Synthetic biology could control your mind
Here’s a typically scary interesting story from the Daily Mail. The article asks: could synthetic biology lead to mind hackers? (Whilst I was surprised that the Mail was aware of synthetic biology, I...
View ArticleiGEM showcase part 2: Materials Science
In the first post of this series I looked at the last three winners of the iGEM Grand Prize: University of Washington, Team Slovenia and the University of Cambridge. In the second post I shall cover...
View ArticleHow To Grow A Planet (featuring Exeter Biosciences)
Tune in to BBC2 on Tuesday 7th Feb @ 9pm to see University of Exeter Plant Science on the telly! This first episode of a new three-part series, “How To Grow A Planet“, features an experiment I...
View ArticleDNA origami nanorobots
There’s a new report in Science, “a logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads” from Shawn Douglas, Ido Bachelet and George Church with plenty of coverage, including Nature, New...
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