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Police say the suspect is somehow using cloned credit cards to withdraw cash from ATMS.

Alexandra Martellaro, KSDK 5:01 PM. CDT April 27, 2017

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TOWN AND COUNTRY, MO. - Police in Town and Country are asking for the public's help identifying a suspect accused of using cloned credit cards.

According to police, the suspect created the cloned cards likely by using a skimmer to steal victims' card information. The victims never lost control of their cards.

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The suspect has hit several communities in the St. Louis metro area and uses the cloned cards to withdraw cash from ATMs. He was captured on camera using a cloned card at the Woods Mill Schnucks.

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If you recognize this person, pleasecontact Detective Ronnie Nicoletti with the Town and Country Police Department at 314-568-2103.

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Its Friday out there: Looking back, April was not the cruelest month. Pretty wet, though.

The 2 millionth American patent was issued this week in 1935. It went to automotive engineer Joseph Ledwinka for a wheel design. Classic car enthusiasts remember Ledwinka as the designer of the 1929 Ruxton, the first front-wheel-drive American car. (Four still known to exist.)

Happy birthday Alice Waters.

But first, this: Collect enough data, the saying goes, and you can prove anything.

Thats not quite the charter of USAFacts, the national database unveiled last week by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, but it certainly gets the job done.

Sucking up info from more than 70 government sources and 50,000+ special districts and other agencies, the database offers a Joe Friday look at how our nation collects money, how it spends it and on whom and what. You decide if the investment was really worth it.

Small example: The amount of fuel wasted in traffic congestion more than doubled between 1990 and 2015, even as per capita spending on road projects went up by 50 percent.

Another: Federal R&D investment per capita, in steady dollars, was $463 in 1990 and $402 last year.

Also not good if you ever hope to collect Social Security: The U.S. population grew by 100 million between 1980 and 2015, but only a tenth of them were children.

And: You really dont want to know what your share of the federal debt is.

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Congrats: Huntington Hospital has become the first LI facility to achieve nursings top of the charts quality designation for the fourth time in a row.

Not to be overlooked: SBU computer scientist prof and researcher Long Lu has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Career award and a tidy $500K to continue his work on mobile security.

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Sweeeet: Researchers have developed implantable cells that can control insulin production in diabetics.

The real McCoy: Final Frontier Medical Devices has won Qualcomms $2.5 million prize for a medical scanner that comes really close to the Star Trek tricorder.

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Scientists have developed an extra-uterine womb,called a biobag, and successfully used it to grow baby sheep.This artificial womb could help bring prematurely born babies to term as well as enable a new type of surrogacy.

If youre Lincoln Six Echo from the movie, The Island, this is where it all starts. First, theyre growing baby sheep and saving severely premature babies. The next thing you know, our insurance policies are cloning humans identical to us. When our organs fail, we just trade out with our clone. The only question is: who will be able to afford that?

Birth is considered preterm if it happens before completing the 37th week of pregnancy. In the U.S., according to stats provided by theCDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), about 1 in 10 pregnancies ended in preterm birth in 2015 (30,000 babies). Globally, rates range between 5% and 18%, with 15 million preterm babies born annually.

The earlier the birth happens, the fewer chances of survival for the baby: at less than 23 weeks, the chance is close to zero. The chance increases exponentially after week 25, reaching about 80%. Preterm or premature birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths, estimated at around one-third in 2013. Babies who survive would face short and long-term health complications.

Scientists at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia designed an extra-uterine incubation system that could reduce mortality for preterm children. The device, described in a paper published in the journalNature, is filled with synthetic amniotic fluid that allows the fetus to breathe, supporting thegrowth of the lungs, much like the mothers placenta would do. Oxygen-rich blood is pumped into the bag and excess CO2 is removed.

The device would enable extreme preterm babies the chance to develop their lungs and other vital organs, serving as a bridge to support them during a critical period before getting to the outside world.

CHOP researchers, led by fetal surgeon Dr. Alan Flake, have gone through four prototypes, including a glass incubator tank, before settling on the current design. They conducted pre-clinical studies and tested the artificial womb with fetal lambs, in which the prenatal development of these organs is very similar to that of humans.

