Should we bring back extinct species?
At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.
NEWS INDEX
New Interface Allows Humans to Move a Rat’s Tail With Their Thoughts
In what might be the first documented case of technologically-assisted interspecies telepathy, an international team of researchers has successfully created a non-invasive brain-to-brain interface that...
Vaccine Adjuvant Uses Host DNA to Boost Pathogen Recognition
Aluminum salts, or alum, have been injected into billions of people as an adjuvant to make vaccines more effective. No one knows, however, how they...
A ‘Light Switch’ in Brain Illuminates Neural Networks
Researchers from NTNU's Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience are able to see which cells communicate with each other in the brain by flipping a neural...
3-D Printer Can Build Synthetic Tissues
A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated.
Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Production
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential...
DNA origami takes a fresh direction
In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan has led a research...
Obama launches research initiative to study human brain
The White House unveiled a sweeping new initiative on Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain, a project...
Similarities Between Genetic and Computer Codes
The term "survival of the fittest" refers to natural selection in biological systems, but Darwin's theory may apply more broadly than that. New research from...
Artificial Spleen to Treat Bloodstream Infections
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Electronic implant designed to reduce obesity
UK-based scientists have designed an 'intelligent' microchip which they claim can suppress appetite.Animal trials of the electronic implant are about to begin and its makers...
Biological Transistor Enables Computing Within Living Cells
A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They have developed a biological transistor...
Bio-Batteries
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria. Findings published today in...
Making living matter programmable
Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at an afternoon session yesterday (March...
Devoloping Sense of Smell
Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin or the central nervous system,...
