Stem cells are the progenitors of all the body’s cells. They are capable of differentiating to generate our blood components, muscle, cartilage, bone, and fat cells, and neurons; they also replace cells that have been sidelined due to age, disease or trauma.

Money, professional experience, well-established connections, natural talent, a highly profitable idea—all are resources for creating a business. But can you start a business from scratch if you have no startup capital, but you do have skills such as filming and editing video, writing program codes for mobile applications, and creating site designs? The stories of real people we found by surfing the Internet prove that it’s possible. Make a mental note to yourself of their practical advice.

Creativity, by definition, is a phenomenon in which something new is formed. I would like you to meet a true creator—an individual whose mind functions in a unique way. On a daily basis, he produces works of novelty, including paintings, sculptures, prose, costumes and masks, wooden and bronze sculptures, and theatrical performances.

We’re at the threshold of a new technological era in the history of humankind. And although we’re still far from the future shown in science fiction movies such as The Matrix or Avatar, many of the futuristic technologies have already not only been conceived, but are now being developed.