Scientists Say They May be Able to Print Live Human Tissue
• http://www.voanews.com, George PuticTwo Israeli companies say they used a specialized 3-D printer to create an environment in which stem cells could grow into a specific tissue.
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Fish eat plastic like teens eat fast food, researchers say
• bbc.comYoung fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, Swedish researchers have said.
Why did Harvard Scientists Hold A 'Secret" Synthetic Genome Meeting?
• https://www.technocracy.news, Lonnie ShekhtmanAt Harvard Medical School in Boston, 150 hand-picked scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs gathered last week - in private - to discuss how to create a genome, potentially even a human one, from scratch in a lab.
In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human
• http://www.npr.org, Rob SteinA handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal.
How scientists are harnessing the ice-making powers of bacteria
• http://theweek.com, Zach St. GeorgeThe first major debate over genetically modified organisms, in the late 1980s, was not over tomatoes, salmon, or corn, but instead a type of bacteria that can raise the freezing point of water.
Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever
• http://www.ted.com, Jennifer KahnCRISPR gene drives allow scientists to change sequences of DNA and guarantee that the resulting edited genetic trait is inherited by future generations, opening up the possibility of altering entire species forever.
Study suggests there could be more species on Earth than stars in our galaxy
• gizmag.comBiologists at Indiana University believe we may have only discovered a mere thousandth of a percent of the species on our planet.
Why Did the Genetic Code of All Life on Earth Suddenly Stop Evolving?
• motherboard.vice.comAll life on Earth exists thanks to a universal genetic code. This biological rulebook tells our cells how DNA should be translated into life-supporting proteins, without which we couldn't survive.
Prematurely born lambs kept alive in artificial external placenta...
• http://www.gizmag.com, Michael FrancoPrematurely born lambs kept alive in artificial external placenta - human babies could be next
Twisted Proteins May Give Plants A Memory
• popsci.comIf this is in fact a prion, it would be the first ever found in a plant
Seen At 11: DNA Test Measures Couple Compatibility
• http://newyork.cbslocal.comWhen it comes to relationships, there's no perfect formula to tell if that certain someone is Mr. or Ms. Right, until now.
How the world's chillest bacteria make ice
• http://www.theverge.com, By Alessandra PotenzaThey may be responsible for creating clouds and rain
Scientists Discover Key Neural Pathways that Allow Transition to Sleep
• http://motherboard.vice.com, by DANIEL OBERHAUSFor something that happens as regularly as falling asleep, neuroscientists know remarkably little about how it works. One minute you're awake and the next minute you're flying through the city fighting a giant lizard that vaguely resembles your m
How LSD helped us discover what the 'sense of self' looks like in the brain
• Nicolas Crossley and Ed BullmoreCall it an "ego", a "self" or just an "I" - it's the idea that our thoughts and feelings are our own, and no one else has access to them in the same way.
DNA sequence behind muscle regeneration begins to unravel
• http://www.gizmag.com, Nick LavarsAnimals that regrow body parts like zebrafish and newts certainly function very differently to the way humans do, but we might one day be able to borrow some of these traits.
INFERTILE MICE GIVE BIRTH, THANKS TO 3D-PRINTED OVARIES
• http://www.popsci.com, By Alexandra OssolaA SIMILAR TECHNIQUE MIGHT HELP RESTORE HUMAN FERTILITY
Scientists decode newts' ability to regenerate limbs
• http://www.gizmag.com, Nick LavarsAdult newts are the envy of the animal kingdom when it comes to replacing missing tissue. Amputated legs, arms or tails, there's hardly repair job too big for this animal's remarkable regenerative abilities.
Tracking deer births from space
• http://www.gizmag.com, Chris WoodNASA's extensive web of satellites has been used for everything from spotting shipwrecks to helping farmers combat draught, but a new project has turned them towards something a little different yet - analyzing deer populations.
Dramatic 3D images reveal super-small motors that drive bacteria
• gizmag.comWhen you want to get together with friends or family, chances are you employ a motor. That is to say, you likely get into a car or on some form of public transport to arrive at a meeting point. Bacteria really aren't very different.
Lisa Nip: How humans could evolve to survive in space
• TEDIf we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space.
The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter's New Synthetic Life Form
• WiredPeel away the layers of a house--the plastered walls, the slate roof, the hardwood floors--and you're left with a frame, the skeletal form that makes up the core of any structure. Can we do the same with life?
Scientists closer to CLONING T-Rex after discovering remains of pregnant dinosaur
• http://www.express.co.uk, By Sean MartinSCIENTISTS are one step closer to cloning dinosaurs after the discovering the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was pregnant when it died.
Stripping donor hearts and repopulating them with recipient-derived stem cells
• http://www.gizmag.com, David SzondyHeart transplants have been around since 1967, but they're still anything but routine.
ExoMars 2016 is on its way to the Red Planet
• http://www.gizmag.com, David SzondyThe latest mission to Mars began its long journey today as the ExoMars 2016 lifted off at 09:31 GMT atop a Russian Proton-M/Breeze-M rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Simulated Martian and lunar soils sprout their first crops
• http://www.gizmag.com, Ben CoxworthWhen and if colonists ever arrive on Mars, they're going to need something to eat … on a long-term, ongoing basis. That's why several research groups are looking into the feasibility of growing crops on the Red Planet.
Lab-grown eye tissue restores rabbits' vision
• http://www.gizmag.com, Nick LavarsIn what marks important progress toward a future where defective vision could be treated with lab-grown eyeball components, an international team of scientists has used human stem cells to build layers of eye tissue that was then implanted into rabbi
Scientists attempt to clone Ice Age LION CUBS after discovering 'near-perfect'...
• http://www.mirror.co, BY RHIAN LUBINScientists attempt to clone Ice Age LION CUBS after discovering 'near-perfect' 12,000-year-old remains in Siberia
Eugenics: The Problem Is Coercion
• unz.comThe Washington Post has an op-ed up right now titled: What's the difference between genetic engineering and eugenics?
New Species Of Flower Found Preserved In Amber
• popsci.comAncient blooms
Revolutionary cancer breakthrough: Pioneering treatment halts disease...
• http://www.mirror.co, BY ANDREW GREGORYRevolutionary cancer breakthrough: Pioneering treatment halts disease in 94% of terminal patients in trial
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