'Artificial life' comes step closer
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Researchers at Rockefeller University make small synthetic vesicles that resemble a crude kind of biological cell.
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A leading human genome scientist says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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The future is tantalizing. But is it within reach?
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Devices made of heart tissue could screen drugs and power implantable robots.
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US scientists say they have taken a step towards creating synthetic life in the laboratory.
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George Church wants to sequence your genome.
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Once relegated to science-fiction movies and automobile assembly lines, robots are expected to handle more complex tasks in health care and agriculture, among other areas.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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Computer science professor Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for feats that range from inventing the ultrahigh-resolution confocal microscope to helping found the field of artificial intelligence, which aims to create computers that mimic the human mind.
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Scientists are nearer the creation of tiny artificial blood vessels after growing miniscule tubes out of stem cells.
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DNA&#39;s ability to self-assemble into predetermined patterns has been exploited to create synthetic versatile scaffolding that can direct the assembly of miniscule computer circuits.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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Human genome scientist Craig Venter says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.
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Scientists capture a beam of light and make it reappear elsewhere, potentially leading to advances in computing.
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The most profound insights to emerge from the pursuit of synthetic life just may be about real life.
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Artificial intelligences could soon be living and learning inside online worlds such as Second Life.