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Category: Biotechnology
Get Your Dog Cloned for $130,000
02 Jan, 2009 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: NY Times | Comments
Yikes. This was a concept in a Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie 10 years back. Now it's real. Found this buried in a subsection of the NY Times - just another thing to your average New Yorker...
Amateurs Trying Genetic Engineering at Home
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: Yahoo News | Comments
I'm sure they said "Don't try this at home, folks".
I personally have been trying splice a bar of chocolate with one of my pot plants. Didn't work, that one.
The Year in Biomedicine
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: Technology Review | Comments
Included the first detailed map of the network of connections in the human cortex.
Brain will become the battlefield of the future
21 Aug, 2008 | CATEGORY: BiotechnologyFuture Studies | Comments
Rapid advances in neuroscience could have a dramatic impact on national security and the way in which future wars are fought, US intelligence officials have been told.
U.S Dept of Energy invests $125 million in synthetic life forms for biofuels
08 Jul, 2007 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: Wired | Comments
Research labs in San Francisco are scheduled to engineer plants that can produce Ethanol with unprecedented efficiency.
Patent Sought for Artificial Life Forms
20 Jun, 2007 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: BBC | Comments
Dr Craig Venter has filed a ptaent application for his broad method of creating artificial life. The application claims exclusive ownership of a set of essential genes and a synthetic "free-living organism that can grow and replicate" made using those genes.
US scientists create artificial version of an insect eye
19 May, 2006 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: BBC | Comments
I don't know why they did that, there are plenty of real ones all over the place.