Women in Science Video Project: Synthetic Biology Research
The Girl Scouts of America made this short video about synthetic biology development engineer Elysse Grossi-Soyster as part of a series on female scientists and engineers.
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HGH and IGF–Promise and Danger
In the 1980s, Growth Hormone was explored by athletes to build muscles and by aging men to…build muscles. GH made them feel younger, revived energy and sex drive and even cognitive performance. Then the other shoe dropped: Animals without the GH receptor lived longer, while animals with extra copies of the GH gene die early.
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DIY Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech Economies
1. INTRODUCTION Most articles on garage biology and do-it-yourself (DIY) biology – whether academic papers or media reports – highlight its somewhat “immaterial” cultures or ideologies. The issues usually raised include: the ways in which do-it-yourself biology potentially democratizes science and fosters a citizen science (Wolinsky, 2009), that its practitioners are a “creative proof of the hacke...
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Hacking the body: the scientific counter-culture of the DIYbio movement
Science and biology are slowly, but smoothly, being co-opted by a DIY approach that’s looking an awful lot like the start of the tech start-up boom.
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Intelligence Inheritance – three genes that add to your IQ score
Three genetic variants in humans that can account for a couple of IQ points
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Video Friday: Ron Shigeta Chief Science Officer at IndieBio
Ron Shigeta is the Chief Science Officer at IndieBio, a seed stage Biotechnology Accelerator in San Francisco.
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Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but how secure are all their data?
Even the most physically secure research lab could be the site of a devastating data security breach.
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What are Biologics and Biosimilars?
Biologics are medicines that are made using certain types of cells to produce the right kind of protein.
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Video Friday: Beyond Parabiosis: Defined Approaches to Tissue Rejuvenation presented by Dr. Irina Conboy
Irina Conboy, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA,
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It Is Time to Classify Biological Aging As A Disease
We believe that aging should be seen as a disease, albeit as a disease that is a universal and multisystemic process.
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