As we mark the 10th anniversary since the Nasdaq reached its peak on March 10, 2000, it's clear that the next generation of dot-coms has emerged from the rubble of the bust with a saner, healthier philosophy, more focused on running a tight ship and more careful about raising and spending investors' money.

For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly with mood-stabilizing drugs. Suddenly, the yawns are being replaced by eurekas. As awareness spreads that lithium is a crucial ingredient for hybrid and electric cars, a global hunt is under way for new supplies of the metal.

A hub for regenerative medical research opens today in Sacramento, putting the University of California, Davis, in the forefront of stem cell research. UC Davis already is testing dozens of therapies in the laboratory, such as HIV treatments and organ regeneration, and is even using stem cells to repair injuries in horses.

The state's nonpartisan legislative analyst's office says the losses could occur in the short term. State Sen. David Cogdill uses the report to criticize climate regulation

The abuse of words like innovation, disruption, game changing and breakthrough is killing us. We're tripping over our own egos, lost in the ignorance of romance for the vagaries of pseudo-thinking associated with these words.

The marketplace should be drooling. One expert after another talked about laboratory wonders and the promise they hold at Monday’s Missouri Regional Life Sciences Summit Yet there was frustration, too, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City conference about finding investors to bridge the gap between technological breakthrough and ready-for-market development.