Previous womb-like incubator systems have lasted only 60 hours, but CHOPs device operates for up to four weeks. The baby sheep remained healthy and showed normal functions and organ maturation; they breathe, swallow, open their eyes and grow wool. In the next decade, the team envisions to having a licensed device to support premature infants and help get them over the 28-week threshold, instead of being artificially ventilated inside current incubators.

Aside from supporting naturally born babies, the biobag, once its capable enough to cover the whole gestation period, could serve as a surrogate device. Women with infertility problems or conditions that make pregnancy hazardous, or even as a personal or professional decision, could use such a birth mother device.

Hopefully, this would cut through expensive surrogacy programs that labor to find compatible mothers among a sea of willing applicants.

Or maybe this technology will be harvested for less humanitarian and more profit-driven purposes. Perhaps then we will really see cloned organ surrogates like from the movie, The Island. What would you do if we started cloning humans for organ reclamation?

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Fifteen years ago a group of Texas A&M researchers and their students welcomed CC into the world the first cloned cat.

CCs birth marked an important milestone in cloning, and now A&M researchers are exploring new areas of cloning, looking to improve animal and human life. A&M is working to make animals that are more productive on less land by genetically engineering animals with enhanced characteristics.

Mark Westhusin, professor of veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences, said his teams research uses living bioreactors, an apparatus that supports chemical processes within a living organism.

We have genetically modified goats that produce malaria vaccine in their milk, Westhusin said. One goat is estimated to be able to produce 8 million doses of the vaccine in a lactation period, or year.

Veterinary physiology and pharmacology professor Charles Long played a key role in CCs cloning and currently researches early embryonic development and strategies to feed a growing world population.

The genetic engineering part comes about because clones are genetically identical to the donor animal, Long said. They dont have any kind of improvement over the original. So, when we start thinking about genetic engineering in terms of what we do in our lab we are trying to take what characteristics nature gives us in this breed of cattle and apply them to this breed of cattle, for example.

A more direct result of cloning research takes place in the departments embryonic development research.

[Clones] had all kinds of little things that werent unusual, but they were more common in clones than what we would see in normal births, Long said. The cloning really led to us investigating those interactions of the sperm and egg and how the embryo is altered by its environment. That all stemmed from trying to understand why clones arent always normal.

Understanding how environments affect embryos is a growing concern for the human population, according to Long, as assisted reproduction practices grow more popular among people.

Approximately 1 to 2 percent of all babies born in the United States now are born through assisted reproductive technologies, Long said. Because of the prevalence of those kinds of offspring being born it is important for us to really understand how the embryo reacts to its environment when its outside the mother.

Long hopes this research will reveal whether or not embryonic environment exposures have long term effects on diseases in offspring.

Duane Kraemer, the researcher who conducted CCs embryo transfer and now acts as CCs caretaker, said CC spends her time in the Kraemers backyard with her 11-year-old offspring. For Kraemer, research after producing CC has included developing an oral contraceptive for wild hogs.

The wild pigs do a lot of damage, Kraemer said. Being a reproductive physiologist, and wild pigs being a big problem I decided that would be something we ought to work on.

The contraceptive would be placed in feeders that only pigs can eat from to make sure no other animals get into the feed. Kraemer said the oral contraceptive his research team and other departments at Texas A&M are working on is a more humane alternative to the blood thinner recently approved by the Texas Secretary of Agriculture for killing wild pigs.

Its not a pretty sight the death that they experience with that, Kraemer said. So a lot of people are objecting to it.

Research conducted by Texas A&M has certainly changed since CC came into the world, and the researchers who worked to produce her say these changes have been an improvement.

Our research has always been driven by trying to improve the lives of animals and humans, Westhusin said.

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Cloning long lasting implications: What if we could recreate dinosaurs? Pictured Jurassic Park The Ride- as science permeates popular culture.

The fantasy of Jurassic Park may not be so far-fetched as it seemed when Steven Spielbergs modern masterpiece was released.

The discovery last year of the fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex which was pregnant when it died, led scientists to believe they are a step closer to cloning one of the earths most feared predators (and perhaps most sensitive lovers).

It contained one of modern cinemas iconic moments when the eye of the T-rex peered through the car window, looking for any hint of prey. The film spawned three sequels and a whole sub-industry which fed the ravenous desire of the movie-going public.

Over thirty video games have been released since the original Jurassic Park was released. The film has become firmly entrenched in pop culture and fashion with t-shirts and all manner of paraphernalia manufactured down the years.

