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Apple’s campus is a surreal place to be. You’re surrounded by a loop of buildings where some of the most advanced technological innovation is going on behind closed doors. That excitement aside, another great thing about being on campus was being able to dine at Café Mac. Café Mac is Apple’s cafeteria/restaurant for employees. It’s some of the best food you’ll ever eat and the café rivals whatever Google has. But I loved Café Mac for more than the food. It is a place where you can meet and mingle with people from all different departments, be that legal, marketing, IS&T, software, or hardware.

Now before I go any further, let me state right now that every single Apple employee I’ve ever met takes their NDAs very seriously and no employee has ever revealed insider knowledge or let any secrets slip (to me anyway). I’ve remained iChat friends with a bunch of Apple employee’s I’ve met from some very cool departments on various trips to campus. I can tell you, though Apple would never admit to being influenced by sites like Engadget or TUAW, individuals at Apple do read those sites and do take into consideration what they read on them.

Now, here’s where you come in: I know there’s been a ton of excitement about the impending Apple iSlate, but let’s not forget that, if past years are any indication, the iPhone OS 4.0 will be previewed sometime this Spring with a probable Summer release. I’m sure you all have your hopes and dreams what you want the next iPhone and iPhone OS to include, so here’s your chance to get your voices heard – hopefully by many of the people on Apple’s campus too.

I’m writing a series of features about what people want in the next iPhone and I need you to send me emails detailing what you would like to see in it. I’ll have one iPhone article a week for the next month. Each article will deal with a specific wished-for area of the iPhone: next week’s article will deal with the iPhone OS as a whole (settings, home screen, search, general behavior, etc.). Week two’s article will cover iPhone hardware, while week three and four will cover the iPhone’s built-in apps like Mail, Maps, Calendar, etc.

Until Friday, January 8, I’ll be collecting your wishes and ideas for the next “general” iPhone OS. You have until then to email me your feedback, wants, mock-ups, and concept drawings. Don’t be afraid to link to concepts you’ve seen at other places on the web either. And don’t be afraid to borrow features from the Palm Os or Android, too. If they have something you like there’s no reason Apple can’t learn from them, so by all means include it if you think it would make the iPhone better. I’ll present everything you guys tell me in an article and hopefully the boys in Cupertino will take notice.

Only feedback sent to tuawiphone [at] me dot com will be considered, but please feel free to lash out your thoughts in the comments too. Also, please only send me your “general OS” wish-lists now, or things could get lost in my mail box if you send your hardware wishes for articles down the line, etc. And, judging from the amount of email I’ll get, it would be a great help if you could put your ideas in list form with a description for each if necessary.

TUAWTUAW readers: Help us tell Apple what you want in the next iPhone! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kathy Griffin is making four-letter words a New Year’s Eve tradition at CNN.

The Atlanta-based cable news network has issued a public apology after the Bravo reality star and outspoken funnywoman swore during CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve countdown for the second year in a row.

Kathy was a guest host on news channel CNN’s end-of-year program live from Times Square on Thursday when she let the F-word slip during a discussion about the Balloon Boy scandal with co-host Anderson Cooper. Kathy joked about how to pronounce the first name of Falcon Heene – the 6-year-old at the center of the hoax.

“Fal– F**kin’? Falcon? How do you say it?” Kathy asked. “You’re terrible. Really terrible,” Anderson chided her, shaking his head.

During CNN’s 2008 broadcast, Kathy fired off the foul taunt at a crowd heckler.

CNN producers promptly issued a statement on Friday apologizng to viewers for Kathy’s on-screen outburst. The network says it “regrets that profanity was used during our New Year’s Eve coverage.”

Kathy, on the other hand, was less than apologetic

In a statement released by her publicist Friday, Griffin made light of the joke: “Like every other serious reporter covering the now infamous balloon boy hoax, I struggled to pronounce his name ‘Falcon’ correctly and have gotten a kick out of how many ways I’ve heard it pronounced by other serious reporters. Just add me to that list and happy new year!”

