With only the genetic material from the person to be cloned inside the shell of the egg, the cell would be jolted with electricity to activate cell division.
"No one was sure if I would be able to come out of that cell and be part of the family, " he said.
That is, the cell could be "coached" into becoming any type of tissue or cell in the body.
It is proposed that the cell might be used in applications which require relatively low power consumption, for example sensors of various kinds or emergency signaling units, and that the devices might be used best in desert or warm coastal regions where the water is readily evaporated from the cell, thus maintaining its concentration gradient.
"The human brain is sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones, but for the brain to be impacted, the cell phone has to be close to the head, " Volkow said.
So the fuel cell can be used to act almost as a back up generator.
FORBES: Apple Wrongfoots Greenpeace over Renewable Power for the iCloud
Within minutes, the CNC substrate dissolves and the solar cell can be separated easily into its major components.
The resulting pictures let the path taken by each nerve cell to be traced through the worm's body.
That ability to leap the gap between cells means the connections branching from a single cell can be mapped.
That means a smaller area of cell can be used to convert a given amount of light into electricity.
They believe a single type of cell may be cancer's main growth engine:mutant stem cells that, though barely present, spawn other cells that then spark growth.
It takes about four weeks for a skin cell to be "primed" for reprogramming, and then it takes an additional three to four weeks for iPS colonies to grow, according to Dr. Joseph Wu, study co-author and assistant professor of cardiology and radiology at Stanford's School of Medicine.
It took 100 years for there to be a billion landlines, 10 years for there to be a billion cell phones and just one year for there to be a billion smart cell phones.
Mass production should be easy because Lilliputian's fuel-cell chip can be made using 20-year-old semiconductor manufacturing equipment prevalent throughout Asia.
However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
By reducing flash cell wear it may be possible to make TLC (three level cell flash) more useful and to reduce the intensive wear leveling common in SSDs today.
"You could literally be in Starbucks, with your laptop and your cell phone, and be an active participant in the daily operations process for the rovers, " says John Callas, current project manager for the rovers.
"We believe that consumer electronics devices will essentially be cell phones inside, " said Jacobs.
Schmidt wants cell phones to be designed to accommodate Google searches and applications like Gmail.
The three firms claim that the Cell chip will be up to 10 times more powerful than existing processors.
BBC: The successor to the PlayStation 2 will be launched in 2006
Each cell appeared to be tuned to up to eight different facial dimensions.
But most say it is at least ten years before fuel-cell vehicles will be for sale at an affordable price.
That is embarrassing for breast-cancer activists, who have campaigned hard for autologous stem-cell support to be made more widely available.
The CTIA, the wireless industry trade group, noted that no research has found cell phones to be a danger to health.
Raduchel: The most important 'Net access device in 2005 will be cell phones, PCs will the fourth, fifth or sixth most common device.
In a small number of patients, a stem cell transplant can be curative, but the therapy can also be fatal, especially in older patients.
CNN: Are there any treatments for acute myelogenous leukemia?
They have demonstrated that, after five years of being plunged into liquid nitrogen, banana cell suspensions can be recovered and turned into growing plants.
ECONOMIST: A banana bank is safeguarding the future of the crop
It means in the future your cell phone will be smaller, faster, last longer on a single charge, and eventually will play music and video.
Depending on who you ask, Google's cell phone would be free.
应用推荐