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Engineered Virus Attacks Bacteria

July 11, 2007admin
Scientists have engineered viruses to attack and destroy mega-colonies of potentially harmful bacteria called biofilms. The work is one of the latest potential [Read more]

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

July 10, 2007admin 2
Three years ago in The Atlantic, the Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel wrote a critique of genetic engineering titled “The Case Against Perfection.” Now [Read more]

New Single-Molecule Detector

July 10, 2007admin
Using tiny silicon rings that trap and circulate light, researchers have made an ultrasensitive device that can detect single biomolecules. Unlike standard techniques [Read more]

What happens if all human experience can be stored on crystals?

July 10, 2007admin
UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is record [Read more]

Russians threaten to counter US shield

July 5, 2007admin
Russia could site cruise missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, if the US goes ahead with plans for a [Read more]

Cell-transistor interface clears biolectronics hurdle

July 1, 2007admin
PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (Munich, Germany) have developed a cell-transistor interface that they believe will usher in a [Read more]

Blessed are the doomsayers

July 1, 2007admin
Back in 2000 Sun Microsystems chief scientist Bill Joy published his now famous (or is that infamous?) warning cry, ”Why the Future Doesn’t [Read more]

Brain Boosters

July 1, 2007admin 61
Two days from now I’m planning to further tweak my mind by taking a brain-boost pill. Called Provigil, it differs from its predecessors [Read more]

Human therapeutic cloning moves closer to reality

July 1, 2007admin
Human therapeutic cloning has moved one step closer to reality. Stem cells have been extracted from cloned monkey embryos for the first time [Read more]

Robocops ready to take on terrorists

June 30, 2007admin
Real-life Robocops, robots armed with lethal weaponry and a programmed-in determination to eliminate foes, could become a key element in global counter-terrorist and [Read more]

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