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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...