Biotechnology

Frank Whittemore on May 15th, 2013

Advanced genetic engineering is already changing vaccine development and could make inroads into other branches of medicine… Click here to read this report located on MIT’s Technology Review website. Click here to learn more about synthetic biology.

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Frank Whittemore on May 1st, 2013

Click here for this CNN report. Click here to learn more about Ramez Naam and his writings.

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Frank Whittemore on April 20th, 2013

Click here to access the report located on the Wired website. Click here to learn more about bioengineering. Click here to learn more about open source.

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Click here to view the predictions located on the Wired website.

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Frank Whittemore on March 21st, 2013

Something else you should know about… Click here to access a report located on the Science Daily website. Click here to learn more about your microbiome.

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Frank Whittemore on March 17th, 2013

Click here to view the article. Click here to access a recent Wall Street Journal article on this subject. Click here to learn more about this fast moving subject. What follows is a quote from The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change” by Al Gore — “Nations are competitive too. China’s Beijing Genomic Institute(BGI) has [...]

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Frank Whittemore on February 9th, 2013

Don’t take my word for it. Check out the many reviews of this book. Click here to do so. Book Description – Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom-produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependency. Building [...]

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Physicist Stephen Hawking believes that we have entered a new phase of evolution… Click here to read the complete report.

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Daniel Anderson and colleagues explain that development of nanoscale production units for protein-based drugs in the human body may provide a new approach for treating disease… Click here to read the complete report found on the Phys.Org website. Click here to learn more about future medicines. Click here to learn more about Nanotechnology per Wikipedia. [...]

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Frank Whittemore on June 16th, 2012

The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is a United States National Institutes of Health initiative with the goal of identifying and characterizing the microorganisms which are found in association with both healthy and diseased humans. For years, bacteria have had a bad name. They are the cause of infections, of diseases. They are something to be [...]

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