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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
Category: cyborg
Beautiful video imagining the future of augmented, prosthetic sight, by Superflux for the Human+ exhibition: Song of the Machine from Superflux on Vimeo. You can read more about the science behind retinal prosthetics in a great article in the Guardian...
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Category: cyborg
A lot of synthetic biology is about getting biology to be more like electrical engineering, designing genetic "logic gates" to create a living circuit board. Beyond analogies, however, cells have many fascinating electrical properties--proteins that transfer electrons like wires, membranes...
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Category: bacteria
Check out this awesome video of a computer-controlled swarm of magnetic bacteria building a pyramid out of tiny bricks!!! From IEEE Spectrum, via It Takes 30, the always fascinating blog from Harvard Systems Biology, the department my lab is in!...
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Category: cyborg
Synthetic biology deliberately equates genetic networks to electronic circuits, cells to machines, organisms to factories. In synthetic biology, every living can be thought of as a cyborg, a living machine that can be manipulated, changed to meet our needs, parts...
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