Engineering algae to make complex anti-cancer 'designer' drug
Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer.
Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2012
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Imagine strolling along a wildlife refuge trail and finding a marker with a symbol of a bison. Pull out your smartphone or iPad and hold it up to the picture. Now look at the screen and see a 3-D bison roam across the landscape.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 22, 2014
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Jurors return to a Silicon Valley courtroom Monday to put a price on patented iPhone design features copied by Samsung in a legal case dating back seven years.
Business
May 20, 2018
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There are few things more frustrating than a slow-loading web page. For companies, what's even worse is what comes after: users abandoning their site in droves. Amazon, for example, estimates that every 100-millisecond delay ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 9, 2016
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World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who died March 14, 2018,, didn't believe in God and called heaven "a fairy story."
Other
Mar 15, 2019
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Suppose you were asked to streamline the process of real estate development. Or to better organize the offices of an international manufacturer. Or to explain how the parts of a digital printer interact. The complexities ...
Engineering
Jul 30, 2012
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(Phys.org) —Researchers working at Japan's NTT Basic Research Laboratories have successfully built an all mechanical phonon laser. In their paper published in Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they built a ...
Researchers at EPFL have developed a new, high-precision method for 3-D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, ...
Materials Science
Feb 13, 2020
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(Phys.org)—Synthetic biology combines science and engineering in the pursuit of two general goals: to design and construct new biological parts, devices, and systems not found in nature; and redesign existing, natural biological ...
An international team of experts has produced a "manifesto" setting forth steps to improve the quality of scientific research.
Other
Jan 10, 2017
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