because researchers accurately blocked its production using the technique of RNA interference1. And in pigs, scientists have used an enzyme called a TALEN2 to scramble a gene that would normally help remove cholesterol.
RNA interference (RNAI) and TALENS are more accurate at targeting the gene in question than are earlier genetic engineering techniques.
because the techniques available to introduce foreign genes into animal genomes were not precise, and misplaced genes failed to express themselves correctly.
"The TALEN technology is staggeringly easy, quick, and leaves no mark in the genome, says Bruce Whitelaw, a molecular biologist at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in the United kingdom,
but the technique makes genetic engineering less costly and more efficient.""I d be exaggerating if
In December last year, the Brazilian Development Bank launched a 1-billion-real (US$481-million) credit line to stimulate research and development in cellulosic biofuels and other advanced sugar-cane technologies.
The Center for Sugarcane Technology, an industry-sponsored organization based in S £o Paulo has taken up a 357-million-real loan to build a cellulosic ethanol plant next year,
when the technology is mature, says Oswaldo Godoy, a project manager at the organization. The Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (EMBRAPA) is also throwing its weight behind bioenergy.
has promised to build up research on biomass technology and double EMBRAPA s funding for that area,
Lopes says that Brazil will be"unbeatable once cellulosic technology matures.""No other country has the logistics we have in place,
But scientists and environmentalists are pushing for an expanded effort to nurture low-carbon technologies.
and has said that hydraulic-fracturing technologies, used properly, are safe. Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
He served as the energy agency s assistant secretary for efficiency and renewable energy under former president Bill clinton and was a staff member on then-president Jimmy carter s commission to investigate the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania.
The President s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has recommended increasing spending on energy research and development from around US$4 billion per year to $16 billion,
Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task force in Boston, Massachusetts, argues that Obama could attract conservative support for a strategic research programme focused on large-scale energy technologies such as carbon capture and storage
Once technologies are developed, government agencies could use their buying power to expand production and reduce prices."
Seed-patent case in Supreme Courta technology called a terminator was never going to curry much favour with the public.
when it patented a method for engineering transgenic crops to produce sterile seed, forcing farmers to buy new seed for each planting.
The concept, if not the technology, is now gaining traction again. This week, the US Supreme court hears arguments that pit Monsanto against 75-year-old Indiana soya-bean farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman
from seeds to microbes, prompting them to revisit terminator-like technology.""If I were at Monsanto and
copycat proliferation of their technology, are already working on terminator-like safeguards. Bowman was a regular customer for Monsanto s herbicide-resistant soya beans for his main crop,
it grew from a simple contract violation to a challenge of the idea that companies can use patents to limit the offspring of naturally self-replicating technologies.
Early patents on gene-use restriction technologies later rebranded as terminator technology by activists opposed to them described a genetic modification that switched on production of a toxin that would kill off developing plant embryos.
what Kelly calls a gene-guard technology: a genetic tweak that makes production of the desired chemical dependent on a proprietary additive,
In a strange twist of fate, terminator technology has begun to look more appealing to environmentalists.
"that technology would have alleviated a lot of environmental concerns, says Holman. Approaches dependent on switching will take considerable research, however;
companies reported technical challenges with the first generation of terminator techniques. Patents owned by Monsanto required the insertion of three different genes into the plant genome.
Monsanto says it is currently not researching the techniques, and other companies are hoping that they will not have to."
"Perhaps these technologies could provide new ways to protect investments, says Brett Lund, former head of intellectual property for the biofuels group of Syngenta,
Natasha Gilbertafrican agriculture African farmers must use sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies to reverse rising hunger levels across the continent,
Energy spending Investment in renewable energy technologies still falls short of the level needed to clean up the global energy system
global markets in solar photovoltaic technology and wind energy grew by 42%and 19%,respectively,
Venture declines US venture-capital investments shrank 12%to US$5. 9 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with the life sciences and clean technology particularly affected, according to a report by accountancy firm Pricewaterhousecoopers
%and investment in clean technology declined by 35%relative to the previous quarter. First time deals for start-ups in the life sciences dropped by 52%to $98 million the lowest level since 1996.
