Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine
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Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in Fresno, California
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A fact-checked debate about euthanasia
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Folks in the biotech industry, what do you do and what is it like?
I've been doing a postdoc in molecular biology in academia for a little while now, and getting ready to take next step. I'm looking into industry careers, but it's difficult to know what they...
I've been doing a postdoc in molecular biology in academia for a little while now, and getting ready to take next step. I'm looking into industry careers, but it's difficult to know what they entail since we don't often get exposed to them.
If you or someone you know works in biotech, I'd love to hear about it.
How did you get into it? What do you enjoy or not enjoy? Where do you see the industry heading? What are some of the positions like?
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We made a meat-leaf to demonstration of the cutting edge of regenerative medicine, and bioengineering. And maybe as the first stop on the road to meat-robots.
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Pacemakers, other implants, made of jelly
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Scientists develop new birth control for female cats—no surgery necessary
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Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not
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How is AI impacting science?
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MIT’s vaccine printer: The game-changer in vaccine distribution
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One-hour operation could cure prostate cancer by destroying tumours with electric currents
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
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How do fireflies flash in sync? Studies suggest a new answer.
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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How mushrooms are turned into bacon and styrofoam | World Wide Waste
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‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
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Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
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A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
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For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.
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Henrietta Lacks estate sues company using her ‘stolen’ cells
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Why biofuels are terrible
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US controls on ‘gain of function’ pathogen research have been undercut
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Don’t farm bugs
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AlphaFold DB provides open access to protein structure predictions for the human proteome and twenty other key organisms to accelerate scientific research
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Sweden to increase airport fees for high-polluting planes – climate impact, such as use of biofuels, to be taken into account when calculating charges
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First patients to get CRISPR gene-editing treatment continue to thrive
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Smartwatches monitor your health: An overview of what you get for the money
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Gene therapy, absolutely and for real
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What is gasoline?
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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Euronews travelled to Iceland to see how researchers are hunting down viruses – and exploring their potential uses as part of a project called Virus-X
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Smartphone cameras can now detect diabetes with 80% accuracy
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Scientists are 3D printing miniature human organs to test coronavirus drugs
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KFC will test lab-grown chicken nuggets made with a 3D bioprinter this fall in Russia
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In the context of healthcare, "lives saved” is the wrong measure
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Study finds hydroxychloroquine may have boosted survival, but other researchers have doubts
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A year on, first patient to get gene editing for sickle cell disease is thriving
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing.
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CRISPR gene editing may help scale up coronavirus testing
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Biotechs are battling to make the first good blood test for Covid-19
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
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Oil’s plunge is an existential threat to a far cleaner biofuel
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Hacking diabetes - A network of amateur programmers is transforming the illness with a DIY app
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Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth
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A pro-Trump blog doxed a Chinese scientist it falsely accused of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon
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