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Darpa, Venter Launch Assembly Line For Genetic Engineering
wired.com 5 days, 14 hours agoThe military-industrial complex just got a little bit livelier. Quite literally. That's because Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research arm, has kicked off a program designed to take the conventions of manufacturing and apply them to living cells. Think of it like an assembly line, but one that would churn out modified biological matter -- man-made organisms -- instead of cars or computer parts.
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Amoeba-Through-Zebra Innovation
forbes.com 6 days, 23 hours agoFrom the first stirrings of life on this planet, nature has had the role of premier innovator and inventor. How might we benefit from tapping nature's power of design? Author, biologist and innovator Janine Benyus is founder of the Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to helping bring the solutions of biology to the challenges of ...










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