Inevitably, theme parks got in on the act with Universal including rides of the same name at their sites, while in Japan there is a park devoted to the movies. Other parks ratcheted up the presence of dinosaur attractions but as technology becomes more prevalent, the franchise endures with apps and slots games, such as Jurassic Park hosted at Betway Casino.

Dinosaurs hold a particular fascination for most people. Children love the notion of their existence which never really dies out in adulthood. With regular excavations of fossils, there is a seemingly unending supply of news stories to keep the giant lizards firmly in our minds.

2016s revelations are the more palatable side of the cloning debate. Theres a fantasy element which seems quite detached from reality the obvious risk of cloning a creature whose primary instinct is to hunt. The film Godzilla offers a hint of the mayhem which might ensue, as did this adventurous vacation back in 2011.

Unless, of course, there is a dinosaur equivalent of Barbara Woodhouse to train the cloned dinosaurs to Sit! or get ready for Walkies!

Hello Dolly

The flippancy masks serious issues about cloning human beings. Dolly the sheep was the first step down that path while stem cell research offers an insight in the problems surrounding the science.

Dolly wasnt a resounding success. The process used 277 eggs with just one surviving through to full term. It underlines the precarious nature of cloning mammals.

Human cloning is some way off. The technology is not yet safe enough to take the science through to a conclusion.

The ethics produces powerful arguments against full cloning of humans. Even the lesser level of stem cell research has caused strident arguments.

Literature offers us damning visions of the impact of cloning on society in the future. Aldous Huxleys Brave New World disguises cloning as Bokanovskys Process. Human beings are produced in hatcheries, given a specific caste which dictates their role in society.

Its a fairly standard concept for the dystopian world of the year 2540. One of the United Nations objections to cloning is on the basis that it denies the clone the right to self-determination. Fundamentally, their future is mapped out due to the genetics of another being.

Huxleys protagonists, Marx and Watson, end up in exile from the World State Society because of their free anti-social is the phrase the author used thinking. The U.N.s objections to cloning are disregarded on the path to conformity.

Most typically in popular culture, cloning is used for nefarious ends. The Hitman franchise provides an army of barcoded assassins, with the presumption of cloning while the X-Files covered the topic in the episode entitled, Eve.

The most famous franchise of the lot, Star Wars, had two bites at the cloning cherry with Episode II Attack of the Clones, as well as the animated series, The Clone Wars. A planet of clones produced for war? I wonder what the famous Star Wars kid of yesteryear, would have to say if he too, got the cloning treatment?

Whichever way it is covered there is more than one neer-do-well involved. The innocence and scientific nobility of John Hammond in Jurassic Park is rarely matched elsewhere.

That escapism while highlighting the potential dangers of dinosaurs roaming the earth, had a powerful fantasy element. The reality of a cloned future from other minds is somewhat less appealing. Forgive me if I prefer my clones through the imaginations of others.

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Cloning: What are the long-lasting implications? - scallywagandvagabond

The process of taking existing technology and re-branding it into something different is becoming increasingly popular among startups. Smart phones and tablets are now forever ingrained into our society, and during the last two decades alone, have given birth to the application industry, which is now worth $77 billion. While the process of programming and app development is becoming more accessible and cheaper than ever before, there is also more competition to contend with. While utilizing ready-made applications may seem counter-productive when starting a new business, if executed correctly, this approach can be a viable way to get a foothold in the marketplace.

Take a look at a few of today's most popular applications: Telegram is a clone of Whatsapp, Vimeo is a clone of YouTube, Alibaba is a clone of Amazon, and the list goes on... None of these couplings are doing anything different from each other, they simply have alternative branding the originals are broad while the clones (2nd tier) are niche. For example, YouTube is an all rounder, while Vimeo is geared towards filmmakers.

If you can address the branding of your clone app properly, there's no reason why you can't launch a successful 2nd tier application of your own.

Competing with the Corporate Giants

You simply cannot compete with some of the big players on a broad scale, but you can certainly compete with them on a niche scale. It's all about finding an untapped opportunity that the larger corporations aren't covering, and then filling the gap. For example, Uber may have a worldwide presence, particularly in big cities, but what if you could take the platform and set up a local Uber clone in your own town?

