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Synopsis: Biotech: Biotech generale: Biology: Biology:

was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC), U s

Applications for this kind of materials mix can be found in diverse domains such as the pharmaceutical industry, the food and processing industry, energy production or systems biology.

and analyze them in sophisticated labs. Now a team of biologists has created a new tool that could provide a quick cheap way to perform sophisticated lab analyses

and diagnostics in the field and may also offer a way to speed science in the lab. The tool called a paper gene circuit takes biological reactions out of cells and puts them onto a piece of paper.

Over the past 15 years biologists have created hundreds of these gene circuits picking and choosing useful bits of biology

and putting them together in new ways. Pardee s circuits use a device called a##toehold switch##created by coauthor Alexander Green also a postdoctoral fellow at Boston and Pardee s colleague at the Wyss Institute

Because biological systems are particularly good at sensing changes in the environmentâ##our cells constantly monitor blood sugar

But would something that worked for a chemical reaction work for biology too?####That was our first question:

and also for faster science in the lab.##In biology you spend a lot of time tool building.

But when they encounter biological tissue, they either reflect off the body harmlessly or get absorbed by the skin as heat.

or biological tissue. For instance, when you put your ear on a railroad track, you can hear the vibration of the wheels long before the train itself

The design was inspired by natural biological motors that have evolved to perform specific tasks critical to the function of cells says Jong Hyun Choi a Purdue University assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Whereas biological motors are made of protein researchers are trying to create synthetic motors based on DNA the genetic materials in cells that consist of a sequence of four chemical bases:

and developed the ability to react with oxide minerals rather than breathe oxygen as we do to convert organic nutrients into biological fuel.

and convert it into biological fuel their excess electrons flow into the carbon filaments and across to the positive electrode

With DNATRAX the bacteria is replaced by particles of non-biological DNA that can be collected with simple forensic swabs

The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs.

Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.

build and remediate engineered biological systems that process information, manipulate chemicals, fabricate materials and structures,

) Craig Smith, a deep-sea biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will lead an initial assessment of seafloor life for Lockheed s project, gathering baseline data for the potential harvest zone

Tyler Jacks director of MIT s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the David H. Koch Professor of Biology is the paper s senior author.

Strano and the paper lead author, postdoc and plant biologist Juan Pablo Giraldo, envision turning plants into self-powered, photonic devices such as detectors for explosives or chemical weapons.

Giraldo says. t an opportunity for people from plant biology and the chemical engineering nanotechnology community to work together in an area that has a large potential.

Xin Zhang research associate in the Division of Biology; and Jianzhen Zhang visiting scientist from Shanxi University in China developed the technology:

a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science, technology and medicine. The new study, published in print today in the journal Nano Letters,

demonstrates how stable'lipid membranes'the thin'skin'that surrounds all biological cells can be applied to synthetic surfaces.

Importantly, the new technique can use these lipid membranes to'draw'akin to using them like a biological ink with a resolution of 6 nanometres (6 billionths of a meter),

and promises the ability to position functional biological molecules such as those involved in taste, smell,

"explained Professor Evans. Aside from biological applications, this area of research could revolutionise renewable energy production. Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield,

the researchers will be able to arbitrarily swap out the biological units and replace them with synthetic components to create a new generation of solar cells.

whereby engineering principles are being applied to biological parts whether it is for energy capture, or to create artificial noses for the early detection of disease

The researchers also needed a platform on which biological components, like br, could survive and connect with the titanium dioxide catalyst:

merged with biology, can create new sources of clean energy. Her team's discovery may provide future consumers a biologically-inspired alternative to gasoline."

and behave like smart, soft biological material, and integrate it with cells and cellular networks at the whole-tissue level.

ultraflexible electronics into the brain and allow them to become fully integrated with the existing biological web of neurons.

It's unlikely that this clone could develop into a human say the scientists a team of biologists from the U s. and Thailand.

Mitalipov is a biologist who studies cells and development at the Oregon Health and Science University.

So is a biological system with the future potential to develop into a person itself an actual person or not?

#Nanoporous Gold Sponge Detects Pathogens Faster This novel technique enables sensitive DNA detection in compound biological samples e g.,

assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,

#Nanoporous Gold Sponge Detects Pathogens Faster This novel technique enables sensitive DNA detection in compound biological samples e g.,

assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,

#Making life more resistant to stress A recent paper in Current Biology suggests that plants can be engineered against climate change, even drought.

Building with Biology (TED Conferences, 2014. This op-ed is part of a series provided by the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, class of 2015.

Knowing the detailed shape of biomolecules such as proteins is essential for biological studies and drug discovery.

"Longchamp noted the technique would also open the door for"rational drug design,"an inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target.

In many conventional techniques such as transmission electron microscopy, the possible resolution is limited by high-energy electrons'radiation damage to biological samples.