Even armed with modern breeding techniques and 15 Â known defence genes in the apple family
Other pioneers argue that the techniques they are using to modify plants are safer than old technologies
"There are any number of companies exploring new techniques to produce crops that don t trigger regulatory oversight,
The regulation of GM CROPS in the United states is based on laws that were not tailor-made for the technology.
Switzerland, are vying to license the technology.""The first thing they asked me was, Have you been through APHIS?
but is working with outside researchers to develop other crops using similar technology. Jennifer Kuzma, a policy analyst at North carolina State university in Raleigh, says that a lack of regulation for the latest approaches could fuel public suspicions about GM CROPS."
"One could argue that the technologies are targeted more and you re doing things in a smarter way,
companies do not yet have much experience in working with the technique, or navigating the patents needed to use it.
Rapid soil-fertility assessment, a new spectroscopy technique used to analyse samples and produce site-specific soil maps for farmers,
Critics, however, argue that the technique is impractical and costly, and that organic fertilizers such as manure are cheaper and greener.
To help, researchers at CIAT developed the spectroscopy technique, which uses mid-infrared light, to precisely determine the mineral properties, nutrient content and organic chemistry of sub-Saharan soils.
Although still in its infancy, the technology could one day be used to evaluate and map the yield potential of soils across the region information that would then be relayed to farmers."
"the notion that intricate and expensive lab technology will influence farming practices in Sub-saharan africa is farfetched.
A lab-scale experiment suggests that the solvent might already produce cellulosic ethanol some 10%more cheaply than existing state-of-the-art technology,
part of the team that developed the technology. Other academic and industrial scientists say that the chemical treatment is promising,
Unexpected hurdles could arise as the technology is tested at larger scales and in the meantime, enzymes are rapidly becoming cheaper:
"The point is that we have a new technology that we have been developing for a year,
Barriers to success are now not so much the high costs of the technology to break down cellulose as the lack of guaranteed markets for bioethanol,
This country is very successful in technology and wants to establish a business and base on the moon.
because the technology did not exist to shield astronauts from the solar wind. We might be able to go to the moon one day soon technology has increased vastly since the 60's especially force field tech.@
@Better 2011...how many countries in the 60's had the tech to call foul? Only Russia and they lied as well
when they said they sent humans to orbit the moon. Everything on the moon the rovers the flag the mirror could have been placed there by probes.
It's not just Google that's developing the technology but also most of the major car manufacturers:
This year will mark another key milestone in self-driving technology. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is expected widely to announce standards
For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel Google's crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques including emergency braking high-speed lane changes
but we don't actually know the value of the technology to society he says yet.
Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad. And its data experts have been talking with some of the big insurance companies.
For the car companies the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
If Detroit started designing self-driving cars now around components that actually exist there's no way the technology could get to the showroom by 2017.
or body style to come out to build the technology he told the SAE audience. I'm looking forward to the aftermarket seeding this
It too is filled with catch-22's. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker's analysis of self-driving-car technology.
But that doesn't mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted. There wasn't legal protection for the Wright brothers
But 50 years after Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed sparked a revolution in safety engineering people are finally starting to take the joke seriously.
Technology he says should prevent oblivious drivers from causing harm. Self-driving-car boosters talk about a virtuous circle that starts
It uses technology that's already built into every high-end Volvo sold today plus a communications system.
A 2012 IEEE study estimates that widespread adoption of autonomous-driving technology could increase highway capacity fivefold simply by packing traffic closer together.
Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
autonomous technology could help them get there faster. Mercedes offers Distronic Plus with Steering Assist as an option on the 2014 S-class luxury sedans.
But the real engineering challenge is making sure the driver stays alert. All kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing says auto-drive consultant Brad Templeton who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.
