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Researchers Create Lung On a Chip
ElectricSteve writes "Utilizing human lung and blood vessel cells, researchers have created a device mounted on a microchip that mimics a living, breathing human lung. About the size of a rubber eraser, the device was developed by a team from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and Children's Hospital Boston. Because it's translucent, researchers can watch the processes taking place inside of it — something that's difficult to do with an actual lung. It will be used for testing the respiratory effects of environmental toxins, aerosolized therapeutics, and new drugs. Using conventional models, such tests can cost more than $2 million."
Excuse my aside but I thought I would post an interesting fact that some people may or may not know. Now everyone knows that race has a correlation to penis size, but did you know that programming languages did to? Gary Niger, programming languages expert for Goatse Security, had this to say on the subject:
"Now we all know that the C programming language is renowned for it's small code size and fast execution speed, but did you know that C programmers are also well-known for having tiny penises and being premature ejaculators? According to our study C programmers average at about 3.5 inches long fully erect."
On the other hand, the World Organization on Penises (WOP) have found that programmers in C# and Java have been shown to have some of the biggest penises in the industry (lowest end measurements are around 7" inches long and 6" in circumference).
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