DNA 2.0: A new operating system for life is created
from NewScientist: A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually...
View ArticleMore details on Invetech & printing 3D body parts
from Next Big Future: <- [Much more at link] [...] The printer, developed by Invetech, fits inside a standard biosafety cabinet for sterile use. It includes two print heads, one for placing human...
View ArticleSymposium: The future food supply – biotech, nanotech & synth-biology roles...
from ScienceDaily: [...] Synthetic biology, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and other applications of biotechnology — and the public’s role in determining their acceptable uses — were all addressed...
View ArticleComing Soon: Flowers that can smell like anything
from Singularity Hub: Ever wanted a rose that smelled like bananas? Maybe a petunia that reeked of root beer? Researchers at the University of Florida Gainesville have isolated 13 genes in flowers that...
View ArticleArgus III – The artificial retina is near!
from Singularity Hub: Argus seeks to create an epiretinal prosthesis, a device that will take the image from a camera and send it to your brain via your optic nerve. The first two phases of Argus...
View ArticleTiny chip made of paper diagnoses diseases and costs just a penny
from PopSci: A Harvard University chemist has created a prototype “chip” technology out of paper that could help diagnose HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases for just a penny each time,...
View ArticleNew sensors built using nanotech could read and write information directly...
from EVOKER: Telecommunications researchers in Japan are attempting to create electronic sensors that can not only receive information from the brain, but could manipulate our neural pathways....
View ArticleArteries blocked? Just take a pill & grow new ones
from Futurity: YALE (US)—A new method for growing arteries could lead to a less invasive way to treat coronary artery disease. “Instead of using growth factors, we stopped the inhibitor mechanism by...
View ArticleNanotech contact lens monitors diabetes by changing color w/ glucose level in...
from Singularity Hub: Professor Jin Zhang at the University of Western Ontario has developed contact lenses that would change color as the user’s glucose levels varied. The new device is made by...
View ArticleFuture bio-nanotechnology will use computer chips inside living cells
from nano werk: With transistors the size of tens of nanometers, researchers have begun to explore the interface of biology and electronics by integrating nanoelectronic components and living cells. If...
View ArticleVideo: Light-controlled mouse brain
from Singularity Hub: What do you get when you combine microorganisms and fiber optics? Mind control over mice and rats. A fiber optic cable is connected into a living mouse or rat with the spliced...
View ArticleBionic eye on the horizon
from Tel Aviv University (via Machines Like Us) Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give sight to blind eyes, merging retinal...
View Article“Wet computer” that mimics neurons to be created
from whatisartificialintelligence.com: The project “Wet computer” also known as Chemical or Molecular computing is a form of computational model that mimics the characteristics of the human cells,...
View ArticleBy 2020: 20 million chips implanted into living cells with computer...
from NEXT BIG FUTURE: What looks possible by 2020 if the research from five different research groups can be combined ? Here is the five things to combine- 1. Montreal researchers have created computer...
View ArticleResearchers develop new brain-like molecular processor
from ZDnet: An international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University have demonstrated a molecular circuit that can evolve continuously to solve complex problems that challenge...
View Article“Like neurons in the brain”: A molecular computer that evolves
from h+ Magazine: (Previously covered here) The press release from Michigan Tech asserts that it is “the first time a brain-like ‘evolutionary circuit’ has been realized.” His new molecular computer...
View ArticleDNA nanomachines could be produced inexpensively in almost limitless quantities
from EurekAlert: DURHAM, N.C. – In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world’s entire output of silicon chips in a month. So says a Duke...
View ArticleFirst human ‘infected with computer virus’
from BBC: A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus. Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip which was then...
View ArticleResearchers create biodegradable self-assembling DNA nanodevices that move...
from Harvard Medical School: By emulating nature’s design principles, a team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
View ArticleNano-generators can harvest electricity from your blood
from io9: New nano-generators can turn mechanical energy – like that of flowing blood – into electricity needed to power nanobots. The tiny generators are the brainchild of Dr. Yong Shi, a professor in...
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