Services such as Appoets make this entire process extremely simple. Just look at how many clones of Tinder have popped up since it took the helm as the world's most active dating app. Applications that use the same swipe right platform are becoming a universal standard; however, there are still plenty of niche groups out there that are yet to acquire their own platform. Find one and you'll start your business half way down the sales funnel from the get-go.

App cloning is faster than outright creation, often taking just a matter of weeks (sometimes days) to launch. In addition, there are less unknowns. You simply use a template that has already located and solved any problems. Beyond changing the color scheme, logos and logistical elements (prices, terms and conditions, etc.) you'll need to do very little.

Cloning is an excellent way to get started, but it's not a shortcut to the big leagues as you will always be number two to the original. But you should never go into business with the intention of completing with the creators anyway as they are not your prime competition the other clones are. In fact, many developers regard the niche clones of their broad app as a benefit as it's a way for them to test new markets for free, and then buy-out the successes.

For example, in 1999 the Samwer Brothers from Germany created the first Ebay clone (Alando.de). Within 100 days of launching its popularity soared and it was sold to Ebay for $50 million. A similar situation occurred in Sweden with a website called Tradera, which also sold to Ebay for $50 million in 2006. In both instances it was a win-win for all involved parties: the clone developers used an existing platform to build a sustainable business model and Ebay managed to break into new territories as a dominant force without having to undertake a marketing campaign or battle the competition.

App cloning may sound simple and the process is but just like any other business, it still requires diligence and hard work. While it can certainly ease pressure in the early stages of development, it's the marketing plan that will have the biggest impact on the app's success.

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How App Cloning Can Open Doors For Specialized Tech Startups - Huffington Post

India's most valuable business is earning money hand over fist from oil. Yet what's exciting investors about Reliance Industries Ltd. are its telecoms losses.

Those should go some way toward creating the Indian equivalent of Verizon Communications Inc., the largest U.S. wireless carrier. Or at least that's what the stock's 38 percent jump this year in dollar terms is all about.

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Optimism over its telecom foray has helped oil refiner Reliance displace software exporter Tata Consultancy as India's most valuable company

Source: Bloomberg

Over the past 12 months, Reliance's refinery on India's western coast has garnered $11 from each barrel of crude oil, beating the Singapore refining benchmark by an impressive $5 a barrel. With neither domestic gas production nor overseas shale output doing much, Chairman Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, is betting on his almost-completed investments in refining and petrochemicals to shore up earnings and cash flow.

The strategy is working, but it's a mere footnote compared with Ambani's more daring gamble on Reliance Jio, the recently launched telecoms unit that's already supplying more than 1 billion gigabytes of data a month, almost as much as all U.S. networks put together.

While a haul of 100 million users over 170 days isn't to be scoffed at, it's thanks to a free trial that only recently turned into a paid-for (though attractively priced) introductory offer.The steady-state average revenue per user is still the big unknown.

With Jio's entry in September, rivals Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Vodafone Group Plc have cut tariffs. A 60 percent slump in fourth-generation, or 4G, data charges has meant that even with traffic surging fivefold in a year, industry revenue growth has been practically flat, according to S&P Global's Indian affiliate, Crisil.

It's hard to know when the dust will settle, though Reliance's assertion that it's"well-positioned" to achieve a share of revenue above 50 percent by 2021, when India's data market will top $46 billion a year, shows Ambani is betting big on a "winner takes all" effect.

Nothing wrong with that. As Crisil researchers say, Verizon's success has demonstrated quite clearly that market leadership is worth bleeding for. For almost a decade, the largest U.S. network has enjoyed a return on capital that's 5 to 10 percentage points higher than its competitors'.

Even by Verizon's standards, Ambani's goal of a 50 percent-plus Ebitda margin for Jio is ambitious, though. The U.S. carrier, which has a customer churn rate of just 1.4 percent -- compared with 4 percent to 6 percent in the hyper-competitive Indian market -- took in 45 percent of its revenue as earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization last quarter.

Reward of Leadership

Verizon's No. 1 position among U.S. telcos has meant a higher return on capital, a strategy India's Reliance Industries wants to copy with its aggressive price war

Source: Bloomberg

In its first six months of operations, Jio's loss tripled from a year earlier to $3.5 million. That's a rounding error for a conglomerate that earned more than$1.2 billion during the March quarter.

