December 2010
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The BioBricks Foundation →
Creating and distributing the modules of life.
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Leaving Mozilla, Starting Massive Health « Aza on... →
Anyone that’s been sick, overweight, or had to deal with a doctor knows that health is a field in dire need of humane design.
Mozilla’s creative director on his new startup, Massive Health.
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“What’s really interesting is that this locksmith was penalized for getting...”
– Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Locksmiths «
“In 2006, a team of Endy’s undergraduate students used BioBrick parts to...”
– Synthetic biology and evolution : The New Yorker
“Many a technology has at some time or another been deemed an affront to God, but...”
– Synthetic biology and evolution : The New Yorker
“It is only a matter of time before domesticated biotechnology presents us with...”
Synthetic biology and evolution : The New Yorker →
A team from Pennsylvania State University, working with hair samples from two woolly mammoths—one of them sixty thousand years old and the other eighteen thousand—has tentatively figured out how to modify that DNA and place it inside an elephant’s egg. The mammoth could then be brought to term in an elephant mother. “There is little doubt that it would be fun to see a living, breathing woolly...
““Sound design is what wakes me up in the mornings,” said Mr....”
“To listen to enough Radiolab is to see that scientists haven’t simply...”