Tag: YEAST

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. In 1855, ...

In the early '80s, amber was all the rage with scientists, who realized that the hardened tree sap could contain specimens and creatures with perfectly intact DNA. Extract the sample, clone the DNA. This was the premise that inspired Michael Crichton to write 'Jurassic Park.' Unfortunately, the cloning part was (and still is) a long way into the future, and the notion died. Partially died, that ...

Researchers at Aberystwyth University in Wales have developed a robot that is being heralded as the first machine to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of a human operator. Named Adam, the device has already identified the role of several genes in yeast cells, and has the ability to plan further experiments to test its own hypotheses. Ross King, from the university's computer ...