May 2007 - May 2007 on Island in the Net by Khürt Williams - Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.

Check out the results! For the functions people often use, the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800: 9 tests to 8! Of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time! Including a jaw-dropping 52 second whipping of the AMD from when the Power button is pushed to the time the Desktop is up and usable.

Diabetes News from dLife.com: Adult Stem Cells from Human Cord Umbilical Cord Blood Successfully Engineered to Make Insulin

Diabetes News from dLife.com: Adult Stem Cells from Human Cord Umbilical Cord Blood Successfully Engineered to Make Insulin
In a fundamental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers here have reported that they have engineered adult stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood to produce insulin.

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Vintage Mac beats modern CPU (sort of).

Diabetes News from dLife.com: Adult Stem Cells from Human Cord Umbilical Cord Blood Successfully Engineered to Make Insulin