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Nature’s Most Wicked-Looking Robot, The Bacteriophage
8:00AM Mark Wilson | I can’t lie; I’ve been waiting for an excuse to post a picture of a bacteriophage, the microscopic spider virus that lands on bacteria to inject its own DNA, for a long time. This Cyborg Life gives me an excuse. More »
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That’s A Bad Cough, Let’s Examine Your Genome
7:20AM Mark Wilson | In 2003, we mapped the human genome, the 20,000-ish genes we all share. It cost $US3 billion. Today, you can literally spit in a cup, place the saliva in the mail and get a peek at your own genome. More »
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Nanoparticles Can Rip Your DNA Apart Without Ever Touching It
11:40AM Rosa Golijan | If I could visualise nanoparticles, I’d think of them as crime bosses because apparently they can mess with DNA without ever having direct interaction. Like a true godfather, a nanoparticle commands obeying molecules to do the dirty work. More »
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Scientists Mapping Out 10,000 Animal Genomes For “Genetic Zoo”
2:00PM Rosa Golijan | On the tail-end of news that all of the HIV genome and 98% of the pig genome has been decoded, scientists are announcing that they’ve got a plan to collect and sequence the DNA of 10,000 vertebrate species. More »
Design
DNA-Inspired Closet Is As Space-Efficient As It Is Twisted
10:40AM Rosa Golijan | Irina Alexandru’s design is more of a coat hanger than a closet, but it’s intended to allow for the maximum amount of clothing hangers in the smallest amount of space. I just plain like the curvy double helix design. [Core77]
Design
Customise Your iPhone With Your Own DNA
1:42AM Jesus Diaz | As if my iPhone didn’t have enough of my DNA in the form of grease fingerprints, dead skin cells and other precious bodily fluids, now I can add some more of it in wallpaper form. More »
Hardware
IBM Examining Microchips Built On DNA “Oragami” Nanostructures
7:30AM Jack Loftus | From the “at least 10 years out” category of microchip fabrication comes word that IBM is working to reduce future costs and microchip sizes by using DNA. That’s correct, the building blocks of life could one day contribute to your virtual reality headshot in Halo 28: Master Chief Comes Back From the Dead for the 12th Time. More »
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Genome Sequencing Gets 99.9833% Price Cut
11:20AM Rosa Golijan | Dr. Quake of Stanford University only needed $US50,000 and a month’s time to complete a genome sequencing process which previously took $US300 million, over 250 people, and several years. How cheap would Windows 7 be with this guy’s cost-cutting? More »
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Secret of Eternal Life, Better Sex Found in Mammoth Graveyard
9:40PM Jesus Diaz | Get ready for eternal life and better sex: Russian scientists working on a Siberian mammoth graveyard have found unknown bacterium DNA which, according to preliminary lab results, effectively extends mice’s life-as well as other things. More »
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