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Kat Von D’s tattoo shop High Voltage damaged in fire (Video)

Kat Von D's tattoo shop High Voltage damaged in fire (Video)

Kat Von D’s infamous tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, caught fire in the early morning of Thursday, Oct. 23. It was put out less than a half hour later, but the reality television star unleashed a torrent of fury on surrounding photographers and media following the blaze, telling them that they should be ashamed of themselves for making such a …

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Sean Harrington cop accused of forwarding nude suspect photos (Video)

Sean Harrington cop accused of forwarding nude suspect photos

Sean Harrington, a California Highway Patrol officer, is accused of having surreptitiously downloaded and forwarded nude photos from the phone of a woman he pulled over for a DUI stop. Prosecutors in Contra Costa County are seeking felony computer theft charges against Officer Sean Harrington, who investigators said stole the photos during an Aug. 29 traffic stop.

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Scientists Convert Skin Cells into Brain Cells

Scientists Convert Skin Cells into Brain Cells

Researchers have found a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells. The breakthrough could lead to a cure for Huntington’s disease, an incurable fatal neurodegenerative disorder. The scientists, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, demonstrated that these converted cells survived at least six months after injection into the brains of mice and behaved similarly to native …

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