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Industrial Biotechnology - Enzyme Innovation - Genencor Our website uses cookies so that we can provide you a better online experience and service; by continuing, you agree to our use of cookies in line with our Privacy Statement Close DuPont Industrial Biosciences DuPont website Synthetic biology and the rise of the 'spider-goats' Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding, Sweetie and her five other siblings, exactly as you might imagine young goats do. Until I fend her off, she's very keen on chewing my trousers. To the casual observer, and to goatherds, she shows no signs that she is not a perfectly normal farmyard goat. But Freckles is a long way from normal.

Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint.[1] It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project.[2] The first official funding for the Project originated with the US Department of Energy’s Office of Health and Environmental Research, headed by Charles DeLisi, and was in the Reagan Administration’s 1987 budget submission to Congress.[3] It subsequently passed both Houses. The Project was planned for 15 years.[4] In 1990, the two major funding agencies, DOE and NIH, developed a memorandum of understanding in order to coordinate plans and set the clock for the initiation of the Project to 1990.[5] At that time, David Galas was Director of the renamed “Office of Biological and Environmental Research” in the U.S. Project[edit] History[edit]

The Living Factory: Designing and Manufacturing with Synthetic Biology Central Saint Martins, Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC) and InCrops are holding an evening of talks and discussion on the opportunities, risks and challenges associated with designing and manufacturing with synthetic biology horizon 2050. The word factory conjures up very specific images, but what if in future a factory resembled a greenhouse? Synthetic biology is an emerging science which allows us to reprogram living organisms with the purpose of generating custom-made materials.

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Weekend Diversion: Spider Webs… on drugs? “If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?” New Online Magazine Bridges the Divide Between Art and Science Detail of the cover of the October 2013 issue of SciArt in America, showing the “Observe” exhibition at Williamson Gallery in Pasadena (photograph by Steven A. Heller/Art Center College of Design) It’s no revelation that science and art have long been linked, the curiosity about the workings of the world aligned with artistic creativity. Recently, however, there seems to be more of a movement towards connecting the two worlds into a tighter community. One of these voices — a bimonthly online magazine called SciArt in America — launched in August and published their third issue in December. ”When I came to New York I was sure I would find a science-art community right away, but it was not that easy,” Julia Buntaine, editor-in-chief of the publication, told Hyperallergic. Discovering there wasn’t much of an online presence that focused specifically on the “SciArt” movement, she started something.

The Science and Politics of the GMO What exactly are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and why do scientists develop them? Studying the science of GMOs helps us understand biotechnology’s potential role in addressing challenges in agriculture. In this introductory Food and Nutrition course, you will learn the basics of genetic engineering, explore the political debate around the GMO and review the arguments for and against their use. We will study the politics surrounding the GMO and its impact at both an individual level and to society as a whole; including the problems, perceptions, benefits, and risks associated with GMOs.

With Emotion Recognition Algorithms, Computers Know What You’re Thinking Back when Google was first getting started, there were plenty of skeptics who didn’t think a list of links could ever turn a profit. That was before advertising came along and gave Google a way to pay its bills — and then some, as it turned out. Thanks in part to that fortuitous accident, in today’s Internet market, advertising isn’t just an also-ran with new technologies: Marketers are bending innovation to their needs as startups chase prospective revenue streams. A handful of companies are developing algorithms that can read the human emotions behind nuanced and fleeting facial expressions to maximize advertising and market research campaigns. Major corporations including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Unilever, Nokia and eBay have already used the services.

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Engineers Develop Tiny Swimming Bio-Bots Engineers developed the first tiny, synthetic machines that can swim by themselves, powered by beating heart cells. Image: Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Champaign, IL (Scicasts) – The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots.

Sustainability Science – A Key Concept for Future Design Sustainability is indispensable for the future of humankind. Sustainability science has emerged as an effort to tackle the complex problems the world is facing today. Lecturers from different disciplines provide a holistic overview of key issues in sustainability including industrial pollution, an aging society, human-nature connection, urban planning, resilience, environmental governance, and education for sustainable development.

Fisherman plucks bizarre shrimp-like creature from the water off New Zealand that's completely see-through Stewart Fraser was fishing 43 miles north off the Karikari PeninsulaHe plucked the bizarre creature from the water and took a photoIt has baffled Mr Fraser and all of his fisherman friendsBut aquarium tells MailOnline the creature is called a Salpa maggiore By Leon Watson Published: 13:00 GMT, 21 January 2014 | Updated: 10:25 GMT, 22 January 2014 A fisherman from New Zealand was left baffled when he caught this see-through shrimp-like creature swimming near the surface of the ocean.

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