'Necrobotic' spiders: Manipulating dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers
Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead.
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2022
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Biotechnology news
Existing fiber optic cables can monitor whales
A new study demonstrates for the first time that the same undersea fiber optic cables used for internet and cable television can be repurposed to tune in to marine life at unprecedented scales, potentially transforming critical ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2022
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Uncharted genetic territory offers insight into human-specific proteins
When researchers working on the Human Genome Project completely mapped the genetic blueprint of humans in 2001, they were surprised to find only around 20,000 genes that produce proteins. Could it be that humans have only ...
Biotechnology
Jul 13, 2022
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DNA typewriter taps out messages inside cells
While developing a new system for recording within cells, geneticist Jay Shendure and his team decided to give it a test run by using it to encode text. Since their invention relied on a nearly brand-new recording medium, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2022
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A potential danger of CRISPR gene editing—and why base editing may be safer
Gene therapy using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is currently in clinical trials around the world for a variety of diseases. A report from Boston Children's Hospital, published June 27 in Nature Communications, warns of a potential, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2022
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'Soft' CRISPR may offer a new fix for genetic defects
Curing debilitating genetic diseases is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. During the past decade, development of CRISPR technologies and advancements in genetics research brought new hope for patients and their ...
Biotechnology
Jul 1, 2022
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Scientists engineer synthetic DNA to study 'architect' genes
Researchers at New York University have created artificial Hox genes—which plan and direct where cells go to develop tissues or organs—using new synthetic DNA technology and genomic engineering in stem cells.
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2022
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Emu software uses common gene to profile microbial communities
Part of a gene is better than none when identifying a species of microbe. But for Rice University computer scientists, part was not nearly enough in their pursuit of a program to identify all the species in a microbiome.
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2022
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Perching behavior of hawks suggests ways to improve perching by drones
A quartet of researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology has found that a careful look at the way large birds perch could perhaps lead to improvements in the ways that drones are programmed to land. In ...
Bacteria species found in glacial ice could pose disease risk as glaciers melt from global warming
A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found nearly 1,000 species of bacteria in snow and ice samples collected from Tibetan glaciers. In their paper published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the ...
