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TED - 11/02/19 : "How exactly does gender work ? It's not just about our chromosomes, says biologist Karissa Sanbonmatsu. In a visionary talk, she shares new discoveries from epigenetics, the emerging study of how DNA activity can permanently change based on social factors like trauma or diet. Learn how life experiences shape the way genes are expressed -- and what that means for our understanding of gender...
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Kurzweil 20/12/17 : "Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have programmed DNA molecules to follow specific instructions to create sophisticated molecular machines that could be capable of communication, signal processing, problem-solving, decision-making, and control of motion in living cells...
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June Javelosa 26/01/17 : "Scientists from University of California - San Diego were able to confirm the code responsible for initiating transcription and regulation of more than half of human genes. Knowing how or why genes are turned on and off during development, as well as understanding how they respond to environmental changes, will help us find ways to prevent diseases...
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Dom Gateon 13/11/16 : "Nanostructures made using DNA origami are fascinating. The ability to use DNA as a construction material, capable of holding scaffolds of molecules and atoms was one huge step in developing modern nanostrutures. Most recent of these developments are gold-plated nanowires constructed by scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and from Paderborn University, which independently assembled themselves from single DNA strands, as published in the journal Langmuir. These nanowires, due to their gold-plating, were able to conduct electricity...
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Jelor Gallego 25/09/16 : "A scientist from Sweden is the first researcher to ever edit human DNA in healthy embryos. Using CRISPR, Fredrik Lanner is modifying genes to figure out what they do, eventually hoping to discover more about infertility, miscarriages, and embryonic stem cells...
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Kurzweil 04/04/16 : "MIT biological engineers have created a programming language for bacteria. It allows anyone to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that add new functions to living cells — no genetic engineering knowledge required. For example: design bacterial cells that can produce a cancer drug when they detect a tumor or create yeast cells that can halt their own fermentation process if too many toxic byproducts build up...
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A way to potentially reprogram cancer cells back to normalcy has been discovered by researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus. The finding, published in Nature Cell Biology, represents “an unexpected new biology that provides the code, the software for turning off cancer,” says the study’s senior investigator, Panos Anastasiadis, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Cancer Biology on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus....
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Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the successful film series, in theaters June 12, will take viewers back to a world in which dinosaurs have been revived. t’s not just be a movie, says Andrew Torrance, professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. We are close to “de-extinction” — reviving extinct creatures, he suggests...
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Pioneering new treatments for flu, ebola and cancer are being developed by scientists using man-made DNA after experts discovered how to create strands that mimic different diseases...
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Kristin Houser 25/09/18 : "They might be tiny, but mosquitoes cause millions of deaths every year by spreading diseases like malaria and dengue. Now, new research suggests we could wipe the destructive buggers off the map using a genetic engineering technique known as a gene drive -if we’re willing to risk permanently altering our ecosystem. A gene drive lets researchers make a change to one organism that it then passes down to its offspring, like a genetic time bomb. Using the technique, researchers from Imperial College London completely wiped out a caged population of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species that spreads malaria in sub-Saharan Africa...
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Dom Galeon | Futurism / Enhanced humans - 04/08/17 : "A study published today in the journal Nature confirms earlier reports of the first-ever successful gene-editing of embryos in the U.S. Though controversial, the treatment could one day be used to address any of the 10,000 disorders linked to just a single genetic error...
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Jelor Gallego 11/11/16 : "Gene editing remains a widely controversial topic due to the large potential for both benefit and “accidents.” Despite this, scientists are still hard at work developing gene edits that can solve a wide variety of diseases.A new study may have found the key to solving a painful, and potentially fatal, genetic defect. Researchers from Stanford used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique to fix the gene defects that cause sickle cell disease...
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TED 05/16 : "From improving vaccines to modifying crops to solving crimes, DNA technology has transformed our world. Now, for the first time in history, anyone can experiment with DNA at home, in their kitchen, using a device smaller than a shoebox. We are living in a personal DNA revolution, says biotech entrepreneur Sebastian Kraves, where the secrets buried in DNA are yours to find...
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Futurism / EurekAlert 12/04/16 : "Ever since the development of the first computer, technology has been moving toward making electronics smaller and packing more juice into them. This has led to the development of nanoelectronics, molecules and atoms that act in a way similar to large electronic components. Typically, these are several atoms or molecules cobbled together... Now, another milestone in that direction has been achieved. In a study published online in Nature Chemistry, researchers from the US and Israel say they have developed the world’s smallest diode, the size of a single molecule...
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John Markoff / Seattle 08/12/15 : "Computer data has been depicted as microscopic magnetic smudges, electric charges and even Lilliputian patterns of dots that reflect laser beams. It may ultimately move into the fabric of life itself — encoded in the organic molecules that are strung together like pearls to form strands of DNA...
In two recent experiments, a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington and Microsoft, and a separate group at the University of Illinois, have shown that DNA molecules can be the basis for an archival storage system potentially capable of storing all of the world’s digital information in roughly nine liters of solution [...]...
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New technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, promises to dramatically speed up the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA test and make it cheaper and more portable by simply accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light...
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Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a method using DNA for designing new customized materials with complex structures for applications in energy, optics, and medicine | Cluster assembled from DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles on vertices of a octahedral DNA origami frame (Brookhaven)...
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