© NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS (detail) Perseverance Drills Mars | The Mars rover is doing some digging on the red planet: Perseverance has already collected six rock samples. During its mission, the rover will collect multiple samples and deposit them on the planet’s surface. The sample containers would then be collected by another rover and returned to Earth …
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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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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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