MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hybrids'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899363&cid=t_185143_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fthe-sound-of-silence-electric-cars-will-hit-you%2F image via Dvice Toyota just released a new noisemaker for the Prius, like a lot of hybrid car manufacturers are. Yes, people are paying to make their electric cars louder. Apparently, the cars are so silent that pedestrians won’t hear the car coming and could get hit. The noisemakers are basically speakers that go under the hood of a car that make a sound like a gas powered car. The kind of car you just paid big money to not drive. Don’t electric cars come with horns? Don’t they have breaks? We’re pretty sure they don’t inhibit the drivers’ vision at all. So…why do you need those $150 noisemakers again? Then again, maybe Toyotas should have these. They don’t really have the breaks thing down yet. via Dvice Post from: BlissTree The Sound of Si... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899363 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:47:35 +0100 3899363 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899366&cid=t_185143_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fif-you-dont-have-an-electric-car-you-hate-america%2F photo: Thinkstock Well, that’s kind of what Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary David Sandalow said. He said that electric cars are patriotic, quiet and cheap to drive. Hummers are expensive to drive and really loud — does that make them un-patriotic? Wait, I think I saw a Hummer near Ground Zero today! Get Glenn Beck, stat! We do like Sandalow’s idea of electric cars becoming the norm, though. We’d love to plug our car nightly rather than stop for gas every few days, and our wallets would like it as well. Would you buy an electric car? via Huffington Post Post from: BlissTree If You Don't Have an Electric Car, You Hate America (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899366 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:00:37 +0100 3899366 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424022&cid=t_185143_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJfYN8jH9l5A%2F If you like driving a big car or SUV, the good news about Obama’s new fuel-economy standards is that they won’t dictate what kind of car you will be able to buy in the future. If you want to buy a 15-mpg SUV, Detroit (or Aichi or Wolfsburg) will be free to make and sell you one. The bad news is that the standards may make your car more expensive. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards are actually calculated as the mean of gallons per mile, not miles per gallon. So, as of 2016, for every 15-mpg model made by an auto maker, that company will have to make five models of cars that can go 50 mpg in order for its fleet to meet Obama’s new target. Since bringing each new model to market can cost billions of dollars, if there are not enough people who want to buy those ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424022 Wed, 20 May 2009 13:04:12 +0100 2424022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2156340&cid=t_185143_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F02%2Ffailure-of-human-animal-hybrid-cloning.html A few weeks ago, I posted about bitter complaints being made by scientists in Brave New Britain that the government had not yet funded the creation of human/animal hybrid cloned embryos. The scientists charged that morality might have played a part in the non funding--a terrible thought that was later laid to rest by the assurance that morality has nothing to do with science funding in the UK.But now, the scientists at Advanced Cell Technology are claiming that using animal eggs to make human cloned embryos doesn't work. From the story:Researchers who tried to use mouse, cow and rabbit eggs to make human clones said on Monday the effort failed to produce workable embryos but added that they showed human cloning should work in principle. Mixing human and animal cells does not appear to prog... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2156340 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:02:00 +0100 2156340 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2097785&cid=t_185143_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2Fdenying-funding-for-humanhybrid-cloning.html "The scientists" in the UK are throwing a tantrum because their funding for the creation of human/cow hybrid embryos has apparently slowed. From the story:Britain's effort to lead the world in stem cell research with the creation of human-animal "hybrid" clones has ground to a halt through lack of funding less than a year after the controversial technique was legalised.Funding bodies are refusing to finance the research and existing projects have been run down to the point at which they may end completely within weeks. One of the researchers involved in the work said last night that the grant applications may have been blocked by scientists on the funding committees who are morally opposed to the creation of cloned hybrid embryos derived from mixing human cells with the eggs of cows, pigs ... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2097785 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:33:00 +0100 2097785 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1360653&cid=t_185143_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F267096224%2F We may have to reevaluate whether Saccharomyces cerevisiae alone is the species used to brew beer.  A paper from Gonzalez et al describes results from PCR-RFLP comparison of 24 brewing strains identifies evidence for S. cerevisiae x S. kudriavzevii hybrids.  Although this hybridization is not unprecedented, most seem to be related to cultivated brewing or fermentation strains.  It seems that the hybrids are better able to cope with the stress associated with fermentation process. It seems these would also be a great test system for more whole genome sequencing or at least more polymorphism comparisons to try and determine the proportion of the genome that comes from different parents and estimate timing and frequency of hybridization.  It seems possible that the hybridizations are o... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1360653 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:53:20 +0100 1360653