Life, reinvented
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Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are aiming to create synthetic biology, which deals with specifying every bit of DNA that goes into an organism to determine its form and function in a controlled, predictable way. The practitioners of synthetic biology hope to create bacteria able to mass-produce drugs that are harvested from rare plants.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2005
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Attack of the stuntbots
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The next generation of Hollywood daredevils would never say die. The companies employ neural networks and artificial evolution to produce self-animating software robots that walk and run and fly with startling verisimilitude.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2004
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Tales from the crypt: how a handful of Mormons with an infrared camera unlocked the secrets buried beneath Vesuvius
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Digital technologies and innovative imaging techniques are being used to help decipher carbonized scrolls, buried when an eruption of Mount Vesuvius engulfed the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2003
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