In a case of technology meets biology, scientists in labs across the country are experimenting with synthetic DNA as a storage medium, most notably Microsoft and the University of Washington. Engineers have successfully been pushing more storage into smaller spaces for decades, but that can’t go on forever.
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Uber’s CEO would like you to re-download the company’s app, please.
Today, Uber showed it’s paying attention to its customers with CEO Travis Kalanick’s announcement that he’s stepping down from Trump’s business advisory council. Anger over a perceived effort to capitalize on a taxi strike at JFK airport in protest of Trump’s executive order on immigration kicked off the #DeleteUber movement.
Employers reveal the things interviewees shouldn’t say
Ashley Judd and Madonna go low at women’s march: Singer says she wants to BLOW UP the White House in F-word-filled speech as actress says ‘Hitler’ Trump has ‘wet dreams’ about Ivanka Too big to march! Half a MILLION people take to the streets of DC and thousands more protest in Boston, Chicago and LA with leaving crowds unable to MOVE ‘It looked like a million and a half people were watching my speech’: Trump goes to war with his own National Park Service after it claims just 250,000 witnessed his inauguration ‘We have been restrained.
Scaffoldless tissue engineering benefits from combined approach
While great progress has been made in tissue engineering, reproducing complex physiologically relevant structures remains a challenge. Researchers in the US and South Korea have now combined a technique for cuing tissue growth using a thermoresponsive substrate combined with the use of magnetic nanoparticles so that the grown structure can be readily levitated and manipulated.
Stem cells could one day replace the work of dental fillings, study shows
The stem cells in our teeth can be energized to fill in chips, cracks, and cavities, researchers say, and the findings could one day make dental cement obsolete. The work has been conducted just in mice so far, but the research , published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports , highlights a way to motivate stem cells to repair tooth defects at a scale they normally can’t, with a drug that already has some safety testing behind it.