bioengineering
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Scientists Have Hacked Yeast To Produce Narcotics
Yeast, that magical microorganism that provideth bread and beer, can now make narcotics, too. In a much-anticipated update, a team of scientists from Stanford University has engineered a strain of common brewer’s yeast to turn simple sugars into opioid drugs.
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Concrete-Printing Bees And Other Living 3D Printers
Our collaborative project with GE that looked at 3D printing this week would only be partially complete without a look at the use of animals as living 3D printers. They are sentient printheads, we might say: biological sources of material, whether it’s silk and honey or, as we’l see below, plastic and even concrete.
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Ten Years In, Lab-Grown Meat Still Stuck In Its Infancy
Dr. Vladimir Mironov estimates it will take $US1 billion to make lab-grown meat products a reality and use them to solve world hunger forever. He barely has $US1 million. Won’t you help him save the world?