Researchers at Wuhan University, National Research Council of Canada and the Center for Functional Genomics at the University at Albany have been working together to create GMO rice that contains human blood protein chemically identical to human serum albumin. This protein is normally obtained by extracting it from blood donors. It is then used to treat patients with burns and liver disease, but blood donor ...

The Obama administration has been extremely tough on rounding up illegal immigrants and deporting them. So tough that he's deported more than any other administration in history. So what's the problem you ask? Well, no one wants the jobs because they either don't pay enough, are too hard, or both. Although a tough new law was enacted in Alabama and has been challenged, it scared away most of the migrant wor ...

Tennessee has become the first American state to use the TSA statewide, with officers placed in airports, bus stations, weigh stations and on the highways. Using Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR), the TSA is traveling across the state monitoring the highways and weigh stations. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKIfgk5oJk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] "Where is a terrorist mor ...

Over the past few years, Facebook has garnered a lot of publicity, concern, and backlash for its numerous privacy issues. The most current concern is a recent patent filing to track its users offsite as well as actually helping the government with surveillance.  Earlier this week, Facebook created its own Political Action Committee (PAC). The move is the latest in a series of maneuvers boosting the Palo Alt ...

In today's every connected world, it is of the utmost importance that everyone remain vigilant when safeguarding their privacy and identity. If this does not happen, then invasions of privacy and identify theft are more likely to occur. This happened to me recently at work. If I were a less honest person, I could have destroyed a coworker's life merely because she did not think of the implications of leavin ...

The police, politicians and some media outlets are all blaming technology for the riots. The people are blaming an ignorant government. The two sides don't seem like they're going to meet anytime soon. British MP David Lammy has called for social networking sites to be shut down, but, if they did that, then those who are trying to help clean up the mess as volunteers wouldn't be able to coordinate either. T ...

The US has begun warning airlines of the possibility of bombs that are implanted inside the human body that can be used at airports and to blow up planes. Such things have been joked about for several years on the internet, but the US now says that it might happen. At the moment, they don't have any credible sources, just some tips and innuendo. So, should we be worried about body bombs or not? The departme ...

The UK Internet Watch Foundation already blocks websites that contains child sexual abuse content, also known as child porn, but now it wants to expand its powers to include anything that has violent and unlawful content as well. The proposals were outlined in the UK HomeOffice's latest anti-terrorism Prevent Strategy report, which was released earlier this week. Internet filtering across the public estate ...

One of the many reasons people leave Facebook is that it constantly changes its privacy conditions, forcing users to continuously monitor their accounts. Recently, Facebook has turned on their facial recognition for photographs without notifying anyone, leaving many users scrambling to find out how to turn it off. Originally turned on for Americans last December, facial recognition was recently turned on wo ...

When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I shared a lot of music, movies, and television. I regularly made mix tapes to share with my friends and they with me. We recorded movies and television onto VHS tapes and shared them. We also loaned our copies of various media to each other. This is how we discovered new things and what we liked and didn't like. It is how I discovered most of the bands and musicians that ...