Scientists Take New Step Toward Man-Made Life
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Researchers say they have created the entire genome of a bacterium by stitching together its chemical components.
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.
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It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute are one step closer to understanding how blood cells develop through the use of human embryonic stem cells.
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In a big step toward a long-sought goal, three teams of scientists say they've produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, at least in mice, without taking the controversial step of destroying embryos.
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A team of US scientists show off a novel device that harvests energy from human movements.
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Big changes are coming from the marriage of medicine and nanotechnology, the new branch of science that deals with things a few millionths of an inch in size.
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U.S. researchers have made a very small research tool that may one day help scientists probe the activity of genes and proteins in a single cell, they said on Thursday, opening the door to a new realm of genetic research.
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge develop new treatments for cancer.
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Researchers at Rockefeller University make small synthetic vesicles that resemble a crude kind of biological cell.
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German scientists are using a new computational method to analyze DNA taken from microorganisms that make up more than a third of the Earth's biomass.
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Scientists move swiftly to quash reports that a possible contact has been received from  extraterrestrial life.
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Quorum sensing, which determines when bacteria communicate to one another, has captured the interest of a new generation of scientific researchers.
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The genetic building blocks that form the basis for life may also be used to build the tiny machines of nanotechnology, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.
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Nanoparticles allow researchers to initiate biochemical events at will.