Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap work,… Read the rest “Antimicrobial soap might be killing you.”
Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat:
… Read the rest ““Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins””Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the body.
The proteins in
OK, maybe “spilling” is a little imprecise, but Scientific American has the details on how to use a blood plasma extract to clean E. coli out of drinking water:
… Read the rest “Clean up E. coli by spilling some human proteins on it.”The elegant method,
Science Daily has the skinny on how we might wind up using fast-growing, high-density tobacco to save the planet from global warming – by creating bioethanol:
… Read the rest “Tobacco will save us all.”In the course of the
New Scientist examines the biochemical roots of the emotion we call “love” – and the chemicals we could take to reverse the symptoms:
… Read the rest “A cure for love.”…[E]thics aside, what could
Nature‘s sharing a recipe to make your own stem cells from scratch – by reprogramming ordinary cells in an acid bath:
… Read the rest “Let’s bake up some stem cells!”In 2006, Japanese researchers reported1 a technique for
Energy Post calls it “the BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH EVER!” That seems a bit much, but it is interesting that a Boeing-sponsored group in Abu Dhabi has figured out how to make super-clean,… Read the rest “Boeing announces (with much hype) new way to turn deserts into biofuel farms.”
AP (via Yahoo!) has the first reactions to meat grown in a petri dish rather than on a farm:
… Read the rest “Lab-grown meat: first taste “feels like a conventional hamburger””Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday
Reddit’s just had a Q&A with the CEO of a company dedicated to 3D printing edible meat:
… Read the rest ““Human meat is not on the menu. Sorry.””At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint meat and leather. In fact,
Laboratory Equipment goes all comic book superhero with a medical story on researchers taking the power of regeneration from tadpole tails:
… Read the rest “Tadpole tails are strong medicine”For several years Prof. Enrique Amaya and his
Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn… Read the rest “The weed that can feed the world.”
Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone:
… Read the rest “Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.”“Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine:
… Read the rest “Titan is making DNA. Or could be.”Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid water. But the orange
That’s the tempting pitch made by a team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado, who’ve come up with a way to block opioid addiction in the brain:
… Read the rest “Heroin: now with all the pain relief, and none of the addiction.”Laboratory
Scientists have come one step closer to creating artificial life by building a cell membrane from scratch:
… Read the rest “Building cells from the outside in.”“We don’t understand this really fundamental step in our existence, which is
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