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Video: Micro-bubbles and stem cell gene therapy heal bone fractures in pigs

Robert Service | 
It takes more than a cast and a little time to heal many broken bones....Now, researchers have combined ultrasound, stem ...
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How to stop art forgery? Inject paintings with synthetic DNA

Henri Neuendorf | 
Over the past several years, institutions in both the US and the UK have been trying to figure out how ...
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Open source science or intellectual property: Should we allow patenting of synbio organisms?

Robert Hart | 
[S]ynthetic biology...incorporates disparate disciplines like engineering, computer science, biotechnology, and molecular biology...[i]nstead of using engineering’s discrete modules of code, transistors, ...
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3-D bionic humans? Printed pressure sensors open door to artificial limbs that feel

Marcus Woo | 
Wearable technology may soon be at your fingertips -- literally. Researchers have developed a pressure sensor that can be 3-D ...
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Is the US military in danger of using synthetic biology to ‘weaponize the environment’?

Todd Kuiken | 
In recent years... the military—mostly under the umbrella of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—has created a new suite of ...
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How nanoparticles may help counteract antibiotic drug resistance

Anna Demming | 
By 2050 more people may die from microbial infection than cancer, according to current estimates. The increasing mortal threat from ...
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‘Brain in a dish’ gives scientists ‘unprecedented’ ability to study neurodevelopment disorders

Roheeni Saxena | 
Small cultures of human neuronal cells developing in a dish are not quite “brains in a petri dish” as they are ...
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Electroceuticals? Nerve-activated devices may revolutionize arthritis and autoimmune disease treatments

Douglas Fox | 
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to ...
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Eric Lander and Eric Schmidt: Science’s Miracle Machine — government investment in basic research — in danger

Eric Lander, Eric Schmidt | 
[Editor's note: Eric S. Lander is president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. Eric E ...
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Do we have a human right to the privacy of our brain activity?

Neuroskeptic | 
Do we have a human right to the privacy of our brain activity? Is “cognitive liberty” the foundation of all ...
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Why so many biotechnology start-ups, like Theranos, fail

Casey Johnston | 
Two years after the $9 billion start-up “unicorn” Theranos crumbled, Silicon Valley still appears to be struggling to learn its ...
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Talking Biotech: What’s blocking GMO crop adoption in Africa?

Matthew Harsh | 
Sociologist Matthew Harsh: Poor communication between Kenyan scientists, policymakers, farmers and anti-biotech activists slows GMO adoption ...
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Nanotechnology-inspired inkjet printers are growing stem cells that could help regenerate nerves

Mike Krapfl | 
Inkjet printers and lasers are parts of a new way to produce cells important to research on nerve regeneration. ... Researchers ...
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DNA ‘rock science’ helps wring more crude oil from shale rock, boosting supply

Ernest Scheyder | 
A small group of U.S. oil producers has been trying to exploit advances in DNA science to wring more crude ...
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Facing climate change, plant breeders use genetics, robotics to develop crops ‘that can adapt to it all’

Diane Nelson | 
Variable weather is creating extreme challenges for crop breeding in California. How do you develop crops that will thrive under ...
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Artificial intelligence sorting of genetic mutations is helping patients get best drugs for their cancer

Mary Shacklett | 
Cancer patients are often treated with chemotherapy and various types of drugs, but the results of these treatments aren't uniform ...
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Nature’s hard drive: All of the world’s data could be stored in DNA–in one room

Robert Service | 
Humanity has a data storage problem: More data were created in the past 2 years than in all of preceding history ...
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Decoding death: Craig Venter’s quest to uncover secret to immortality in our DNA

Matthew Herper | 
Craig Venter, the man in the late 1990s who, frustrated by the slow progress of the government-funded Human Genome Project, ...
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DNA forensics is not an infallible tool — but not because of science

Andrew Porterfield | 
DNA has revolutionized how crimes are solved. But blunders by investigators have thrown a cloud over the use of genetic ...
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Tiny CRISPR-Cas9 injections could treat retinal diseases, with no off-target effects

Scientists at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, in collaboration with ToolGen, ...
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Cell atlas: 37 trillion cells in the human body will be catalogued in ambitious effort

Steve Connor | 
The objective is to construct the first comprehensive “cell atlas,” or map of human cells, a technological marvel that should ...
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From rough sketches to virtual reality: How scientists study, learn about developing embryos

Hyacinth Empinado | 
Armed with a wand and funky spectacles, Beatrice Steinert steps into a world of lush green mounds and bright blue ...
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Nanoparticles: Parkinson’s, cancer, heart disease treatments boosted by DNA ‘barcodes’

Using tiny snippets of DNA as "barcodes," researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly screening the ability of nanoparticles ...
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Talking Biotech: Clay nanoparticles deliver plants gene-silencing virus-protecting RNA spray

Neena Mitter | 
Revolutionizing crop protection? Biotechnologist Neena Mitter on 'bioclay' — spray that protects plants from a virus using nanoparticles to deliver ...
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Nanoparticle-delivered CRISPR tools could treat hemophilia, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy

More and more scientists are using the powerful new gene-editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9, a technology isolated from bacteria, that ...
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Leading plant scientist says he’s skipping Science March on Washington: Here’s why

Kevin Folta | 
[Editor's note: Kevin Folta, a molecular biologist and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, offers ...
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Star Trek-like ‘tricorders’ promise DNA analysis on the go

David Warmflash | 
We are rapidly approaching a time when Star Trek-style "tricorders" will offer rapid handheld analysis of genetic samples. It could ...
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