This new breakthrough reopens the debate on what other types of cells are capable of.
First, we face a critical shortfall of skilled scientists and engineers who can develop new breakthrough technologies.
For a while, it was as if a new breakthrough cancer drug hit every year: Gleevec, Erbitux, Avastin.
Absent strong property rights, new breakthrough therapies may never have emerged at all, denying access for rich and poor alike.
But a new breakthrough from Harvard researchers has produced the first "cyborg" tissue, created by embedding functional, biocompatible nanowires into lab-grown flesh.
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Trade with China enables our high-tech companies to stay on the cutting edge of innovation by focusing more resources on design and new breakthrough products.
He thinks that new breakthrough technologies might already be at hand.
This new breakthrough -- when combined with the DNA-based data storage and a method to transmit DNA between cells the school's already working on -- means that Stanford has created all the necessary components of a biologic computer.
Of course, a major global economic catastrophe, or some new breakthrough in energy or agricultural technology, could bring prices down precipitously, but for the most part demographic trends seem likely to favor commodity producers over the coming decade or two.
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Nothing new or breakthrough here, but the study provides good examples of how companies are executing against each point.
It was a stellar year for jazz, which was at the crossroads between "old" jazz and new, breakthrough music forms.
We all know what creative genius looks like: a young man working feverishly to produce a stunning new artistic breakthrough (Pablo Picasso) or write groundbreaking code (Mark Zuckerberg).
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Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
But as with any new technological breakthrough, there will be those looking to get around it, and as we can see from people taping Pokewalkers to spinning record players, there will always be the lazy who will go to great lengths to stay that way.
These days, we are constantly hearing about a new development or breakthrough that promises to change our world.
We have an amazing opportunity to channel this into breakthrough new products that surprise and delight, excite and ignite our players.
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Breakthrough new ideas like the iPad.
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LatticePower, started by a physicist with skills and experience honed in China, is a good example of this new trend with its breakthrough technology for making a highly efficient source of light.
"We agreed on something new, which is a breakthrough, that the banks can be recapitalized directly in certain circumstances, " he said.
HGS' best shot at a breakthrough is a new drug that targets lupus, the auto-immune disease that afflicts half a million Americans.
Or helping our research teams create the next breakthrough molecule for new consumer products that take the frizz out of my hair or cure my headache faster.
Seemingly spurred on by that breakthrough, Papua New Guinea again put New Zealand on the backfoot and they were rewarded when hooker Charlie Wabo gathered his own chip-kick to send Nami on a 50-metre run to the line.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has funded breakthrough innovation and new growth industries that are driving down the cost of clean energy and building the foundation for competitive 21st century U.S. industries, according to a new White House report released today on the impacts of the U.S. stimulus bill.
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He took time off and started Solyndra in 2005, convinced his new solar design would be a breakthrough.
It might be a breakthrough, or a new idea that really takes off.
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As the South Africans clung to the hope that a breakthrough would accompany the new ball, North and Haddin picked up their half-centuries in comfort.
"The breakthrough UI defines a new language for human-device interaction that is built ground-up for eye-free operation, " said Boaz Zilberman, chief executive officer of Project RAY.
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Author Cathy Davidson, defines learning as being a constant disruption of an old pattern, a breakthrough that substitutes something new for something old in a cyclical process.
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It was the second new ball that provided the next breakthrough, Sree Santh trapping Collingwood as he shuffled across his crease, the gritty Durham all-rounder clearly feeling the ball would have headed down the leg-side.
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