Team claims synthetic life feat
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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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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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Wired Science reveals the secret messages encoded into the world's first manmade bacterial genome by the scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute.
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New methane readings from a space probe raise the possibility that microbial life could exist on Mars. Some scientists, though, remain skeptical.
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A US team reports how it built in the lab the entire set of genetic instructions needed to drive a bacterial cell.
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An international team of scientists has created artificial roaches in order to study "collective intelligence."
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Scientists at the German Research Centre for Biotechnology in Braunschweig have successfully filmed individual cells migrating within a functioning lymph node.
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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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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.
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Scientists create a tiny engine that could become a power source for future nano-scale devices.
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The ability to manipulate matter on a tiny scale could lead to environmental breakthroughs. Billions of dollars are being spent, but the most exciting green nanoproducts are still on the drawing boards.
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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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Researchers say a new programme could help create a DNA database of all life on Earth, ever.
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A US team say it has created embryos that are clones of two men - a step towards patient-specific stem cells.
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A British company reported Wednesday it had achieved the best results ever seen on an experimental human vaccine for bird flu and said mass production might be possible by 2007.
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Scientists working at a British laboratory have achieved one of the most controversial breakthroughs ever made in the field of stem cell science by taking cells from dead embryos and turning them into living tissue.