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Israeli researchers develop advanced biological computer
Scientists at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed a computing machine by the help of merely biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes). This device, advanced biological transducer - a device that converts a signal in one
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New and intriguing clues to the origin of life on Earth
The results obtained so far in an exciting line of research supports the idea that 10 amino acids, which are thought to have existed at the Earth some 4000 million years, could alone form proteins with the ability to fold into a saline.
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Could An Extraterrestrial Message Be Encoded In Our DNA?
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | 1 month ago
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Posted by JacobSloan on April 8, 2013 Could a message have been inserted into our genetics billions of years ago, as the most durable method of communicating with intelligent life eons later? Discovery News ponders: Could our genes have an
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Clostridium difficile antibiotic-resistant infections rapidly spreading in hospitals worldwide
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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Two closely related strains of clostridium difficile, better known as C. diff, have become resistant to antibiotics, allowing them to spread rapidly to hospitals around the world, according to a new study. The researchers have also managed to show
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Alien message embedded in our genetic code?
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | 1 month ago
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According to a new theory, human genetic code is embedded with a "designer label" that may be an indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilisation that preceded us by many millions or billions of years. Researchers Vladimir I shCherbak of al-
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Using DNA to Make Your Polymers. No Enzymes Needed.
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Here's an ingenious use for DNA that never would have occurred to me. David Liu and co-workers have been using DNA-templated reactions for some time, though, so it's the sort of thing that would have occurred to them: using the information of a DNA
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This Protein Could Change Biotech Forever
Warsaw :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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This could significantly accelerate the rate of discovery in all areas of biology, including gene therapy in medicine, the generation of improved agricultural goods, and the engineering of energy-producing microbes, says Luciano Marraffini of
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Engineering a Virus-Free Future
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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I have been reading a book called Regenesis where in one part the authors propose a way to re-engineer the human race so all people are resistant to all viruses, known and unknown. This will theoretically be possible in the next few decades (or even
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Alzheimer's risk gene discovered using novel imaging method that screens brain's connections
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Alzheimer's disease by screening people's DNA and then using an advanced type of scan to visualize their brains' connections. Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, erodes these connections, which we rely on to support
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Thriving cancer's 'chaos' explained
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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A study in the journal Nature showed cells that used up their raw materials became "stressed" and made mistakes copying their genetic code. Scientists said supplying the cancer with more fuel to grow may actually make it less dangerous. Most normal
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