David Mamet told Variety. “So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.” Piven's doctor, Carlon Colker, told the showbiz publication that “insensitive comments like that are not only unkind and unfair, they reflect a profound lack of understanding of a problem that can actually kill.” “The etiology is unclear, but his level of mercury was uncharacteristically high, one of the highest we’ve seen,” Colker, an internist at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, told Variety.
Top 15 Most Popular Video Websites
Here are the top 15 Best Video Sites based on popularity as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's U.S. Traffic Rank from Quantcast and Global Traffic Rank from both Alexa and SimilarWeb."*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | YouTube3 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,000,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 4 - Compete Rank | 2 - Quantcast Rank | 3 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: October 1, 2023. The Best Video Websites | eBizMBA 2 | NetFlix95 - eBizMBA Rank | 150,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 24 - Compete Rank | 166 - Quantcast Rank | 95 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: October 1, 2023. 3 | Vimeo97 - eBizMBA Rank | 130,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 148 - Compete Rank | 44 - Quantcast Rank | 98 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: October 1, 2023. 4 | Yahoo!
Sports Illustrated's Ultimate Playlist - More Sports
By Greg Kelly Music and sports are so intertwined it's hard to imagine one without the other. Boston fans sing Tessie and Sweet Caroline to rally the Red Sox. The Alan Parsons Project greets the Bulls. One Shining Moment gift-wraps the Final Four. It works the other way too: Sports is infused in music as much as music is infused in sports. That is the rich vein from which SI has mined its first collection of Sports' Greatest Hits. The philosopher Umberto Eco said we like lists because they bring order to chaos and make us feel immortal. Columbia Records Bob Dylan, 1963 "This is a song about a boxer," the always enigmatic Dylan said when he introduced this ballad at his landmark Lincoln Center performance in 1964. Moore was a 29-year-old featherweight champion from Springfield, Ohio, when he defended his title against a heavy-punching Cuban émigré named Sugar Ramos on March 21, 1963. Little changed after the fight. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The Beach Boys, 1963 Virgin Records
Olympus Tough TG-1 iHS Review & Rating
The Olympus Tough TG-1 iHS ($399.99 direct) is not your typical rugged point-and-shoot camera. This pocket shooter looks more like a traditional camera—its lens is centered rather than perched in the corner—and has a fast f/2 aperture on the wide end. The 12-megapixel TG-1 iHS can go down as far as 40 feet underwater, fires full-resolution images at 5 frames per second, and offers GPS functionality. Design and Features The TG-1 eschews the standard rugged point-and-shoot design, which places the lens in the top corner. A 4x zoom lens covers a nice 25-100mm (35mm equivalent) field of view, which is a bit wider than the 28-140mm lens built into the Canon PowerShot D20 ($349.99, 4 stars). loading... The 3-inch rear display uses OLED technology rather than the more-common LCD. One of the settings on the dial is Super Sport Mode, which should come in quite handy for an outdoor-centric camera. The camera is rated for underwater use up to 40 feet, which equals the rating of the Pentax WG-2.
