Way, way back in the 1960s and 1970s, the NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a unit of the National Institutes of Health [NIH]) ran a series of programs to promote the development of better treatments to address kidney failure.
Continue reading Spurring on Innovation for ESRD
I’ve written many times about the amount of physical exercise we need to do to ensure our physical and mental well-being. Walking 6 miles a week. Exercising 150 minutes a week- even if you are a weekend warrior.
Continue reading Get off your butt!
Please note: This post will be a little long today. But, I didn’t think it would make sense to split it into multiple entries. I am pretty sure you will agree with me when you finish reading it.
Continue reading Tax Planning- for Tax Savings
I have been using a portable computer for nearly 4 decades.
A fellow Chem E, one who was writing books (and created a computing publishing house) about computer programs felt he could create a better computer than any had offered to date. So, in 1981, Adam Osborne did just that. He offered a portable computer (weighing in at a svelte 22 pounds), with a 7 inch screen, and two 180 KB 5 ¼ inch flopping drives. I had three of them- and replaced them when he offered up 360 KB drives- double the storage! (The last floppy I used stored about 3 MB!)
Continue reading Give me your data. Now!
This new research leaves me pretty frightened.
I’ve told you before that when the Sfardi rabbi ruled that we Jewish folks were finally allowed to donate organs at death, I was at the DMV the very next morning to sign up. Because I believe in the practice- but it had been counter to the Jewish Code of Law (as codified in volumes called the Shulchan Aruch, the Set Table) forever.
Continue reading Zombie Apocalypse?
Given that yesterday was Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, it’s probably a good time to talk about anti-Semitism, and its new masquerade- Anti-Zionism. (You do realize that Anti-Semitism is the oldest anti-otherism among our civilizations.) Especially, since the murder by the American terrorist in Poway has faded from memory somewhat.
Continue reading Anti-Otherism
Continue reading Another candle on the cake
Another stem cell development.
For this development , Drs. Tal Dvir and Assaf Shapria (along with PhD candidate Nadav Noor and Drs. Reuven Edri, Idan Gal, and Lior Wertheim; all from Tel Aviv University) removed omental tissue (the omentum is the sheet of fatty tissue that stretches over the abdomen, affording vital immune responses ) from a patient and converted them into pluripotent stem cells. And, then induce those cells to form cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells. These two cell types are then incorporated into a hydrogel that can then be printed by the 3D printer. Initially, these structures were simply cardiac patches.
Continue reading Have a heart…
Over the decades, I’ve started a fair number of firms. I’m not going to count the ones I started before I was 18, since they were what I would call solopreneurial ventures. Businesses started to provide me the money I needed to live. I had no desire to create an enterprise, one that would hire employees and make a lasting impression upon the world.
Continue reading Founder Success?
This week has been designated as National Small Business Week. It would be optimum if the government agencies really tried to make it easier and better for small businesses to thrive in America. Instead of focusing their beneficence on megafirms. But, I digress.
Continue reading National Small Business Week
