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• Experimental neurochips fabricated in a lab.
  Fans of the manga Ghost In the Shell no doubt remember one of the more visually stunning pages at the beginning of the saga, CG art depicting a neurochip , which in the se
• Bacteria created with first wholly synthetic genome.
  Late last week it was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute that they had created the first synthetic cell , a variant of the bacterium mycoplasma mycoides , which is
• Some mods good, some mods bad.
  It almost seems as if we're indoctrinated by North American culture to not enhance ourselves (the blizzards of spam to the contrary) in some way, shape, or form but still
• Biodegradable surgical implants and surreptitious DNA archival.
  After badly breaking a load-bearing part of your body it's not uncommon for an orthopedic surgeon to install a couple of after-market bits of hardware to hold the bones to
• Newborns tested for genetic diseases. Parents surprised.
  In the United States, genetic testing of newborns for inherited diseases began quietly sometime in the 1960's; the technology of the time, understandably, was in its infan
• Stem cell research is indeed mighty: it could give us bacon.
  Well, kinda. Hopefully soon, but not quite yet. A team of stem cell researchers at Maastricht University have worked out a way to culture porcine stem cells in vitro to gr
• Drug resistant tuberculosis hits the United States.
  One might wonder if medical science is starting to feel the fear, as Hunter S. Thompson once put it. Disease has long been an adversary of human life; everything from the
• Genetic origins of skin and lung cancer pinpointed.
  It is common knowledge that many forms of cancer have environmental as well as genetic components: for skin cancer, overexposure to sunlight can trigger its development. L
• Kaoru Miki would be pleased.
  I know this is kind of late in coming, but real life came first. The science of botany has, over the years, produced many families of roses: red, white, yellow, orange, pi
• Replacing teeth and white blood cells, and a wi-fi enabled pacemaker.
  I realize that some of these stories are kind of old, but in my defense I work a lot. Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science announced earlier this month that they
• Just when you thought biotech couldn't get any more fascinating.
  Biology and medicine have long known that more advanced forms of life emit various forms of energy as they go about their business. Mammals emit heat as a byproduct of the

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