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biotechnology

Technology

Watch a robot with living muscles walk through water

A tiny, biohybrid robot moves by contracting lab-grown muscle tissue in its legs – but it needs help to stand up in a water tank and it tops out at just 5.4 millimetres per minute

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Life

Does the birth of a cloned monkey mean we could now clone people?

Analysis

Life

Yeast has half its DNA rewritten in quest for synthetic complex cells

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Life

Egg sex screening aims to stop slaughter of billions of male chicks

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Yeast - Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Technology

Gene-edited yeasts transform bread and give rice wine a banana taste

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The Lego robot

Technology

Lego robot used to make DNA structures for tiny machines more quickly

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Health

Heart chambers 3D printed from live human cells can beat for months

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Genetically engineered gut bacterium could protect bees from parasite

Environment

Genetically engineered gut bacterium could protect bees from parasite

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Pneumatic computer uses pressure instead of electricity

Technology

Pneumatic computer uses pressure instead of electricity

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Life

Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neanderthal tooth gunk

Researchers pieced together the genomes of two unknown species of green sulphur bacteria from DNA fragments found in ancient calcified tooth plaque

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Health

Pill that zaps stomach cells could treat nausea and lack of appetite

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Comment

Buying Time review: Podcast explores an attempt to 'cure' ageing

Culture

Technology

Synthetic spider silk laced with graphene can heal itself when wet

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Technology

AI-designed protein shells could make vaccines more effective

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