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Telegraph, 02.01.09 13:03 UTC

New Year 2009: Leading thinkers offer predictions of 'next big thing'

Leading thinkers - including Craig Venter and Ian McEwan - have marked New Year 2009 by predicting what will be the next big thing to shape the future.
New Year's Day  energy production  solar technology  online intellectual discussion group  physical tools  energy  +7 more

Wired, 30.12.08 14:30 UTC

Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself. Using homemade ...
SAN FRANCISCO  Cambridge  cancer  Google  Apple Computer  Massachusetts  +13 more

Times Online World News, 26.12.08 22:32 UTC

Biohackers attempt to unstitch the fabric of life

At a loss for things to do this woozy post-Christmas weekend? Well, if you have access to a garage or basement or even just some extra room on your dining table you could always take up a hobby that ...
SAN FRANCISCO  Christmas  DNA  Google  laboratory equipment  chemical  +6 more

Wired, 01.12.08 14:30 UTC

Genetically Modified Peanuts Could Save Lives

Scientists have genetically engineered peanuts to silence two of the genes responsible for the most common cause of fatal allergic reactions to food in the United States. While the research is ...
allergic reactions  Georgia  food  United States  Peggy Ozias-Akins  University of Georgia  +1 more

Wired, 01.12.08 13:32 UTC

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops

KUNMING, China (AP) -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential - rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in ...
Beijing  Kunming  MANILA  The Associated Press  Alabama  Yunnan  +24 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 30.11.08 17:31 UTC

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops

(11-30) 08:48 PST KUNMING, China (AP) -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high ...
Beijing  Kunming  MANILA  The Associated Press  Alabama  Yunnan  +24 more

WashingtonPost Business, 03.11.08 03:02 UTC

Extra-Nutritious Bioengineered Foods Still Years Away

For years, advocates of agricultural biotechnology have promised a future in which foods will be genetically engineered to give more nutrition and to prevent chronic diseases, in which crops will be ...
cancer  heart disease  Nature Biotechnology  agricultural biotechnology  biotechnology  modified seeds  +7 more

USA Today, 26.10.08 23:34 UTC

Purple tomato with snapdragon gene could fight cancer

British researchers have used genes from the snapdragon flower to increase tomatoes' cancer-fighting powers.
Norwich  cancer  United Kingdom  Cathie Martin  John Innes Centre  genetic engineering 

Daily Mail, 24.10.08 14:37 UTC

Exam board admits it dumbed down science GCSEs to make it easier to pass

Comments ( 3 ) Add to My Stories England's largest exam board has revealed it has been forced to dumb down its science GCSE because it was too difficult for pupils to get a good pass. The Assessment ...
My Stories England  the Times  Times Educational Supplement  least problematic solution  United Kingdom  Mike Cresswell  +3 more

Forbes, 08.10.08 15:33 UTC

Biotech's Glowing Breakthrough Wins Nobel Prize

Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work turning a protein found in jellyfish into a ubiquitous biotech tool that is used in drug discovery, genetic engineering and ...
San Diego  California  Georgia  chemical reactions  ubiquitous biotech tool  Columbia  +16 more
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