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Belgian PhD Student Decodes DNA and Wins a Bitcoin
29/01/2018
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Sander Wuyts, a Ph.D. student from the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) completed an extraordinary competition that involved bitcoin and DNA-related research. Wuyts was the first to decipher hidden messages in a ...
I can build the living organisms from the scratch
27/03/2017
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The first-time geneticist Jef Boeke designed a synthetic chromosome, he sometimes wrote and edited its DNA sequence in a Microsoft Word document. His goal was to create a slightly altered version of yeast chromosome 9, the shortest of the 16 chromos...
Parsley and other plants lend form to human stem cell scaffolds
27/03/2017
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Borrowing from nature is an age-old theme in science. Form and function go hand-in-hand in the natural world and the structures created by plants and animals are only rarely improved on by humans.Scientists are using the decellularized husks of plant...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...