Tag: biotech
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USING carrots to create concrete, turning wood into plastic, or even compressing it into a “super wood” that is as light and strong as titanium might sound like a series… more ›
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Smartphones, superglue, electric cars, video chat. When does the wonder of a new technology wear off? When you get so used to its presence that you don’t think of it… more ›
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Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. Today Twist charges nine cents a base pair for DNA, a nearly tenfold… more ›
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Barely a year ago, Anna Blakney was working in a relatively inconspicuous, niche field of science in a lab in London. Few people outside of her scientific circles had heard… more ›
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Reuters/James Gathany/CDCAfrica stands to benefit the most from a malaria vaccine given the high prevalence rates. https://qz.com/africa/2040120/biontech-to-develop-the-first-mrna-malaria-vaccine/ more ›
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Synthetic biology brings together multiple disciplines – across the biological sciences, computer science, engineering, social sciences and beyond – to design useful things from the building blocks of life. Tools… more ›
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A previous version of the report, released by the Obama administration, highlighted the risk of a pandemic and the vast economic disruption it could cause — a prescient prediction in… more ›
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The technology that is helping us combat COVID-19 is also poised to help us tackle tough infectious and non-infectious diseases. Immunologist Sarah Fortune explains how these vaccines work, and how… more ›
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High-profile entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, venture capitalists like Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, and big companies like Oracle and HP Enterprise are all leaving California. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it/ more ›