The pressure to perform comes from the staggering $30 billion Ambani has spent on the 4G network. Roughly a quarter of Reliance Industries' share price now reflects the enterprise value of the telecoms business, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. As Gadfly has previously noted, investors would be impressed by Jio's ability to get to 200 million stable customers, each spending at least $4 a month.

Ambani's 4G bet

$30 billion

That won't be enough to turn Jio into India's Verizon. At least it will be a start.

This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.

To contact the author of this story: Andy Mukherjee in Singapore at amukherjee@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Matthew Brooker at mbrooker1@bloomberg.net

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By the time theyre 50, 85 percent of American men will have significant hair loss, says the American Hair Loss Association.

Now, an international team of hair restoration doctors is turning to cutting-edge science to grow more hair through cloning.

Ric Ortega has dealt with hair loss for a while. For him, it's a health concern.

Im outside a lot because I work in the construction industry, and I worry about skin cancer on the top of my head, he explains.

Ric is considering a hair cloning clinical trial with Dr. Ken Williams, a hair restoration surgeon in California.

Williams is working with Hair Clone, a British company that believes it will perfect the science of cloning hair.

The typical candidate would be someone who has had multiple surgeries and cant have any more hair transplantations, but they have lots of areas of balding," Williams explains.

Doctors would harvest 50 hair follicles and send them to a cryopreservation tank in England. Surgeons there would remove the hair shaft from the bulb, which holds cells that control growth. Then, the cells are multiplied, in a special cell culture.

Then, when the patient is ready, they have the actual transplantation. They would let us know and wed go through the process of replication, and getting those 50 cells will now turn into 1500 cells, Williams says.

The trial would cost Ric between $4,000-$10,000 plus air fare to England, where hed get his cloned hair. England is the only western country that allows this type of treatment.

Williams says hair cloning is the next biggest frontier in hair science. Hair Clone hopes to start a small trial in England later this year.

The good news is that companies around the world are racing to start hair cloning trials as soon as they can.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS RESEARCH SUMMARY

TOPIC: HAIR CLONING IS REALLY HAPPENING! REPORT: MB #4249

BACKGROUND: By the age of thirty-five two-thirds of American men will experience some degree of hair loss and by the age of fifty approximately 85 percent of men have significantly thinning hair. Hereditary hair loss that comes with age is the most common cause of baldness, and can happen gradually or suddenly. Types of hair loss include gradual thinning on the top of the head (which is most common), patchy bald spots, sudden hair loss caused by emotional or physical shock, or patches of scaling that spread over the scalp which is a sign of ringworm. The most common cause of hair loss is a hereditary condition called male-pattern baldness. The loss and thinning of hair can begin as early as puberty but usually affects men as they age. Hormone imbalances, immune system issues, radiation therapy to the head, medications, and other skin disorders are causes of hair loss. Poor nutrition, certain medical conditions (such as diabetes and lupus), and stress are some of the risk factors leading to hair loss. Some treatments for hair loss include Rogaine (foam rubbed into the scalp), Propecia (prescription pill), surgery, wigs and hairpieces, or a recent treatment called hair cloning.

Source: (http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hair-loss/basics/definition/con-20027666)

TREATMENT: Hair cloning is a promising treatment for male-pattern baldness. In hair cloning, a sample of a persons hair follicle cells are multiplied outside the body (in vitro), and then they are re-implanted into the scalp with the hope that they will grow new hair follicles and result in new permanent hair. The main challenge in cloning is that hair follicles cannot grow on their own, yet they are too complex to be grown in test tubes. There may be safety concerns that cells that induce hair may also induce tumors and once this issue is resolved, the FDA still must approve hair cloning for safety and effectiveness. There are plans for clinical trials in the U.S. and will hopefully be approved in upcoming years. Source: (https://www.bernsteinmedical.com/hair-cloning/)

EMOTIONAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH HAIR LOSS: A study revealed that men who had more profound hair loss were more dissatisfied with their appearance and were more concerned with their look than those with minimal hair loss. Studies have shown that in men who suffer from hair loss, nearly 75% of them feel less confident since the onset of hair loss, especially in dealing with the opposite sex. In extreme circumstances, hair loss can cause distress and result in depression. Source: (http://www.emedexpert.com/tips/hair-loss-effects.shtml)

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