Synthetic life 'advance' reported
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US scientists say they have taken a step towards creating synthetic life in the laboratory.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biotechnology--and what they mean.
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Coming soon to a jungle near you -- mosquitoes genetically engineered so they cannot give people malaria. But this time scientists want to do it right.
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New technologies will shed light on how beneficial bacteria might help our health.
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PORTLAND, Ore.  -- Pollen from genetically engineered grass floated more than 12 miles from experimental plots and bred with conventional plants, raising concerns that the biotechnology industry can't control the "gene flow" of its creations...
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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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There's encouraging news about an enzyme replacement drug.
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Stem cell researchers continue to question Advanced Cell Technology scientists on their increasingly contested paper published recently in Nature.. In Bodyhack.
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Scientists move swiftly to quash reports that a possible contact has been received from  extraterrestrial life.
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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Science & environment: Advances mean cryonics - freezing the dead with the hope of reviving them - could be coming a little closer
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Synthetic biology turns a bacteriophage into an E. coli eliminator.
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The number of mutated genes driving cancer development is greater than previously thought, research shows.
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[Health India]: Washington, Dec 21 : Johns Hopkins University researchers have found the first evidence that genetically engineered heart cells derived from human embryonic stem (ES) cells might one day turn out to be a promising biological alternative to
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Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday that they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of advances that could speed development of stem-cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases.
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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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You were expecting poetry, perhaps? The secret messages hidden in J. Craig Venterâs synthetic bacterial genome have now been revealed. They are Dr. Venterâs name, and that of his research institute and co-workers.