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Dec 20, 2018

Scientists added rabbit DNA to a houseplant, and now it’s an air purifier

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Plants are very good at producing oxygen that we all need in order to breath, but what about clearing the air of harmful chemicals? Past research has revealed that plants do a bit of housekeeping when it comes to cleaning the air of certain compounds but researchers wondered if they could help boost that function with a genetic tweak.

In new research published in Environmental Science & Technology, researchers explain how they were able to give a common house plant more power to clean the air around it, and it’s all thanks to DNA from a mammal.

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Dec 20, 2018

Biohacker injects himself with DNA sequence made from Bible and Koran verses

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

A biohacker injected himself with DNA sequence made from parts of the Bible and Koran in a risky experiment because he “wondered whether it would be possible.”

Adrien Locatelli, from Grenoble in France, translated religious passages into DNA code to build unknown proteins which he then poured into his body.

The high-school student risked potentially fatal consequences after conducting the procedure without any knowledge of the effects the proteins would have on his body.

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Dec 20, 2018

Nature’s 10

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Ten people who mattered in science in 2018. Picks include a rogue gene-editor, a wunderkind physicist and a DNA detective who helped catch a serial killer.

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Dec 20, 2018

Program: 2019 announces Program and Speakers!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

I am overjoyed to be co-hosting the second “Undoing Aging” conference together with Michael Greve just one year after the first, thanks to the generosity and hard work of Michael’s Forever Healthy Foundation and their team.

It is now entirely appropriate to be holding conferences on rejuvenation biotechnology every year, given how rapidly the field and the industry have grown relative to a decade ago, when my conferences in Cambridge were biannual. As you will see below, we are again assembling a huge variety of world-leading speakers whose research spans all aspects of rejuvenation biotechnology.

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Dec 20, 2018

NASA Live

Posted by in category: space

NASA launches, landings, and events. Watch live broadcasts from NASA Television and NASA’s social media channels, and a schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches and landings.

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Dec 19, 2018

New Powder Captures CO2 Before It Can Hit the Atmosphere

Posted by in category: sustainability

Researchers use heat and salt to extract it from plant matter.


It’s nearly twice as efficient as conventional methods.


Dec 19, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Has Some Explaining to Do

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Software makers offer more transparent machine-learning tools—but there’s a trade-off.

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Dec 19, 2018

A Bug-Like Robot Uses Electricity to Walk Upside Down

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

A bug’s life doesn’t seem half bad, if you can overlook the super-short lifespan or the threat of getting eaten by lizards or swatted at by humans. Flying is nice, as is being able to walk on ceilings. The versatility is enviable, which is why roboticists are on a quest to imbue machines with the power of the bug.

But to harness the powers of nature, roboticists are resorting to very un-biological means. The latest insect-inspired robot tackles the problem of walking upside down using not glue, or a material that mimics the pad of a gecko’s foot as past bot builders have done, but electricity. Specifically, electroadhesion.

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Dec 19, 2018

Tiny Stars, Habitable Worlds: Planet Hunters Chase A Cosmic Connection

Posted by in category: space

Earth-size planets are the target.

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Dec 19, 2018

Robot Car GIF

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Disney’s wall-riding robot.

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