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November 12, 2012 (TSR) - As temperatures soar and droughts increase in frequency, scientists around the world are working to create food crops tolerant of extreme temperatures - often an…
September 27, 2012 (TSR) - A new United Nations partnership announced on 26 September that it would make a long lasting contraceptive implant available to 27 million women living in…
September 26, 2012 (TSR) - Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a new kind of barcode (colored fluorescent biomarkers) that could come…
September 26, 2012 (TSR) - In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, scientists have crossed a major threshold. Using precisely-targeted lasers, Harvard researchers have…
July 21, 2012 (TSR) - China and Russia will start clinical tests on the Cuban pharmaceutical known as Heberprot-P, used to treat diabetic foot ulcers. It is the only one of its type…
July 11, 2012 (TSR) - If passed, an amendment in the Agricultural Appropriations Bill will not just allow, but require the secretary of agriculture to grant permits for planting or cultivating…
Jan. 11, 2012 (TSR) - The world’s largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyze data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours. The trick is…
The genetic information of all living cells is stored in the DNA composed of the four canonical bases adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). An international team…
NOBEL laureate Barry Marshall plans to become the first Australian to post his own full genetic code, or genome, on the internet, even though it does reveal unsettling insights. His…
San Francisco, CA, USA. December 8, 2010. (TSR)- A device that reads the sequence of DNA using semiconductor technology could bring the power of sequencing to a much broader swath…
BARCELONA, Spain. November 26, 2010 (TSR) - Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona UAB, in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Microelectronics…
Giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, based in Basel, is developing a pill containing an embedded microchip, which it hopes to submit for regulatory approval in Europe within 18 months.…
COMBATTING GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: FUNGI OFFER NON-GM WAY TO ENHANCE FOOD CROPS
Long Lasting Contraceptive Implant to 27 million Women: A UN-Norway-Bayer-Clinton, et al Initiative
New DNA ‘Origami’ Barcoding: Limitless, Low cost and Robust
Worm complete mind control: Human brains soon?
World’s First: China and Russia to Test Cuban Diabetic Foot Ulcers Pharmaceutical with Ecuador
Monsanto Immunity? New U.S. bill could make biotech companies immune to courts
Chinese Crunch Human Genome With Videogame Chips
Hacking the Genome: Scientists Create New Organisms Not Found in Nature
Genome power is about to sweep world: Nobel laureate
The Chip is the Machine
Scientists attach barcodes to mouse embryos — human ones coming soon
Chip-in-a-pill may be approved in 2012
