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Man Avoids Murder Conviction After Expert Testified via Skype
We all love technology. Sometimes it crashes and breaks but when you get to talk to a friend or family member in a country the other side of the planet, you truly begin to understand just how much technology frees us. In one case this has become more than a…
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Microsoft Looking at Synthetic DNA to Store Data
When it comes to finding and retrieving information, nature is still a thousand steps ahead of man when it comes to containing, storing and processing information. Be it the human brain or the very DNA we are made up of, we are constantly inspired and reminded of ways to upgrade…
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Illumina – The Google of DNA
We have all used Google and other search engines to find everything from that news article we told our friends about the other day to the cute cat video that we just can’t stop watching. We use search engines because they let us find and pick up things more easily,…
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Elon Musk to Eschew Genetic Engineering Over “The Hitler Problem”
Maverick entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO and founder of both electronic car company Tesla Motors and private astronautics outfit SpaceX, has distanced himself from ever toying with the human genome for fear of its association with Nazi eugenics programs. In an interview with Tim Urban of Wait But Why, Musk was asked…
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Chinese Scientists Edit Embryonic Human Genome
A group of Chinese scientists have become the first to edit the genetic code in a human embryo. The study, which aimed to remove the gene responsible for the potentially fatal blood disorder β-thalassaemia, rewrote the genetic material – using a technique known as CRISPR/Cas9 – of ‘non-viable’ embryos that…
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OK Go Plans to Release Album on DNA
Innovative rock band OK Go, famous for spectacular home-made music videos, wants to encode the band’s fourth album, Hungry Ghosts, on DNA. Lead singer Damian Kulash, who studied computer science at university, recalls the fork in the road that took him toward music: “I remember sitting with my friend and…
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Russia to Create a ‘Noah’s Ark’ Database Containing DNA From Every Animal in the World
Russia has awarded a huge national grant to Moscow State University to facilitate the creation of a ‘Noah’s Ark’ containing DNA from every living creature on the Earth, the first database of its kind. The database should be completed by 2018 and the storage vault is said to cover an…
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Online Matchmaking for Coffee
We’ve all heard of online matchmaking sites when it comes to dating, but this is somewhat more useful. At least to me, and I’m loving this idea, lets hope it spreads to more parts of the world. Craft Coffee has come up with a concept of matching the perfect cup…
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Jellyfish DNA Can Make Glow In The Dark Pigs
When scientists from Turkey created glow in the dark Rabbits in August 2013, we wondered whether or not this interesting experiment would continue. Well it has, a team from the South China Agricultural University has been able to produce 10 glow in the dark pigs. The pigs turn a green…
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Teenager Builds DNA Testing Machine In His Bedroom, Stuns Scientists
Scientists are stunned by a teenager Fred Turner from Brighouse, West Yorkshire, who built a working DNA testing machine in his bedroom see if this brother, Gus, has a mutated gene to cause ginger hair. Yeah!! He wanted to know why is brother is Ginger, and he isn’t. He calls…
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A strand DNA can store upto 2.2 petabytes of data
Researchers from the European Bioinformatics institute were able to encode 154 Shakespeare sonnets and Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech in a single strand of DNA. This came to a total of 739KB but the researchers are confident that it can hold 2.2 petabytes of information. It is…
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