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Microbes in Space: Bioengineered Bugs Could Help Colonize New Planets – Singularity Hub

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2018-05-29 NEWS

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Microbes in Space: Bioengineered Bugs Could Help Colonize New Planets
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But the emerging field of synthetic biology holds the promise of greatly expanding the things microbes can do for us. Advances in gene editing technology are allowing scientist to re–engineer microbes’ genomes to carry out entirely novel functions like …

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‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells approved to mend human hearts for the first time
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Scientists in Japan now have permission to treat people who have heart disease with cells produced by a revolutionary reprogramming technique. The study is only the second clinical application of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. These are created