4. April 2011 by admin.

As well as being a great textile and biofuel, Marijuana was championed this week by government researchers as being effective at arresting and reversing Cancers.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional/page1

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3. June 2010 by admin.

Here’s a series of pre-conference podcasts with a number of specialists in the field of synthetic biology.

Speakers include J. Craig Venter, Drew Endy, Jay Kiesling, Ron Weiss and more. Definitely worthwhile background discussions.

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2. June 2010 by admin.

More press on the synthetic genomes…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZ-GjSaqgo

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24. May 2010 by admin.

New BioFuel Cell Uses Glucose in the Body to Produce Electricity for Cyborgs

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13. May 2010 by admin.

I was looking for some introductory information into the use of microbial self-assembly and found this reference text on google books. It would be great if one of the faculty/mentors could order one for review.
Microbial bionanotechnology: biological self-assembly systems and biopolymer …
By Bernd Rehm

Chapter 5 addresses the biomineralization of magnetite in Magnetosomes - the cell structure that grows these inorganic structures. It begins on page 107.

In it we find that Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, is a preferred organism for cultivation. Here’s another pdf on magnetotactic bacterium.

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13. May 2010 by admin.

Nanotube transistor will help us bond with machines

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13. May 2010 by admin.

This short article references initial work using yeast to generate an electric current from the bloodstream.

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20. April 2010 by admin.

Just finished watching a very cool vid on Biofuels from UC… Seems like a decent primer on the subject.

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8. April 2010 by admin.

ABC covers Algae Biofuel  Reactors

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23. March 2010 by admin.

Scientific America Highlights SynBio in this April 2010 Article, which reviews Keasling’s experiments that use E. Coli to transform biomass into Diesel.

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