Sentences with phrase «create synthetic forms»

Researchers have created a synthetic form of cephalopod skin that can transform from a flat, 2D surface to a three - dimensional one with bumps and pits, they report today (Oct. 12) in the journal Science.

Researchers have created a synthetic form of octopus skin that can transform from a flat, 2D surface to a three - dimensional one with bumps and pits

Not exact matches

With some building blocks of life being found in clouds of gas and dust in space, complicated molecules, and the results of Dr. Venter creating a life form using a synthetic DNA code, science is coming to the conclusion that no god is required to start life.

Waterproofing usually utilizes some form of synthetic backing, which eliminates breathability and increases overheating, creating a breeding ground for bacteria.

If a woman's labor is not progressing fast enough per hospital policy, then they create intense contractions using synthetic forms of oxytocin.

A growing cadre of do - it - yourself (DIY) biologists have taken to closets, kitchens, basements, and other offbeat lab spaces to tinker with genomes, create synthetic life - forms, or — like Rienhoff — seek out elusive cures.

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

Do - it - yourself biologists are hunting down genetic disorders and creating synthetic life - forms in garages, closets, and backyards around the world.

Transplant it into an emptied cell to create the world's first synthetic life form — check.

Synthetic life is well within our capabilities — but creating a free - living, independently evolving life form also comes with huge risks

Scientists today announced that they have crafted a bacterial genome from scratch, moving one step closer to creating entirely synthetic life forms — living cells designed and built by humans to carry out a diverse set of tasks ranging from manufacturing biofuels to sequestering carbon dioxide.

«Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California have created the first synthetic life forms, constructed with the goal of passing on an extended genetic code to succeeding generations.»

This new synthetic life form created with the modified genome is unique and can not be compared to other natural life forms.

The word «synthetic» is used, because researchers create novel life forms.

The central goal of synthetic biology is to create new life forms and functions1, and the most general route to this goal is the creation of semi-synthetic organisms whose DNA harbours two additional letters that form a third, unnatural base pair.

German artist Gerhard Richter has created Strontium, a large - scale mural for the new de Young derived from digitally - manipulated photographs, that together form a geometric black and white motif representing the atomic structure of strontium titanate, a synthetic substance often used to create artificial diamonds.

Thus, creating a landscape that seems to emerge from another world — a synthetic, supernatural, and disruptively unreal sphere — the installation offers a vision of a contemporary form of vanitas.

She borrows heavily from the natural world, creating strange landscapes with familiar, yet surreal organic forms, merging the natural and the synthetic.

His sculptures — geometric wall objects, façade - like reliefs, objects and sculptures created from abstract stereometric bodies which take the form of cubes, angles, columns, pedestals, podiums, movable walls and shelving — are made of cheap no - frills materials such as particle board, cardboard, linen, molton, Styrofoam, synthetic resin, emulsion paint, fluorescent tubes and other everyday building materials.

Singh uses clay, copper wire, and paint, as well as living matter such as soil, plants, and mushrooms to create miniature forms that seem to grow from crevices and nail holes in the gallery walls, blurring the distinction between organic and synthetic.

Deshayes works with glossy, synthetic materials (such as anodised aluminium and vacuum - formed plastic) to create skins, bulges and organic forms with both liquid and solid properties.

He has appropriated elements from ornamented exterior forms and carved stone figures to create new synthetic sculptures.

One of the most interesting questions before us — and the subject of an international meeting next year at Cambridge University — has to do with the potential of synthetic biology to contribute to a more sustainable world through human - created or human - enhanced forms of life.

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

Virtual reality can be defined as a simulated experience formed by a synthetic computer - based environment, able to create the sensation of undergoing real experiences.