Sunday Newscape Magazine

Bangkok (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the loss of life and the injuries that have resulted so far from the violence in the streets of Bangkok. It calls on all those involved to respect the life, physical integrity and human dignity of others at all times.

Los Angeles, California - UCLA researchers and their collaborators have developed a method that could open the door for investigations into the function of half of all proteins in the human body.

Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes instead of flat layers.

I seem to be getting cantankerous before my time. I really didn’t expect to be so curmudgeonly in middle age. (Assuming a woman can be called curmudgeonly or is that phrase reserved only for men?) Yet here I am, not yet 50 years old and far less able to suffer fools gladly (including the fool in the mirror) than I used to be.