The basic assumption about the origin of mutations, and thus evolution, could be wrong. New mutations in the genome are likely not randomly distributed, a team led by J. Gray Monroe and Detlef Weigel of the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen reports in Nature. Overview of recent changes in the thale cress genome …
When the Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago, it was still uninhabited. Only with time did the first life forms emerge from the so-called primordial soup – a mixture of water and randomly distributed atoms and molecules. However, it is not yet clear how exactly this process took place. In an interview with …
Synthetic biology could become a key technology of the 21st century. Because scientists around the world no longer observe only biological systems, they directly manipulate them using engineering methods. In doing so, they change the code of life and in a way rewrite it. With such an elementary shift, it is clear that researchers are …
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“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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Bismuth DNA – this is the language used to define Auer football in the Ore Mountains. Coaches try to use this term as something that is taken for granted. Players try. For the club boss, that means life. Bismuth DNA. Aue DNA. What is it, actually? Does it really exist? Timo Rost (43) has already …
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