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Astronomy C12 - 2014-11-18: The Nature of Biology on Earth: DNA, Origins, Astronomy C12, 001 - Fall 2014 The Planets - Geoffrey W. Marcy All Rights Reserved. By: UCBerkeley … Continue reading →

(PRWEB) November 20, 2014 The report, "Synthetic Biology Market by Tool (XNA, Chassis, Oligos, Enzymes, Cloning kits), Technology (Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology, Gene Synthesis, Cloning & Sequencing), Application (Biofuels, Pharmaceuticals, Biomaterials, Bioremediation) - Global Forecast to 2018", analyses and studies the major market drivers, threats, opportunities, and challenges. Browse 99 market data tables and 46 figures spread through 185 pages and in-depth TOC of the global synthetic biology market. http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/synthetic-biology-market-889.html Early buyers will receive 10% customization on this report. This report studies the global synthetic biology market for the forecast period of 2013 to 2018. This market is expected to reach $5,630.4 million by 2018 from $1,923.1 million in 2013, growing at a CAGR of 24% during the forecast period. The global synthetic biology market is segmented on the basis of tools, technologies, applications, and geographies. On the basis of tools, the synthetic biology market is categorized into Xeno-nucleic acids, chassis organisms, oligonucleotides, enzymes, and cloning and assembly kits. The oligonucleotides segment accounted for a major share of the synthetic biology market, by tool, in 2013. Further Inquiry @ http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Enquiry_Before_Buying.asp?id=889 On the basis of technologies, the synthetic biology market is segmented into enabled and enabling technologies. Enabling technologies accounted for a major … Continue reading →

Apps and smartphones may captivate consumers and investors at the moment, but the future of technology will be much more dizzyingly weird. Chances are, the most radical innovations in the 21st century wont be built on silicon but on DNA. Over the past few years, the ease of crafting genes from scratch has gone way up, while the cost has gone way down. But while the curve of biologys version of Moores law bends upward, major obstacles remain to the kind of startup explosion ignited in personal computing by better, cheaper digital technology. And the difference comes down to this: everything in Steve Jobs garage was basically dry. Unlike other kinds of engineering, the essential materials of biotech are both wet and alive. And this makes working with them much more complicated than pulling out a laptop or a soldering iron. An effort is under way, however, to make working with wet stuff easier in the hope of putting biology on more equal footing with less viscous technologies. And one of the tools that has biohackers buzzing at the moment is the OpenTrons, an open-source liquid-handling robot designed to make biotech not just drier and faster but also a lot … Continue reading →

A group of international researchers has just discovered the keys to explaining why certain processes and systems in mice, like the immune system, metabolism and stress response, are so different to those in humans. The scientists have detailed the functional parts of the mouse genome and have compared them with those in humans. A whole set of data has come out of this -- which is now to available to the scientific community -- which will be significant for research into mammalian biology as well as the study of human illness mechanisms. The comparison focuses on the genetic and biochemical processes regulating genome activity in humans and mice. The scientists have found that, in general, the systems for controlling genome activity in the two species are very alike, and have been preserved through time. However, they have also detected certain differences in the DNA, and patterns of gene expression that are not shared. "Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect human biology, allows us to approach the study of human illnesses in a better way," affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular … Continue reading →