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Imagine All the People Turning Blue and Green
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 30, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Chemistry,Everyday Science,Infectious Diseases,Science Education,Psychology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news

Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 2
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 27, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Technology,Society & Policy,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology Source Type: news

Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 1
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 27, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Technology,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology Source Type: news

Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spawn a New Era of the Hybrid
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A bird that once darkened the skies of the 19th-century U.S. no longer exists, except as well-preserved museum specimens bearing bits of DNA. An ambitious new effort aims to use the latest techniques of genetic manipulation to bring the passenger pigeon back , as North Dakotan Ben Novak, a would-be de-extinction scientist working on the Revive & Restore project at the Long Now Foundation, told the crowd at the TEDxDeExtinction event here on March 15. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 26, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Evolution,Environment,Health,History of Science,Technology,Society & Policy,Biotechnology,Energy Sustainability,Evolutionary Biology,Ecology,Biotechnology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news

How to Kick-Start Innovation with Free Data
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Government-funded projects have yielded a wealth of information , but much of this data has historically remained locked up in difficult-to-use form. To get this data to people who might start businesses with them, the Obama administration created the position of chief technology officer. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 23, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Technology,Communications,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Health,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Genetically Engineered Immune Cells Found to Rapidly Clear Leukemia Tumors
Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 21, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Pharmaceuticals,Biotechnology,Health,Biotechnology Source Type: news

Will We Kill Off Today's Animals If We Revive Extinct Ones?
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The rebirth of an extinct frog species may come from the freezer, not the stomach. The gastric brooding frog, when it existed on Earth, swallowed its eggs, transformed its stomach into a womb and vomited up its young once sufficiently grown. But the frog disappeared from the mountains of southern Australia shortly after it was discovered in the 1970s, persisting only as a few frozen specimens in the bottom of a scientist's freezer. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - March 19, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Evolution,Biotechnology,Chemistry,Environment,History of Science,Technology,Society & Policy,More Science,Energy Sustainability,Evolutionary Biology,Climate,Ecology,Biotechnology,Archaeology Paleontology,Biology Source Type: news

Newt Finding Might Set Back Efforts to Regrow Human Limbs
The ability of some animals to regenerate tissue is generally considered to be an ancient quality of all multicellular animals. A genetic analysis of newts, however, now suggests that it evolved much more recently. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 21, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology Source Type: news

Can Ethanol from Corn Be Made Sustainable?
A new plant is rising from the fields around Emmetsburg, Iowa--one that will ferment into ethanol the cobs, stems and husks of corn from nearly 50,000 hectares of farmland. Such cellulosic ethanol offers a way to get the energy and environmental security benefits of biofuels without disrupting the food supply when the edible corn itself is used. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 20, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Technology,Society Policy,Everyday Science,More Science,Energy Technology,Environment,Alternative Energy Technology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Energy Technology,Alternative Energy Technology Source Type: news

Extinction : New Sci-Fi from Mark Alpert
Mark Alpert is a former editor at Scientific American who has gone on to become a best-selling science fiction writer. We talk about his latest book, Extinction , an apocalyptic tale hinging on brain-machine interfaces.           [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 14, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Technology,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Mind & Brain Source Type: news

Extinction : New SciFi from Mark Alpert
Mark Alpert is a former editor at Scientific American who has gone on to become a best-selling science fiction writer. We talk about his latest book, Extinction , an apocalyptic tale hinging on brain-machine interfaces.           [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 14, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Technology,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Mind & Brain Source Type: news

The Joy of Fungal Sex: Penicillin Mold Can Reproduce Sexually, Which Could Lead to Better Antibiotics
By turning off the lights, setting up an oatmeal-based bed and slipping some extra vitamins into their food, researchers have persuaded the supposedly asexual mold that makes penicillin to have sex. The fungi's ability to switch it up sexually could help industrial scientists breed more efficient antibiotic-producing strains or even lead to the discovery of new, useful compounds. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 8, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology Source Type: news

Unhealthy Glow: Fluorescent Tadpoles Expose Chemical Contamination
In cartoons glowing goo signals that there is bad stuff in the water. Now life imitates art: A French biotechnology company has created a transgenic tadpole that fluoresces when it encounters chemical contaminants in water that disrupt thyroid functioning. The test promises to shine a light on a class of endocrine-disrupting pollutants, which pollution regulators have in their crosshairs. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 7, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Technology,Environment,Health,Society & Policy,Biotechnology,More Science,Evolution,Ecology,Biotechnology,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news

A Hacked Database Prompts Debate about Genetic Privacy
Linking a human genome in an anonymous sequencing database to its real-world counterpart wasn’t supposed to be possible. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 5, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Chemistry,Health,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Technology Source Type: news

Injectable Foam Blocks Internal Bleeding on the Battlefield
Despite their best efforts to stabilize abdominal wounds sustained on the battlefield, military first-responders have few options when it comes to stanching internal bleeding caused by, for example, gunshots or explosive fragments. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it is studying a new type of injectable foam that molds to organs and slows hemorrhaging. This could provide field medics with a way to buy more time for soldiers en route to medical treatment facilities. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - February 4, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Technology,Chemistry,Health,Physics,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology Source Type: news