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Posts tagged "biology"
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Organovo - the world's only commercial bioprinter →
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Genome sequencing pioneer: How biology entered the information age →
Eric Lander was one of the leaders behind the effort to sequence the human genome. He has also continued to work on various follow-up projects through his involvement with the Broad Institute, a leading sequencing center. So, Lander makes an excellent choice to provide some perspective about how the growing availability of genomes has driven the biological sciences over the last decade. He did just that at a Nobel Week Dialogue talk.
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A Planet in Peril: Is Earth Approaching a Tipping Point? →
The Earth has never stood still. Change is built into the life of the planet, whether physical changes to the surface of the Earth — through the slow action of erosion or glaciation — or biological changes to the species that populate it. We only have to go back to the last ice age — which peaked just 20,000 years ago, a coffee break in geological time — to see a climate that is utterly different from the one human beings have thrived in for the last few thousand years. Heraclitus had it right: the only constant is change.
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Synthetic Biology Explained
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Rebuilding The Human Body →
Today I’m going to focus on medical technologies that are available or being researched now that can be implanted into (or onto) humans. Specifically, I am going to talk about tech that promises to restore (and one day replace) faulty biological systems.
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Paradigm Shift in Understanding of Biology Could Alter Electronics →
The discovery that microbial nanowires inside the bacterium Geobacter sufurreducens can conduct electricity not only represents a paradigm shift in our fundamental understanding of biology but also could completely change how we manufacture and use electronics.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, led by microbiologist Derek Lovley with physicists Mark Tuominen, Nikhil Malvankar, have discovered that the Geobacter bacterium uses the nanowire-like protein filaments to transfer electrons into iron oxide (rust) contained within the soil where they live and this mechanism serves the same function as oxygen does for humans.
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Multifunctional nanoparticle enables new type of biological imaging →
Spotting a single cancerous cell that has broken free from a tumor and is traveling through the bloodstream to colonize a new organ might seem like finding a needle in a haystack. But a new imaging technique from the University of Washington is a first step toward making this possible.
UW researchers have developed a multifunctional nanoparticle that eliminates the background noise, enabling a more precise form of medical imaging – essentially erasing the haystack, so the needle shines through. A successful demonstration with photoacoustic imaging was reported today (July 27) in the journal Nature Communications.
Source eurekalert.org
