Biology

Technology expert Amy Webb on DNA as a security risk

“The Genesis Machine – Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology” is the title of the book that technology expert Amy Webb and microbiologist Andrew Hessel published in February this year. Webb’s professional career actually began as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. In 2006, she founded the Future Today …

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Grown materials: How researchers want to make bridges out of bacteria

Grown materials: How researchers want to make bridges out of bacteria “First we have to get the cells to arrange themselves in two and three dimensions.” Lightweight structures for medicine After all, a tree doesn’t grow in a few hours Research on microbiologically based materials Read the article in MIT Technology Review 4/2022 “Look at …

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Biology: Traces of 400 species of insects found in tea

Researchers at the University of Trier have developed a method for extracting and evaluating insect genetic material from dried plants. “We tested commercially available teas and herbs and found DNA from up to 400 different insect species in a single tea bag,” said Junior Professor Henrik Krehenwinkel. When a bee flies to a flower to …

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Biology: Mites live and die in the pores of the face

The little creatures live so isolated and incestuous on their faces that they “approach permanent existence with humans”. A study by an international research team with the participation of the University of Vienna was published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. Due to their very special way of life in human facial skin, microscopically …

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Research Coordinator (m / f / d) Max Planck Society

Job offer from 23.06.2022 The following full-time post should be filled as soon as possible at the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen: Research coordinator (m / f / d). Our institute explores fundamental issues of modern biology at several organizational levels of living things. More information about our research can be found on …

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DAX and Co with “gum on the shoe” – Evotec, Teamviewer and Zalando in focus

Go then! At the end of another turbulent week, strong US stock markets gave the DAX a boost. In the US, for example, new home sales have surged after the recent downturn, somewhat lifting investor sentiment. But a look at individual stocks shows that the situation remains very volatile. After the latest jump, Germany’s leading …

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Abortion law in the US: women are no longer victims – certainly not victims of their biology

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Erfurt: Students should divide the organic test according to racial characteristics – scandal | miscellany

class work Race theory: Erfurt students should categorize people 27.06.2022, 17:40 | Reading time: 4 minutes How could the word “race” disappear from the Basic Law How could the word “race” disappear from the Basic Law The word “race” should be removed from Article 3. The Greens initiated the discussion, now the FDP has proposed …

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Traffic light introduces law: Anyone can change gender every year – internal politics

The federal government wants to undermine biology with a historic law: From mid-2023, every citizen over the age of 14 should be able to change their gender and name at the registry office! Justice Minister Marko Bušman (44, FDP) and Family Minister Lisa Paus (53, Greens) presented the cornerstone of the new law on self-determination …

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