"As altering the para position has been a common approach in biology and materials science for creating benzene-containing functional molecules,

"said Percival Zhang, a professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, which is in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.

Typically in biological conversions, these two sugars can only be used sequentially, not simultaneously which adds time and money to the process.

"Our system represents an emerging alliance between the fields of materials sciences and biology, where opportunities to make new functional devices can mix

solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide. ur system represents an emerging alliance between the fields of materials sciences and biology,

#A fast cell sorter shrinks to cell phone size Commercially available cell sorters can rapidly and accurately aid medical diagnosis and biological research,

and biological research. ecause the device is built on a lab-on-a chip system, it is both compact and inexpensive about the size and cost of a cell phone in its current configuration.

Lung and Blood Institute of the National institutes of health, published their work in a recent issue of Lab on a Chip. ell sorting is used widely in many areas of biology to characterize

as well as other fields in biology, in concomitantly overcoming all of these obstacles. It is quite easy to envision applications for this technology in diverse environments from a family doctor office to field studies in limnology. n future work,

Ingber is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as professor of bioengineering at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.

and designed said Peng Yin senior author of the paper Wyss Core Faculty member and Assistant professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical school.

#Smallest world record has ndless possibilitiesfor bionanotechnology Scientists from the University of Leeds have taken a crucial step forward in bionanotechnology a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science technology and medicine.

demonstrates how stable'lipid membranes'--the thin'skin'that surrounds all biological cells--can be applied to synthetic surfaces.

Importantly, the new technique can use these lipid membranes to'draw'--akin to using them like a biological ink--with a resolution of 6 nanometres (6 billionths of a meter

and promises the ability to position functional biological molecules--such as those involved in taste, smell,

"explained Evans. Aside from biological applications, this area of research could revolutionise renewable energy production. Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield,

the researchers will be able to arbitrarily swap out the biological units and replace them with synthetic components to create a new generation of solar cells.

whereby engineering principles are being applied to biological parts --whether it is for energy capture, or to create artificial noses for the early detection of disease

with a possible focus on filtering biological contaminants from groundwater to make it safe to drink. There are already a number of filters on the market that can do this,

The system is equipped also to treat the biological contaminants that Wright initially thought she be treating,

It is common for these so-called chiral molecules to exist in just one form in biological systems,

The only difference is that we are using biology to make it, and we are using renewable raw materials.

and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.

This work was headed by Huilin Li, Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University biologist, and Tong Wang, the other lead co-author of the paper and who also works with Li in the Biosciences department of Brookhaven.

"said Dr. Carmen Gomes, Agrilife Research engineer with the Texas A&m University department of biological and agricultural engineering, College Station.

"I do the biological and polymer engineering; he does the electrochemistry and nanostructures, "she said.

As for the biological component, Gomes said she is using"nanobrushes"specially designed to grab particular bacteria.

The findings, published in Nature Chemical Biology, raise promise for medicine but also concerns about"home-brewed"illegal drugs.

said Warren Ruder, an assistant professor of biological systems engineering in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering."

understanding the biochemical sensing between organisms could have far reaching implications in ecology, biology, and robotics.

#Biodiesel production from Sugarcane A multi-institutional team led by plant biology professor Stephen P. Long from the University of Illinois reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent

Long is an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois s

spent two years using a PCC store as a iving laboratory to understand how food waste is created in a retail grocery environment. n 2010 the WISERG teamith the help of biologists, computer programmers and engineerseveloped a solution:

the processing of the woolen fabric samples by using optimum amount of honeycomb nanocomposite such as N-Ag/Zno improves the biological, mechanical and hydrophilicity of the fabrics.

with a possible focus on filtering biological contaminants from groundwater to make it safe to drink. There are already a number of filters on the market that can do this,

The system is equipped also to treat the biological contaminants that Wright initially thought shed be treating,

taking known fundamental principles of biology and applying them as an engineer would.""Others are more critical."

you may need to remember a bit of basic biology. The enzymes and other proteins in our bodies are built all from building blocks called amino acids.

"Reporting the results in PLOS Biology, the team says with 5ht2ar turned off in mice,

enabling in-situ measurements in various security and health relevant fields including biology, medicine, food control, and pharmacy.

#Lawrence Livermore technology could help detect diseases in commercial swine industry Agricultural officials who seek to detect diseases affecting the commercial swine industry may gain a new ally a biological detection system developed by Lawrence Livermore

said LLNL biologist Crystal Jaing, who oversees LLNL microbial detection array collaborations. PCR test cannot.

Phd student in the Department of Biological sciences and lead author on the study. hus, there is active interest in how best to manage the species to ensure their long-term survival.

Scown says. y strategically piecing together biological and thermochemical processes, biorefineries can also operate without any fossil-derived inputs. o

From a biological point of view, there no other way to achieve this. After all, the material for example that of a fallen pinecone is already dead.

which the pores roughly model the cells in the biological material. What they found is fascinating.

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