Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy discusses why he views biology as a technology that can be engineered to the benefit of humankind. He's working on open source...
Study Science at RMIT http://www.rmit.edu.au/appliedsciences RMIT University academic Dr Kay Latham explains how nanotechnology works. Watch other videos in ...
Science videos from all realms of science, including biology, genetics, medicine, stem cells, evolution, animals, climate change, the environment, physics and astronomy...
TED Talks Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects.
Teachers and Parents, this is a great summary of how to use Technology on the classroom, and how we can use video and an integrated system to teach any subject. Watch this video, you are going to like the idea, and write your comments.
Internet users with no scientific training have helped discover a new type of galaxy and crack a problem in protein biochemistry that stumped experts, thanks to the power of the internet.
A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.
Bird flu is deadly, but it generally does not spread easily from human to human. Now, scientists in Wisconsin and the Netherlands have created a strain of bird flu that can spread through the air — a virus that could kill millions if terrorists...
"Ongoing research work aims to build simple computers that operate inside living cells, teaching them how to grow and divide using methods similar to programming a computer to operate functions over time. Research by Dr. Drew Endy, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and pioneer in synthetic biology, has the potential to change how people look at health and interact with the environment...."
Living cells are a special form of condensed matter, matter that has been optimized by evolution to perform functions. Are there laws of nature that govern l...
The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences.
"Artificial gene circuits have been proposed to be embedded into microbial cells that function as switches, timers, oscillators, and the Boolean logic gates. Building more complex systems from these basic gene circuit components is one key advance for biologic circuit design and synthetic biology. However, the behavior of bioengineered gene circuits remains unstable and uncertain. In this study, a nonlinear stochastic system is proposed to model the biological systems with intrinsic parameter fluctuations and environmental molecular noise from the cellular context in the host cell. Based on evolutionary systems biology algorithm, the design parameters of target gene circuits can evolve to specific values in order to robustly track a desired biologic function in spite of intrinsic and environmental noise. The fitness function is selected to be inversely proportional to the tracking error so that the evolutionary biological circuit can achieve the optimal tracking mimicking the evolutionary process of a gene circuit. Finally, several design examples are given in silico with the Monte Carlo simulation to illustrate the design procedure and to confirm the robust performance of the proposed design method. The result shows that the designed gene circuits can robustly track desired behaviors with minimal errors even with nontrivial intrinsic and external noise."
H5N1 avian flu rarely infects humans, but it is deadly when it does. Since the virus first emerged in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, nearly 600 people have been infected worldwide and almost 60% have died.
"'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available."
Congratulation to MIT! - I think this is a major move. The education business is changing dramatically. The same driver as for publishing and science: computer developments, storage and social connection. We see here a taste of future education. Reading will be doe at home on (your mac, pc or) mobile device. The class is for discussion and problem solving. Also the class can be hold in a virtual setting. The major institutions like MIT go global. They will develop to a prime brand as we have in other areas prime brands like e.g. Apple. It is wise to be on the forefront. This will secure MIT and co a dominant position. I am very curious, what Apple will come in relation to education. There are some hints in the recent Steve Jobs bio, that apple is planning to mix up the academic text book. It might be a free offer, since this is a possibility to circumvent government regulations. The economic system is in many countries under pressure, and this maybe 10 year more from now and this will lead also to government support for such a system. All together: We will see soon a totally new package for academic learning. This looks really awesome, very democratic and will give a lot of people access to prime education. For the moment thanks a lot to MIT. I am really exited and wish your initiative all possible support and luck!
To get content containing either thought or leadership enter:
To get content containing both thought and leadership enter:
To get content containing the expression thought leadership enter:
You can enter several keywords and you can refine them whenever you want. Our suggestion engine uses more signals but entering a few keywords here will rapidly give you great content to curate.
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