So engineers have begun to design countermeasures. Mercedes for example requires two hands on the steering wheel at all times.
www. facebook. com/dance2022digital Auto Networks for Crash Elimination (DANCE) by 2022assuming one day this technology in the future will be'perfect and wonderful'WHO ultimately will take responsibility should an accident occurs?
The only way to get a Leap Forward with this technology is fully self driving to the point a 13 year old can jump in the car
or build a complete small town and engineer it for completely autonomous cars from the the ground up.
and should not be in a position of influence over the use of this technology.
Historically it has taken 30 years in the automobile industry for a a new technology to become a production available technology.
Sure the technology may be developed for extremely limited applications but unless the concept of liability changes significantly we will never see public streets filled with robo-cars.
Regardless of how good the tech may be it will still break down from time to time. That means that there will still be accidents.
I'm a professional tech journalist btw12: 30: who the hell decided GLASS was a good material for a thing you fumble with while drunk.
47 Jenna Wortham who writes about technology for a website called the New york times told me she wants the gold iphone.
/what-the-iphone-20-and-galaxy-s-23-might-look like-together/Coverage of a major technology event via the equivalent of a drunk twitter account.
a fingerprint reader it's calling Touch ID. With its move Apple could end up making the technology commonplace as rivals might feel compelled to follow suit.
and will always be a group of people bringing to light some new tech or science in a layman's type of way (considering the fact that most people who want to know more in depth about something actually go
The International atomic energy agency may be known best for dealing with nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima reactor meltdown but it also works on crop science techniques that use radiation.
Crop scientists have used this technique called mutation breeding since the 1940s. Mutation breeding is considered not genetic engineering which puts genes from one species into another species. Genetic engineering can be a quick
but the FAO/IAEA Joint Programme doesn't use it because the IAEA focuses on radiation technologies.
We're not saying countries should not take advantage of GMO techniques also IAEA spokesman Greg Webb says.
Our job here is to help countries take advantage of nuclear techniques. Mutation breeding is quick easy and cheap to do Liang adds.
Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. I do not care if a person is motivated to read on a water balloon JUST READ!
This is important for the preservation of our world culture in a way that can be passed down even without the use of technology.
A combination of e-papers and Leap Motion technology will rival even touch screen technology. E-papers run on low voltage battery that can be integrated on the sheet and charged with a built-in solar strip.
because they do not get assembled they get stamped like information is stamped on mass produced DVD's. The only problem with this cheap technology is that is going to have the same issues as with free energy there will be no money in it
This is a marketing technique to get readers interested in digital reading. I read a lot. I mostly read ebooks.
and to absorb wastes under the constraints of current technology and management practices. A country has an ecological reserve
Food production technology continues to improve worldwide as does energy production. We feed more produce more energy
but technology and more efficient use of water is mitigating those problems. Depletion of forests and associated erosion and environmental damage in developing countries is a concern.
Better agricultural techniques that accompany rising wealth lead to better land management. People are amazing at solving their own problems even collectively on a global scale without any need for the pointy-haired government bosses
The problem solvers are engineers agronomists entrepreneurs fishermen farmers bakers; everyday people who see a way to improve something
They aren't producing technology to improve water resources in Africa. They aren't recycling waste.
They aren't teaching farming techniques to help impoverished people in Third world countries. They're petty bureaucrats who want to order people around.
Often advances are made not by scientists but by engineers inventors and everyday people. The problem will be solved.
a real one not the BS swine flu) Engineers are scientists too btw. Think applied physics.
what scientists and engineers can do to continue food and energy for a massive population.
The funding enables oceanographers to test new technologies while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover.
If we're able to use those techniques on natural environments there's nothing to say we can't apply it to the man-made objects on the seafloor Terrill says.
On land our major technology was a machete and underwater it was scuba tanks he says.
Using the two technologies in tandem helps to narrow wide-area searches and then pick out targets from clutter on the seafloor
Shannon Scott an engineer from Scripps descends with Terrill Colmer and O'brien. He carries a handheld sonar that displays acoustic images on an LCD screen allowing the divers to zero in on the floatplane even in five-foot visibility.
