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Soccer's world governing body FIFA recently announced they would introduce biological profiles and test players more regularly in a bid to stamp out cheating.
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Understand: He is not talking about growing a biological person in a test-tube and requiring him to be Dad.
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Full shares his hypothesis with engineers who test the biological principles on their robots, they are often able to offer biologists new insights into the ways in which animals move, resulting in advancements not only for the field of robotics but for biology, too.
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Transforming biology into an engineering practice, decoupling design from fabrication and speeding the biological design, build, test cycle is how DARPA proposes to tackle this problem.
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DNA, though, offers a key advantage over the other nature-inspired methods: Since DNA isn't a living thing, it can sit passively in a test tube where it is less subject to biological changes.
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Biological profiles are built up by collating an athlete's drug test results over time, therefore making it easier to detect differences which could indicate the use of a banned substance.
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