A study is being conducted to define various areas and aspects in the new field of "synthetic biology". According to the report, [I]"Synthetic biology is the engineering of biological components and systems that do not exist in nature and the re-engi...
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Fooling bacteria into powering tiny robots..
The story starts with: "A strain of bacteria that releases electrons as a waste product could become the secret ingredient for developing fuel cells for spy drones and other small robots."
It continues:
""Researchers at Rice University ...
Virus hacked to act as an electronic capacitor
Researchers have successfully hacked the spherical property of the mosaic virus to their advantage. They have used the readily available spherical surface of the virus to anchor iron atoms to make a nanoparticle. The iron atoms on the surface can store e...
Bacteria V/S Bacteria
Researches are planning to pit "good" bacteria against "bad" bacteria [i]salmonella[/o]. I must admit, this is also one of the biohacks which can save lives (of chickens). The good bacteria essentialy fights by not fighting. Well, this means they get...
Hacking insects for military uses
I don't think it is ethical bit DARPA is planning to "create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions."
They want to insert micro chips in the insects at their pupa stage and then w...
Hacking Biochemistry of DNA to create Art…
Scientists have hacked the properties of DNA to create wonderful images.. They have manipulated it to resemble the map of Americas, similies and other things. They call this technology 'DNA Origami'. It is wonderful to see that apart from carryi...
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Nanotech hacks Biology via Nanobiotechnology..
Cryptic huh? It does not matter if the title is comprehensible to you or not, you cannot escape the reality. And the reality is that the bridge between living and non-living is blurring with the coming age of nanobiotechnology. You might say "I have hea...
Is Evolution Predictable?
Is the Life on earth somewhat unique? Or, if we could somehow find life on other celestial boides, they would be so radically diiferent that we won't even recognize them?
In [URL=http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060314_evo_repeats.html]this a...
Life without DNA?
We have been greatly conditioned to believe that the basis of life is DNA (or RNA in retroviruses). But what if I say that life has been found which is not made of DNA or RNA? To add to excitement, what if I say that the non-DNA life is not even earthly?...