Scripps wants to use its technology to document this chapter of the Corsair's story too before it ends altogether.
When we reach the Corsair engineers lower the Remus now equipped with Gopro HERO3 HD cameras into the water
Scientists and naval historians could use such technology to document how wreck sites decay. Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it;
Technology! Big ag! The uncertainty of modern development! Like it or not most of what we eat in the U s. has been touched
or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.
If a suspected instance of a farmer violating our technology agreements or patent rights is reported to us we do not automatically assume a farmer has acted intentionally in an unethical or criminal manner.
The only reason this hasn't completely solved our food problem already is that the technology is fairly new
http://www. popsci. com/technology/article/2013-05/nasa-funding-3-d-printer-thatll-make-pizzai can't speak to taste
The honeycombs are human livers says Sharon Presnell chief technology officer of Organovo or at least the foundations of them.
Now scientists are working to apply similar 3-DâÂ#Ârinting technology to the field of medicine accelerating an equally dramatic change.
While Boland's lab worked out the problem of bioprinting other engineers applied 3-D printers to different medical challenges.
But those engineers had an advantage that Boland and his colleagues did not: They could print in three dimensions rather than just two.
Cornell engineer Hod Lipson co-author of Fabricated: The New world of 3d printing prototyped another kind of tissue:
So as mechanical engineers began to build early 3-D printers tissue engineers tried growing replacement organs in a lab. They started by pipetting cells into petri dishes by hand.
and the technology transformed their research. What had taken us days we could do in maybe two minutes he says.
Tissue engineers shouldn't place cells where they'd be in a finished organ Forgacs says;
Ibrahim Ozbolat a mechanical engineer at the University of Iowa has developed also a bioprinter which uses multiple arms moving in tandem to deposit a vascular network and cellular aggregates at the same time.
Scientists at MIT have built miniature liver models using micropatterning the same soft lithography technique used to put copper wires onto computer chips.
and nanoscientist developing a 3-D printer to manufacture medicine using chemical inks. Instead of printing a test tube out of plastic to do chemistry in let's say we now print our test tube out of tissue
Bioprinters are already demonstrating scientists'remarkable mastery of biology and engineering. Back at Organovo inside an otherwise unremarkable neon-lit clean room Dallas arranges human cells into intricate patterns that mirror those of nature.
Amazing technology. Ive been reading into it further and the stock symbol is ONVO. Printing livers?
When this technology is developed fully will I be able to specify things like higher capacity lungs or more powerful heart.
All that AURA of an amputee that is just going to waste is now with the help of New Technology (Magic Magee)
It chills. 3d printing technology more mature than just come out the average consumer to understand its function more and more deeply to see a 3d print reports that have been put in the military field responsible for the production of large originals. 3d printer compared to traditional manufacturing machinery greatly shorten product development
or http://goo. gl/2wt6lu view details. 3d printing technology more mature than just come out the average consumer to understand its function more and more deeply to see a 3d print reports that have been put in the military field responsible for the production of large originals. 3d printer compared to traditional
The technology to grow fat cells is still lacking--Schonfeld characterized the texture as like an animal protein cake--but that is the next step for the team.
Can they use this technology to make burgers from less common animals? Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins
but this is an amazing technology I think we can all appreciate. I'm excited for the day
and progress being an engineer myself and on occasion I too frown down emphatically on some frivolous tech like the'Glassified'new-age Ruler (http://www. popsci. com/technology/article/2013-08/must-be-best-ruler-ever-invented#comment-174161
) or the clearly bad math in a Popsci endorsed project with the unlikely name of Slingatron.
Now this is some great technology! Over 40%of our man made greenhouse methane comes from livestock for food.
what if this technology catches on and undercuts farm and ranch meat producing tens or hundreds of TONS a day from a single vat and some psycho or terrorist contaminates the vat with the Sheep Scrapie Mad cow disease Kuru or Croitzfeld-Jacobs Disease prion?
