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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
June 01, 2019

Scientists devised a microscopic “submarine” that could ply the deepest interiors of the human body, delivering drugs to the exact places they’re needed, while engineers built a prototype of an “air taxi” powered by hydrogen fuel cells, and astronauts on board the International Space Station studied the effect of cosmic radiation on DNA. We’re way past planes, trains, and automobiles in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
May 05, 2019

A new kind of immunotherapy could be effective against colorectal cancer, 3D-printed digital microscopes could diagnose disease anywhere in the world, and 3D-printed living tissue could help treat disease way out of this world — even on Mars. Astronauts could also bioprint their own meat. Hungry for more of this week’s coolest scientific news? We’ve got a veritable bio-buffet.

 

Turning The Immune System Against Colorectal Cancer

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
April 26, 2019

Scientists found a way to translate brain signals into “synthetic speech,” doctors can detect ovarian tumors the size of a poppy seed, and researchers using one of the world’s fastest computers modeled a DNA sequence of more than a billion atoms. Oh, and FYI: the U.S. Navy received a patent for technology that seems fit for powering a UFO, or something that certainly looks like one. All that and more in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries!

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
January 23, 2019

Tiny robots will repair Britain's sewer system, an algorithm helps digital cameras see around corners and a controversial gene therapy technique could change the game for infertile people. All that and more in this week's coolest scientific advances.

 

Three Genetic Parents And A Baby

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 25, 2018
"Scientists at Carnegie Mellon built a self-healing skin whose applications could include bio-inspired robots, their colleagues at UCLA found a way to 3D-print muscles and connective tissue, and a team in Norway came up with “evolutionary algorithms” that enabled a robot to teach itself to walk. This week’s science roundup sounds a little like a script for a prequel to a Hollywood blockbuster. Can you name it?
 

 

Smart Skin
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genetics

Forensic Files: GE's "CSI" Team On The Case To Enable Trace DNA Analysis

Todd Alhart
May 18, 2018
Located deep within GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, the lab looks like a set for a “CSI” episode. Inside, four scientists — a photochemist, two molecular biologists and a biochemist — are hard at work to supercharge one of the most important tools used by detectives all around the world: analyzing trace DNA found at crime scenes.
You know the drill from TV. Forensics experts scour a crime scene, using cotton swabs resembling Q-tips to collect forensic samples left by criminals on doorknobs, table surfaces and other areas.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 15, 2017
Researchers in Philadelphia figured out why eating fewer calories can lead to longer lives, scientists in Shanghai built a tiny power plant that uses blood flow to generate electricity inside the body, and a team in Seattle set a record by transmitting information across 1.7 miles with “almost zero power.” We roger that, science.
 

Staying Alive
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 08, 2017
This week we learned about a pen-like device that can detect cancer in seconds, a smartphone app that can spot concussion in a flash, and a machine learning system that can guess the shape of your face from DNA data. We detect a theme here.
 

Decoding Cancer In Seconds

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The Weekend Edition

Beyond Just Promise, CRISPR Is Delivering In The Lab Today

Ian Haydon
May 21, 2017
There’s a revolution happening in biology, and its name is CRISPR.
CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is a powerful technique for editing DNA. It has received an enormous amount of attention in the scientific and popular press, largely based on the promise of what this powerful gene editing technology will someday do.
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Genomics

Crowdsourcing CRISPR: It’s Time For The Public To Chime In About Genome Editing

Megan Hochstrasser Innovative Genomics Institute
April 26, 2017

Manipulating our genetic code with CRISPR may be a controversial topic, but it offers scientists the chance to work with the public to shape the ethical future of this technology, writes Megan Hochstrasser of the Innovative Genomics Institute.

 

 

 
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