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Monday, October 29, 2012
Still Fresh 21 years on!
Still Fresh 21 years on! Will Smith performs Fresh Prince of Bel Air rap and Summertime at delighted Gabrielle Union's birthday party
By Iona Kirby|
He may be an extremely successful Hollywood A-lister but Will Smith hasn’t forgotten his roots.
The 44-year-old gave his pal Gabrielle Union a birthday surprise when he rapped at a party she threw to celebrate turning 40 on Saturday night.
Will grabbed the microphone alongside rapper Doug E. Fresh and the pair put on quite the show for the excited crowd.
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What a treat: Will Smith surprised everyone at Gabrielle Union's birthday party on Saturday when he grabbed the microphone and started rapping
Before whipping out the old classics, Will wowed the party attendees with an impressive freestyle rap.
He couldn’t stop smiling and it certainly proved to be a great present for the birthday girl.
Bring It On actress Gabrielle, who turns 40 on Monday, rushed over to give Will a hug to say thank you.
The pair starred together in 2003 action comedy movie Bad Boys II and appear to have maintained a close friendship ever since.
Still got it: Will performed the Fresh Prince of Bel Air rap and Summertime alongside rapper Doug E. Fresh (R)
Best present ever: Gabrielle couldn't hide her delight at the birthday surprise as she celebrated turning 40
In May he performed the Fresh Prince of Bel Air rap on The Graham Norton Show, with Take That frontman Gary Barlow joining in on the keyboard.
He also recorded a remix of Summertime back in August.
And after a ten year wait and a good deal of award nominations, Will this year returned to his role as alien-fighting Agent J in the third instalment of Men In Black.
Meanwhile Will’s wife Jada Pinkett-Smith – who married him in 1997 – recently praised Will as the best husband ever and admits she couldn't be happier with her family.
Thank you: Gabrielle was clearly thrilled with the performance as she rushed over to give Will a hug
Old friends: Will and Gabrielle starred together in the 2003 movie Bad Boys II
Jada - who has two children, Jaden, 14, and 11-year-old Willow, with Will - said: ‘There are no negatives being married to Will Smith! I swear Will has to be one of the most outstanding fathers.'Not only just loving him, and him being my husband, but when I look at how he loves his children, I go, “Thank you! I made such a good choice.” I hit the jackpot with that one.’
Jada also says being married to Will has helped her grow as well as understand the importance of letting him be his own person.
She explained: ‘Part of being in a partnership is that you have to support the spirit of it. Being in a partnership like that has forced me to become bigger and to grow, and to allow him to grow and be all that he's meant to be on this planet.’
Keeping in touch: Will, seen in Hollywood on October 15 and Gabrielle, seen two days earlier in New York, appear to have remained close
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Steve Jobs' custom-built yacht that he'll never use: 260ft Venus is finally finished (and it looks just like an Apple store)
Steve Jobs' custom-built yacht that he'll never use: 260ft Venus is finally finished (and it looks just like an Apple store)
The Venus, a state-of-the-art aluminum superyacht that the Apple founder helped design, was finally completed this month - one year after his death. Jobs employed the chief engineer of his Apple stores to help design special glass that allowed the ship to be installed with ten-foot-high windows across the hull.
Monday, October 8, 2012
UK, Japan scientists win Nobel for stem cell breakthroughs
UK, Japan scientists win Nobel for stem cell breakthroughs
By Anna Ringstrom | Reuters – 57 mins ago- Enlarge PhotoReuters/Reuters - Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka (L) and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo, in this photo taken by
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs.
John Gurdon, 79, of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, Britain and Shinya Yamanaka, 50, of Kyoto University in Japan, discovered ways to create tissue that would act like embryonic cells, without the need to harvest embryos.
They share the $1.2 million Nobel Prize for Medicine, for work Gurdon began 50 years ago and Yamanaka capped with a 2006 experiment that transformed the field of "regenerative medicine" - the field of curing disease by regrowing healthy tissue.
"These groundbreaking discoveries have completely changed our view of the development and specialization of cells," the Nobel Assembly at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said.