When sked whether Griffin would be invited back next year, CNN spokeswoman Shimrit Sheetrit said planning for the 2011 celebration hadn’t yet begun.

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Of course Rush would probably think any health system is “just dandy,” mainly because he is a multi-millionaire and can afford the best health care wherever he might be. But this is not the case for tens of millions of Americans who are unable to afford care or insurance due to the rising costs of health care in the U.S.

But it’s also odd that Limbaugh would cite his experience in Hawaii as evidence that the U.S. health care system is “fine” seeing that Hawaii has already passed reform measures similar to those that Congress is currently considering as part of comprehensive reform — measures that Limbaugh has constantly been attacking.

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2010 Toyota Etios Concept teaser

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It’s been an amazing few months here at Gizmodo, but if I recall correctly there’s some cliché that goes something like “all that cool stuff you’ve been doing, you will eventually stop doing.” I’ve got a new gig I’m starting up this week, and unfortunately that means I won’t be writing for the site anymore.

There were so many “wow this is cool” moments during my time here that I can’t even begin to count them. I mean, how can you not love a job that involves “playing” a laser synth guitar and writing about some guy hacking a cheeseburger?

One moment in particular summarizes just how incredible this job has been. I was working in the Gawker office during my first week and at one point was watching a Youtube video. But I kept getting paranoid whenever someone walked behind me. I was new, and I didn’t want anyone to think I was slacking off. So every time it happened I would quickly hide the browser window. But then I had a startling realization: It was my job to be watching that video.

That was just one of the many awesome moments I had during my time here. Hopefully I was able to share some of that awesomeness with you readers. Thank you all for following along.

As much fun as it’s been though, my old gadgets and I are riding off into the sunset. But before I go, let me give an especially big thanks to everyone in the welcoming and helpful Gizmodo family. I can’t thank you all enough for everything you’ve taught me.

It’s been a blast everyone. I’ll see you around in the comments,

Chris

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HepG2 cells derived from a human hepatocellular carcinoma line (We et al., 2006). Hepatoblastoma (HB) or hepatocellular carcinoma is an embryonal malignancy of hepatocellular origin and the most common primary liver tumor of childhood, usually presenting in the first year of life. I have described mcf-7, human breast cancer cell line before.
 
HepG2 cell line has been the subject of significant confusion for almost 30 years (Dolores et al., 2009). It has been found to express a wide variety of liver-specific metabolic functions (Norman et al., 1992). Therefore, HepG2 has been widely used in varieties of fields like liver metabolism, development, oncogenesis and hepatoxicity at that time in cancer research (Dolores et al., 2009).

 
HepG2 cell line has been introduced since 1979 (Norman et al., 1992). Until now, there are more than nine thousands HepG2 references can be found in the scientific literature (Dolores et al., 2009). HepG2 cell line is known to be capable of producing many plasma proteins for which there are antisera commercially available (Liu et al., 1985).
 
This cell line has been proved to be an useful model of the human liver cell as there is high proportion of liver-specific proteins identified in the medium. The metabolic pathways that have been studied appear to simulate the behaviour of normal hepatocytes. Thus, those studies encourage a wider application of this HepG2 cell line to biologic problems that relate specifically to the role of the liver (Norman et al., 1992).
 
Reference:

Dolores L-T, Sau W. C., Milton J. F. & Barbara B. K. HepG2 is a        Hepatoblastoma-derived Cell Line. Oncology Stat, 1512 – 1515 (2009).
 
Liu M-C, Yu S., Jose Sy, Colvin M. R. & Fritz L. Tyrosine Sulfation of Proteins      from the Human Hepatoma Cell Line HepG2. Proc Natl Acad Sci 82      (21), 7160 – 7164 (1985).
 
Norman B. J. HepG2 Cells As a Resource for Metabolic Studies: Lipoprotein,       Choresterol, and Bile Acids.  The FASEB Journal 4, 161 – 168 (1992).

HepG2 – Human Liver Cancer Cell Line is a post from: Cytogenetics and Cancer Research

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