Researchers Take Step Toward Synthetic 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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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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Scientists in Maryland yesterday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce.
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Scientists trying to create life are more like engineers than biologists. They want to make stuff rather than learn about life.
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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A new class of material, which brings computer chips made from a single molecule a step closer, has been discovered by scientists.
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Scientists create a synthetic molecule called PAC-1 which can prompt cancer cells to self-destruct.
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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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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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WALNUT CREEK, CA--The first genetic instruction manual of a diatom, from a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth&#39;s most prolific carbon dioxide assimilators, has yielded important insights on how the creature uses nitrogen, fats, and
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug  which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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DENVER, COLORADO -- Those twin robots hard at work on Mars have transmitted teasing views that reinforce the prospect that microbial life may exist on the red planet.
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A new initiative will work on cell-based toxicity tests for chemicals.
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Researchers have assembled the entire genome of a living organism -- a bacterium -- in what they hope is an important step to creating artificial life.
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Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.
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Rat cells grown onto microscopic silicon chips worked as tiny robots, perhaps a first step toward a self-assembling device, researchers working in the United States reported on Sunday.