This technology might be okay for a Mars colony or a deep space voyage. Let's see:
old tech will always be far superior. And what is so glamorous about straight lines; nature does everything in Curves.@
Old tech will always be far superior. So Slide-rules are superior to calculators abacuses are superior to computers gas lamps to electric lighting and so on?
If a person becomes helpless without technology I am not sure I would say that the technology has made life better.
I am not saying that this gadget isn't neat. It is really cool. Hopefully it is consistently accurate.
I always worry that these gadgets will be hacked someday by a foreign nation intent on ruining our technology from the bottom up.
Our tech-dependent teens have no clue that they are being duped. Next thing you know a missile ends up hitting one of our allies rather than one of our adversaries.
We'll leave it to the engineers and specialists as we have many other skills throughout history.@
âÂ#Âoeold tech will always be superior. âÂ# for without these predecessors of your high-tech devices and the foundation of civilizations they created your modernist society will be none existent.
--but only when it applies for higher tasks at hand as for a major engineering construction civil works chem-engr'ng accounting and similar projects.
Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. Reading some of these comments it's clear that it's not enough that beavers sequester carbon raise the water table augment the density
but our future is in the hands of technology if we are to continue to grow
My point is that it's technology that has enabled us to multiply into this vast global populace.
And it will be technology that sustains us. Not beavers. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology...
aside from dams and environmental'landscaping'they also make great hats and jackets. On a side note of beavers beaver hat trivial...
or alien tech that simply relocates sun in a blink of a eye. While nature wont survive-humans will at least a portion of us.
More importantly that technology is not in widespread use and would not suddenly POP into widespread use
if the sun stops shining so the mere âÂ#Âoeexistenceã¢Â# of that technology would not be our salvation other than to be useful to some
what's physically impossible in a magazine that is intended to be based science with an engineering perspective.
While there is no technology that we are aware of which could turn off the heat and light from the sun in near-instantaneous fashion it's not hard to visualize something highly improbable yet entirely consistent with the laws of physics.
The technique involves taking genetically engineered pig embryos that are incapable of growing their own pancreases
earlier this week the Expert Panel on Bioethics of the Council for Science and Technology Policy Japan's federal science advisory board recommended the laws be changed to allow Nakauchi's work.
From the ground up of technology and the foundation of software NSA wants to have its fingers in the new technology to ease its snooping!!!
US Gov. DARPA did a little research a few years ago on a technique called Sodium Induction.
Michaud a 72-year-old grandfather and former Exxonmobil engineer has spent his golden years trying to manufacture tornadoes--tornadoes that he believes could eventually power the world.
He believes it's possible to collect 12 percent of that potential using his technology
and hopes to just get enough to prove the technology's worth to larger companies in the energy sector.
Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. Could the idea be tried out and measurements be taken on existing power station cooling towers?
http://www. popsci. com/technology/article/2013-05/iran-unveils-new-stealth-drone-isnt#comment-301696 LIKE A 1970 MARVEL TOY THERMIC JET PLANE MODEL!
U f o)))http://www. popsci. com/technology/article/2013-05/iran-unveils-new-stealth-drone-isnt#comment-301696 LIKE A 1970 MARVEL TOY THERMIC JET PLANE MODEL!
The Clean Air Act is a technology-forcing law; who knows what new patentable products might be developed engineered
The Clean Air Act is a technology-forcing law. You already vetoed a plan to build this thing
I'm an engineer. But I'm not putting forth new data. I'm looking at the data climatologists have and saying:
and individual consumers to call the shots rather than handing our lives over to a few smart people who claim they want to save us from ourselves. brian144i could spot a fellow engineer long before I got through your post.
and many other countries where they are utilizing technology decades out of date and 100 times more polluting.
And so can other scientists and engineers. I don't have to make up reasons to have software engineers exist.
however until technology catches up with fossil fuels it's prudent to scale back slowly and responsibly.
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