“The availability of personalised bone grafts engineered from the patient’s own stem cells would revolutionise the way we currently treat these defects.”

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, of Columbia University, comments on what her team’s creation of a new bone from stem cells might mean for people suffering from joint problems (BBC).

“Why should the tobacco company be mucking around in private thoughts? They can see it when it is finished.”

Robert Proctor, history of science professor at Stanford University, explains why the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company shouldn’t get to see his unfinished book in order to cross examine him as a witness against them in a law suit (The Chronicle of Higher Ed).

“Because they run so fast they create a bubble as their feet hit the water and then they push off from this bubble before it bursts.”

Simon Blakeney, BBC television producer, has been filming the ‘Jesus lizards’ that run on water (film on BBC).