Synthetic cell membrane marks another step towards creation of fully artificial life forms
Posted by admin in Future on 30. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The cell membrane is one of the most important components of a cell because it separates the interior from the environment and controls the movement of substances in and out of the cell. In a move that brings mankind another step closer to being able to create artificial life forms from scratch, chemists from the [...]
Electronic contact lenses tested successfully in real live eyes
Posted by admin in Future, Hi-tech on 23. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
The device’s display has only one pixel, but serves as a working proof-of-concept for developing more complex information lenses. A useful device would need hundreds of pixels at least, to display a short email or text message. The lens harvests energy from an external source using an antenna and has an integrated circuit to [...]
Supercooled quantum levitating hoverboard lets students glide on air
Posted by admin in Future on 27. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
You probably saw that super viral quantum locking levitation video that bounced all over the Web last week (though technically it’s been around since summer) in which a team of researchers plays with some liquid nitrogen, a small superconducting disc, and some strange quantum phenomenon that makes the disc hover above a magnet, no strings [...]
New technology developed for the large-scale editing of DNA
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 15. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
While scientists have long had the ability to edit individual genes, it is a slow, expensive and hard to use process. Now researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed technologies, which they liken to the genetic equivalent of the find-and-replace function of a word processing program, that allow them to make large-scale edits to a [...]
Let’s reconstitute humans from genomes launched into space!
Posted by admin in Future, Space on 17. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival, spawning the first interstellar citizens and avoiding the problems of long-distance space survival. That’s just one idea — proposed by genome pioneer J. Craig Venter — emerging from the field of dreams seeded by DARPA’s 100-Year Starship project. DARPA is collecting [...]
