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A complete organ 'lab grown' is world's first
A whole functional organ has been grown from scratch inside an animal for the first time, say researchers in Scotland. A group of cells developed into a thymus - a critical part of the immune system - when transplanted into mice. The findings, published in Nature Cell Biology, could pave the way to alternatives to organ transplantation.
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DNA From This Ugly Fish Is Being Used to Synthesize Bulletproof Slime
If you have ever seen a picture or a video of a hagfish, it's probably been on some roundup of the ocean's most horrifying creatures. But the DNA within that very creature, often known as a "slime eel," just might be the key to creating sustainable, biodegradable plastic and lighter bulletproof clothing.
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Sugar Batteries Runs 10x Longer Than Lithium-ion Batteries
The energy-dense sugar 'biobattery' is cheaper than the lithium-ion battery and lasts longer.
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Internet Telepathy? Thoughts Transmitted Online
A person in India successfully transmitted the thoughts using a mental 'Morse Code' to three people in France.
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Graphene paints a corrosion-free future
The surface of graphene, a one atom thick sheet of carbon, can be randomly decorated with oxygen to create graphene oxide; a form of graphene that could have a significant impact on the chemical, pharmaceutical and electronic industries. Applied as paint, it could provide an ultra-strong, non-corrosive ...
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For $100,000, You Can Clone Your Dog
Behind glass in a never-before-used operating room inside a just-built cabin at the end of a freshly paved road, Dr. Hwang Woo Suk is chasing rogue flies with an electrified bug swatter that looks like a small tennis racket. He wears baby blue scrubs branded with the logo of Sooam Biotech, his South Korea-based research company, and is making final checks of this temporary facility, erected from scratch in eight days in the Chinese city of Weihai.
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3-D-printed organs are on the way
Add one more to the growing list of 3-D-printed products: human organs. California-based biotech firm Organovo (ONVO) is set to begin selling 3-D-printed liver tissue by the end of the year, part of the growing movement to bring the technology to the medical field.
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Night vision eyedrops: Californian scientists make illuminating new discovery
It might sound like something straight out of Q’s laboratory or the latest Marvel film but a group of scientists in California have successfully created eye drops that temporarily enable night vision.
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Condom of the future feels 'better than nothing at all'
A group of scientists in Australia is developing a series of condoms which it claims could feel even better than wearing nothing at all.
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Pain-blocking organic electronic implant less than a decade away for human use - Factor
A tiny device that blocks severe pain caused by nerve damage is set to be implanted in sufferers of the condition within five to ten years, according to its creators from Linköping University (LiU) and Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden.
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Drugs: Regulate 'home-brew' opiates
The research community and the public require a fast, flexible response to the synthesis of morphine by engineered yeasts, urge Kenneth Oye, Tania Bubela and J. Chappell H. Lawson.
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B.C. doctor says perfect vision possible with Bionic Lens
Imagine being able to see three times better than 20/20 vision without wearing glasses or contacts -- even at age 100 or more -- with the help of bionic lenses implanted in your eyes.
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Brain-Controlled Bionic Legs Are Finally Here
No, really. Amputees have been testing them for over a year
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Needle Injects Healing Electronics into the Brain : DNews
Tiny mesh electronics stuffed into a needle are injected into brain, where they could repair damage or deliver therapeutic stem cells.
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Biotech firm creates fake rhino horn to help save real rhinos
A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3 D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans to flood Chinese market with these cheap horns to curb poaching.
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These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could Be Worth Billions
Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations that make one person nearly immune to pain
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Scientists unveil a new process for on-demand biomanufacturing of designer proteins
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A Bad Bet on Synthetic Biology
Earlier this month, the international food conglomerate Cargill chose the famous Las Vegas Strip to introduce what it hopes will be its next blockbuster product: EverSweet, a stevia sweetener that contains no stevia. What happened in Vegas should stay in Vegas. By Silvia Ribeiro and Jim Thomas.
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Synthetic biology lures Silicon Valley investors
Tech funders warm to start-ups that use microbes in manufacturing.
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Mylan, Theranos, and Valeant Resort to Unsavory Governance Practices
Investors have suspended their judgment and blessed unsavory practices at firms like Mylan, Theranos, Valeant, and Turing Pharmaceuticals. By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
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