All of the body's tissue starts as stem cells, before developing into skin, blood, nerves, muscle and bone. The big hope for stem cells is that they can be used to replace damaged tissue in everything from spinal cord injuries to Parkinson's disease.
Scientists once thought it was impossible to turn adult tissue back into stem cells, which meant that new stem cells could only be created by harvesting embryos - a practice that raised ethical qualms in some countries and also means that implanted cells might be rejected by the body.
In 1958, Gurdon was the first scientist to clone an animal, producing a healthy tadpole from the egg of a frog with DNA from another tadpole's intestinal cell. That showed developed cells still carry the information needed to make every cell in the body, decades before other scientists made headlines around the world by cloning the first mammal, Dolly the sheep.
More than 40 years later, Yamanaka produced mouse stem cells from adult mouse skin cells, by inserting a few genes. His breakthrough effectively showed that the development that takes place in adult tissue could be reversed, turning adult cells back into cells that behave like embryos. The new stem cells are known as "induced pluripotency stem cells", or iPS cells.
"The eventual aim is to provide replacement cells of all kinds," Gurdon's Institute explains on its website.
"We would like to be able to find a way of obtaining spare heart or brain cells from skin or blood cells. The important point is that the replacement cells need to be from the same individual, to avoid problems of rejection and hence of the need for immunosuppression."
The science is still in its early stages, and among important concerns is the fear that iPS cells could grow out of control and develop into tumors.
Nevertheless, in the six years since Yamanaka published his findings the discoveries have already produced dramatic advances in medical research, with none of the political and ethical issues raised by embryo harvesting.
"NOT A ONE-WAY STREET"
Thomas Perlmann, Nobel Committee member and professor of Molecular Development Biology at the Karolinska Institute said: "Thanks to these two scientists, we know now that development is not strictly a one-way street."
"There is lot of promise and excitement, and difficult disorders such as neurodegenerative disorders, like perhaps Alzheimer's and, more likely, Parkinson's disease, are very interesting targets."
The techniques are already being used to grow specialized cells in laboratories to study disease, the chairman of the awards committee, Urban Lendahl, told Reuters.
"You can't take out a large part of the heart or the brain or so to study this, but now you can take a cell from for example the skin of the patient, reprogram it, return it to a pluripotent state, and then grow it in a laboratory," he said.
"The second thing is for further ahead. If you can grow different cell types from a cell from a human, you might - in theory for now but in future hopefully - be able to return cells where cells have been lost."
Yamanaka's paper has already been cited more than 4,000 times in other scientists' work. He has compared research to running marathons, and ran one in just over four hours in March to raise money for his lab.
In a news conference in Japan, he thanked his team of young researchers: "My joy is very great. But I feel a grave sense of responsibility as well."
Gurdon has spoken of an unlikely career for a young man who loved science but was steered away from it at school. He still keeps a discouraging school report on his office wall.
"I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist... This is quite ridiculous," his teacher wrote. "It would be a sheer waste of time, both on his part and of those who have to teach him." The young John "will not listen, but will insist on doing his work in his own way."
(Reporting by Patrick Lannin, Alistair Scrutton, Ben Hirschler, Kate Helland, Kiyoshi Takenaka, Chris Wickham and Peter Graff; writing by Peter Graff; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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Been Long we did this ....
I believe you'll be wondering what this is ... naaahhhhhhhh it's nothing to hit your hear on a wall, it's nothing, just the usual me blabbing in my own usual way.... lol, typical huh! Just trying to say it's been long I did this share my thoughts with anyone ... Been going through a whole lot of experiences these past months that they're almost weighing me down ... but I refuse to buckle under the pressure ... they can keep coming as much as they can, I believe I'll definitely pull through at the end of the whole Saga ... trust me ... I can't be intimidated into becoming a vegetable just because am passing a stressful time .... i believe everyone goes through this once in a while, mine can't be different after all, I believe someone must have had this same experiences once in this life ... I'll pull through ... as long as am alive and God is sustaining me, I pull through this and subsequent ones ... they never go away, don't deceive yourself, what matters or counts at the end of the day, which is your saving grace is how you handled everything...Gotta go, am still breathing.... ALIVE!
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