Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
The results of this international small-game hunt have just been published in Public Library of Science Biology.
The courses span a spectrum of topics: physics, biology, computer science, engineering, medicine, literature, sociology, poetry, business and many more.
Attempting to turn the tables on the Tory spokesman, Mr Balls said he had checked the GCSE additional science biology paper.
With the addition of the 3D printers, the school's geological minds are now rubbing elbows with people from fields such as biology, computer science and even art.
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Some are building software that can be applied to solving critical problems drug discovery, genomics, computer science and biology.
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The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove will mean that computing will count as a science in the English Baccalaureate for secondary school league tables from January 2014 - alongside physics, chemistry, biology and pupils taking double science.
But given time, nanotechnology may yet demonstrate that it has more to offer biology than the stuff of science fiction.
So we're thinking chemistry, biology, physics, earth science, applied science.
Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches has been keeping up on attempts by creationists affiliated with the Lousiana Family Forum (LFF) to interfere with the inclusion of evolutionary biology in public high school science textbooks.
Now a group of researchers led by Lee Sang-yup of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say they have come up with an even better way to make PLA, using the emerging science of synthetic biology.
According to the Sioux Falls Argus, this fall the rural town of Bonesteel will teach high school biology, physics and physical science via the Internet, working with other classmates to solve problems created in a series of scenarios and problems.
One worry is that the new science of synthetic biology, the souped-up form of genetic engineering that involves radically modifying organisms or even someday designing them from scratch, is both more promising and more dangerous that the technology that has been around for two decades and gave birth to Amgen, Genencor, and Monsanto.
One worry is that the new science of synthetic biology, the souped-up form of genetic engineering that involves radically modifying organisms or even someday designing them from scratch, is both more promising and more dangerous that the technology that has been around for two decades and gave birth to Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ), Genencor, and Monsanto (nyse: MON - news - people ).
However, he warned against focussing disproportionately on the eight areas of excellence outlined by the Chancellor in November ("big data" computing, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, agricultural science, energy storage, space, robotics and advanced materials including nanotechnology).
Arizona State University, UVA's Darden School of Business, Reed College, Pace University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Washington and Princeton University are participating in the pilot program with classes in political science, business and biology, among other subjects.
In his speech, Mr Osborne set out seven further areas where the government thinks Britain is a world leader and can and must go further: computing, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, agricultural science, energy storage, robotics and advanced materials including nanotechnology.
The study, published in 2009 in one of the journals of the Public Library of Science, PLoS Computational Biology, also showed that patients who developed diseases that tend to coincide with many others were more likely to die sooner than people whose diseases were more tangentially connected.
Thomas and Powers both studied biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Ayala is a popular speaker not only on evolutionary biology, but on the relationship between science and religion.
Read on to learn which countries produced the most science when it comes to biology and medicine.
This story is one of four parts examining the scientific output of different nations in biology, clean energy, and computer science.
This story is the first of four parts examining the scientific output of different nations in biology, clean energy, and computer science.
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Annette Smith, chief executive of the Association of Science Education, described the biology, chemistry and physics curricula as a "dull list of topics".
Popular Science magazine in its annual Worst Jobs in Science issue now lists Kansas biology teacher as the third worst job, just above manure inspector.
Other people living in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to be given awards include Professor Janet Thornton, head of the European Bioinformatics Institute, who was made a Dame for services to bioinformatics, the application of computer science to the field of biology and medicine.
The citation for his knighthood credits Prof Wilmut with "revolutionising" biology through the cloning technique which underpins the science of stem cell technology.
Patell, a business-school professor, consisted of thirty-seven graduate and three undergraduate students from thirteen departments, including engineering, political science, business, medicine, biology, and education.
The side effects that ultimately emerged with a handful of their most promising candidates are more attributable to the serendipity of human biology than any systematic shortcomings in the Vertex science machine.
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