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Research at the University of Utah could lead to burn treatment on the go that makes use of your body’s own cells. Surgeons Amit Patel and Amalia Cochran are researching the use of stem cells in conjunction with several chemicals as a spray-on jelly which has, in early testing, shown to accelerate the healing process of burns. While the team is starting with small burns, its goal is to be able to provide fast and effective, actual regeneration of a patient’s own cells to be grafted onto large area burns. Video of the project is after the break.

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Hulu Plus and ESPN Next Level are among the most-downloaded apps on the platform, electronics maker says.

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Poor, poor Justin Bieber. He created some music, and all he wanted to do was share it with the world. The teenage Canadian pop star attempted to upload his new song “Pray” to his YouTube account, only to be blocked by the service’s copyright protection software. The Google-owned video sharing site informed him that the content was the property of Universal Music Group–his label.

Bieber was pissed, so naturally he took to Twitter to air his aggressions, writing, “yo youtube…how u gonna block my own song?!?!?!” Oh snap, son.

Scorned, the Biebz turned to the arms of another, “dear youtube…we started this journey and now u r cheatin on me with this vevo chica…i see how it is…i will be over here with facebook,” he followed up in another tweet.

YouTube tweeted back, stating, “sorry about the upload pain around ‘Pray’. That’s between you and your label but we love you [both] so let’s figure this out!” Alas, Bieber would not stick around to find out if the site would make good on its promise. He did indeed upload the video to YouTube. Again, on Twitter, “no one keeps my music from my fans. nobody.”

Larry and Sergey, consider yourselves warned. 

Rambus, which modestly describes itself as “one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies,” has meekly asked the International Trade Commission to block import and sale of an amazing array of products from companies including Broadcom, Freescale, LSI, MediaTek, NVIDIA, and STMicroelectronics — the latter of which was sued by Caltech only yesterday. But wait, there’s more! Rambus also indicates that other “companies whose products incorporate the accused semiconductor products” have also been named, selling things like “personal computers, workstations, servers, routers, mobile phones and other handheld devices, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, motherboards, plug-in cards, hard drives and modems.” That should just about cover 95% of what’s available at your local electronics store, and certainly puts our holiday wish lists in legal limbo.

This is a follow-up to earlier disputes involving the company, particularly with NVIDIA, which will continue via patent infringement lawsuits filed in US District Court against those corporate entities mentioned above. Beyond that, Rambus is hoping that the ITC stops import and sale of any and all infringing products post-haste. That seems awfully drastic, but for its part Rambus indicates it has been trying with all its might to negotiate licenses with these supposedly dirty dealers and that it was told “the only way they would get serious is if we sued them.” So, place your bets because here we go.

[Thanks, Antonio]

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When we first learned of the Biome–the strange Mercedes Benz concept vehicle that was literally grown from seeds–all we had to go on was an artist’s rendering. Now Mercedes has officially unveiled the project at the Los Angeles Auto Show, providing a few more details and a much closer look at the car.

The designers at BMW envision the lab grown car being made out of a currently non-existent material called BioFibre, which would be lighter than plastic and stronger than steel. It would then run on some sort of fuel called BioNectar4534, which, again, doesn’t currently exist. The Biome would be completely biodegradable and would produce no harmful emissions.

“The Mercedes Benz Biome is a natural technology hybrid, and forms part of our earth’s ecosystem,” Mercedes’ Hubert Lee explained. “It grows and thrives like the leaves on a tree–The interior of the Biome grows from the DNA in the Mercedes star on the front of the vehicle, while the exterior grows from the star on the rear. To accommodate specific customer requirements, the Mercedes star is genetically engineered in each case, and the vehicle grows when the genetic code is combined with the seed capsule. The wheels are grown from four separate seeds.”

Hit the jump for a better look at the Biome.