Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle - Health - Heart health - msnbc.com

Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle - Health - Heart health - msnbc.com

Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.

The researchers, based in Haifa, Israel, said there were still many years of testing and refining ahead. But the results meant they might eventually be able to reprogram patients' cells to repair their own damaged hearts.

"We have shown that it's possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his own beating cells in a laboratory dish that are healthy and young - the equivalent to the stage of his heart cells when he was just born," said Lior Gepstein from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who led the work.

The researchers, whose study was published in the European Heart Journal on Wednesday, said clinical trials of the technique could begin within 10 years.

Data-Mining in Doctor's Office Helps Solve Medical Mysteries - Businessweek

Data-Mining in Doctor's Office Helps Solve Medical Mysteries - Businessweek

Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans- This is BIG!

Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans

Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans

by   sharepointblog@live.com   on  4/24/2012 2:46 AM

Category:  SharePoint storage

"Business is business and business must grow.”

-Once-ler from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.

Your feedback was clear: “We need more online storage and it needs to be cheaper.”

So we adjusted the SharePoint Online service accordingly—both in per tenant storage quota limits and the cost of additional storage. Now, you can be less constrained as you plan your content management strategy and determine how and where you share files and manage projects.

Tenant storage quota limit increase—Now up to 25 terabytes(TB)           

Individual customers (tenants) can now consume up to 25TB of data and content, compared to the previous per tenant limit of 5TB.  As a result, storage limits are no longer such a barrier. Go ahead and create new documents, share them, version them, move them from DRAFT to FINAL, review and approve them, populate lists, publish forms, generate new sites, upload marketing assets, create company-wide Document Centers, design your company intranet, and more.

Additional storage costs decrease—A 92 percent price reduction

Along with the recent price reductions across Office 365, the SharePoint Online additional storage add-on has decreased by 92 percent effective immediately. The reduction translates to a drop from U.S. $2.50 per GB/month, to $0.20 per GB/month. Yes, you read that right—20 cents each month. So if you need more storage than you originally received by default, go ahead. You won’t break the bank.

Downloads « SharePoint Automation

Downloads « SharePoint Automation

SharePoint Dev Toolbelt - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com

SharePoint Dev Toolbelt - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com

Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains - Tammy Erickson - Harvard Business Review#.T6KPa3gGLTE.twitter

Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains - Tammy Erickson - Harvard Business Review#.T6KPa3gGLTE.twitter

SharePoint 2010 at Work - The SharePoint Maturity Model - Sadie Van Buren - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com

SharePoint 2010 at Work - The SharePoint Maturity Model - Sadie Van Buren - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com

Creating Chart Reports in SSRS SQL Server 2008 R2 — DatabaseJournal.com

Creating Chart Reports in SSRS SQL Server 2008 R2 — DatabaseJournal.com


SQL Server Reporting Services provides several ways to analyze data; one of them is creating Chart reports. With Chart reports you can analyze the aggregated information (either on small or large volumes of data) at a glance. But before you start creating Chart reports it’s essential to understand and prepare the data to be analyzed so that you can choose the appropriate chart type and create the report quickly and efficiently.

In this article, I am going to demonstrate how you can go about creating, modifying and beautifying the chart report easily and quickly.

Creating a Chart Report in BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio)

If you are new to SSRS or you are creating an SSRS project for the first time, the first thing that you need to do is to create an SSRS project. To do that, go to START -> All Programs -> SQL Server 2008 R2 (if you have installed SQL Server 2008 R2) and click on SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. On the New Project dialog box select the "Report Server Project" template and then specify the name and location for the project as shown below:

Metro Style Site Directory for SharePoint Using EMCAScript - Fear and Loathing

Metro Style Site Directory for SharePoint Using EMCAScript - Fear and Loathing

Metro Style Site Directory for SharePoint Using EMCAScript

I’ve always been trying to come up with a useful and clever way to allow users to navigate around SharePoint sites. Recently I put together an “Application Directory” which basically displayed a menu system to navigate around apps. Using the JavaScript Class Library for SharePoint to pull values out of SharePoint I quickly put together something that normally would be a lot of C# code and a web part.

The EMCAScript object model is powerful in that you can quickly pull data out of SharePoint sites and lists and make a pleasant user experience with just a little JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery. It still will make a call back to the server to fetch the data but it’s done asynchronously so the perception to the user is almost seamless.

This post walks you through building a site directory of sorts. It could be used as a landing page on a top level site collection or as a web part sitting on a team site (to show the contents below the site). It’s up to you but the net result is a nice navigation system (done with a little “Metro” styling) all done in a hundred lines of JavaScript.

SP2010-Tasks-Lists-Rollup

SP2010-Tasks-Lists-Rollup

Pie and Bar Charts (Google connector) « Path to SharePoint

Pie and Bar Charts (Google connector) « Path to SharePoint

Bright-Green.com: How To Estimate A Software Project

Bright-Green.com: How To Estimate A Software Project

There are many, many ways to estimate a software project, ranging from formal models that can only be worked by a University professor through to a salesperson's hopeful guess.

Here we present a simple, proven software project estimation method that produces reasonably accurate results and has been used estimate substantial fixed price work.

This method is based on a quick but robust initial design on the premise that later versions of the design will reduce the amount of work as developers come up with smart ideas for saving work.

This method also calls for participation by a substantial number of people, increasing buy-in and gaining accuracy. It also follows the principles of the Cardboard Checklist for Planning, where relevant.

3 steps to EHR training for new staff members - amednews.com

3 steps to EHR training for new staff members - amednews.com

Physician practices generally have a detailed training map that is laid out for all its doctors and staff as they implement an electronic health record system. But practices can’t lose the map once the system is up and running.

New York invests $4.2M to create 1,500 health IT jobs | Government Health IT

The New York eHealth Collaborative, the New York City Investment Fund and the New York State Department of Health have launched a $4.2 million program to foster health IT innovation and create 1,500 new jobs in the state.


New York invests $4.2M to create 1,500 health IT jobs | Government Health IT

Getting Data From a Web Service or Application Into PowerPivot | SQLServerPedia

Getting Data From a Web Service or Application Into PowerPivot

by Melissa Coates

Overview:  Recently I was asked if PowerPivot could get data from a Web service.  This post discusses how you could make happen if an Atom-aware Data Feed is available.

Getting Data From a Web Service or Application Into PowerPivot | SQLServerPedia