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07/23/2018 / By David Williams

Scientists find way to operate tiny “factories” inside engineered cells

In an effort to further improve current and future methods used in the biomedical field, a group of researchers have figured out a way to control the “factories” that essentially breathe life into engineered cells. As a report on the finding states, the technique used by the researchers involves making changes to the natural ribosomes […]

06/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Silk hybrid material can attack bacteria when illuminated by a green light

Indiana and Korean researchers have found a way to fuse a far-red fluorescent protein into silk. When exposed to green light, the resulting material will release molecules that kill bacteria and other dangerous pathogens, according to a NanoWerk article. Touted to be all-natural by its creators, the new biomaterial offers an alternative way to sterilize pathogens. […]

12/04/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Coming soon: GMO wine — experts have discovered the gene in yeast DNA that alters flavor

If the biotech industry has taught the world anything, it’s that they just can’t leave well enough alone. The number of foods being targeted for genetic modification continues to grow and now, the industry has set its sights on a popular adult beverage: Wine. Researchers from the VIB Institute in Flanders, Belgium have isolated the […]

08/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

HORROR FARMS: Genetically altered pigs to be grown and harvested for human organ transplants

Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church has announced that the first organ transplants from pigs to humans could take place in just two years, after scientists found a way to combine gene editing and cloning to overcome some of the longstanding obstacles to pig organ transplants in an act that takes going against nature to new […]

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