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DNA Embedded Into 3D Printed Rabbit To Make Copies of Itself
Researchers embedded a 3D-printed plastic white rabbit with DNA that contains instructions for printing new bunnies. Using the information, the rabbit can be replicated not just one time but several...
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This Longevity Gene Keeps Plants Alive After Flowering
Wouldn’t it be nice to harvest wheat from the same field, without having to plant new wheat plants? Thanks to Leiden scientists, that could become possible. But how? They discovered a gene that allows...
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Glowing Mushrooms DNA To Produce Plants That Glow
Out of nearly 100,000 fungal species, around 80 are known to be bioluminescent. A 2015 study found that the mushrooms emit a bluish-green light from within to attract flies, ants, wasps, and beetles,...
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New Synthetic Fungal Compound Cause Cancer Cells To Self-Destruct
Every single cell in your body has a lifespan. When it completes its duty, it dies by undergoing a process called apoptosis. There is a specific gene in the cell that takes care of executing this sort...
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DNA Data Storage Made Practical And Scaleable
A DNA strand’s data storage capacity is mind-boggling – 215 million GB of data can be stored in just one gram of DNA. To illustrate, the extreme density of DNA storage is enough to save the entirety of...
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CRISPR Gene Editing Could Help You Stay Thin
White fat cells are the ones filled with a lipid that make up fatty deposits – and human adults have lots of them. There’s another type called brown fat cells, which we don’t have many of. They are the...
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Gene-Editing Cows To Cut Methane Emissions From Burps And Farts
Researchers have explored several different kinds of diet supplements to stop the cows from releasing so much methane, including puffy pink seaweed, tropical leaves, oregano, and fish oils. Last year,...
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Lipid Nanoparticles Can Deliver CRISPR Kits To Specific Organs And Tissues
CRISPR is a marvelous development that allows for removing or altering a gene within a cell with great precision. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna created the highly targeted gene-editing...
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The World’s First Portable, Accessible, And Affordable DNA Sequencer
A young man named Aspyn Palatnick, now 22, has spent the last eight years programming the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer. He started the project as a 14-year-old high school intern in...
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Cancer Research Has Led To A Heart Regeneration Discovery
Researchers from the University of Cambridge‘s Department of Pharmacology have inadvertently discovered a gene that triggers heart cell regeneration, which could one day lead to a way to heal damaged...
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