By Dr. Franziska Oeschger What are the hopes and fears connected to synthetic biology? Who should decide how this technology will be…
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From the community Young Swiss scientists take a position on synthetic biology by Dr. Franziska Oeschger
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From the community From the Community: DNA hard drives? | Jake Beal’s Next Step
by Steven Burgess In 2013, 5 exabytes of content were created each day, that is 5 x 10^18, or five quintillion bytes or 1000000000000000000B! – every…
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From the community From the Community: Three Questions I get Asked | @AndyBalmer blog
by Steven Burgess Ultimately scientists wish to make an impact on the world, be that discover fundamental information about how the world works…
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From the community From the community: Fast-Tracked Photosynthesis
Legume laboratory discusses a recent effort to introduce an algal carbon concentration mechanism into higher plants for improved photosynthetic efficiency. Source: Fast-Tracked…
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From the community From the Community: Feeding the Bottom Billion with Biotech by Ryan Bethencourt
by Ryan Bethencourt This post isn’t about aid to the poorest countries on this planet, or how we can more effectively distribute…
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From the community What we talk about when we talk about genetic modification by Erin Zess
The big conversation is coming. With rapid developments in gene editing technology we are beginning to see the first gene edited products come…
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From the community From the community: What Syn3.0 may mean for agriculture
Syn3.0, the minimal free-living organism with a 531 kb, 473-gene synthetic genome, recently designed and built at the J. Craig Venter Institute, inspired significant excitement…
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Fossil Friday Roundup New Features coming to the PLOS Paleo Community!
It’s been over eight months since we’ve begun the PLOS Paleo Community website in its current form, with Jon, Andy, and me…
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From the community From the Community: Statistics – When Confounding Variables Are Out of Control, Neuroskeptic on a PLOS ONE paper
[This post originally appeared on Neuroskeptic blog on April 2, 2016] Does ice cream cause drownings? Let’s think about this statistically. Consider…
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Basic Neuroscience From the Community: Everybody Loves Dopamine by The Neurocritic
This post was originally posted on The Neurocritic Blog on March 27, 2016 Dopamine is love. Dopamine is reward. Dopamine is addiction.Neuroscientists…