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8 articles on Med-Tech

• GeekDad Giveaway: DNA Portraits from DNA 11
  DNA 11, the company that brought DNA Art to the masses, is going back in history for its latest art from life masterpiece ¿ the DNA Ancestry Portrait. DNA Ancestry Portraits combine the science of genealogy with the technology of the mobile and social web to create a new form of augmented art. They begin with a ...
  07.25.11

• Pentagon's New Factory: Your DNA
  Darpa is sick and tired of waiting around for Mother Nature. Instead, it wants to take the life-making business into its own hands -- and manufacture new biological forms in a factory of mix-and-match bio-bits. A recent call for research by the Pentagon's mad science agency proposes a new program called "Living Foundries." The idea is ...
  06.10.11

• Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Square Roots
  By John Timmer, Ars Technica Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems have been relatively small-scale, with only a handful of gates linked up in a series. Today's issue of ...
  06.03.11

• Mr. Know-It-All: iPad Larceny, DNA Specimens, Trade Show Babes
  Sure, you're more likely to be mugged if you're holding an iThing than a doughnut. But go ahead and — with some caution — use it on the bus.
  05.31.11

• Giant Skull Is Made of Thin Slices of Brain
  An artist named Noah Scalin has built a giant skull made out of slices of brain encased in acrylic. What do you mean, "Why?" Scalin shot to fame a few years back when he created a blog that chronicled his creation of a skull every single day of a year. Since then he's kept up his ...
  09.01.10