Research at the University of Florida's fuel cell lab aims largely at making such fuel cell systems more efficient and less polluting and integrating them with vehicles, he said.
Douglas Kerr, a scientist at Johns Hopkins, which is using money from billionaire Bloomberg to create a stem-cell lab, says the lack of NIH help could delay a treatment for spinal cord injury for decades.
But if a drug has already been through enough tests in cell cultures and lab animals to justify starting clinical trials, the odds of success have risen to one in nine.
Two hundred GM scientists and engineers are working on all four problems at once at the company's fuel-cell headquarters, a lab next to a livestock feed store in tiny Honeoye Falls, N.
Jensen was able to begin patient trials just two years after starting lab work on this designer T cell therapy.
To achieve that, the engineers will have to include multiple cell types and devise a system that allows the lab-built creature to sense its environment and use an internal "decision-making circuit" to pick different behaviors.
Craig Venter, who mapped the genome back in 1995, talked about his latest project: ushering in the "Jurassic Park" era of combinatorial genomics, where scientists will create life by typing out DNA. He predicts his team will be able to produce a single-cell eurkaryote--and eventually gasoline--in the lab from cellular building blocks within ten years.
Then she walked into a lab and asked a student if she could borrow his cell phone.
While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biological computers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.
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She met with him last December when he came to visit her lab, where she researches the ocean phytoplankton Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic cell on the planet.
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When we turned the corner, the students in the lab had basically formed a wall about 10-12 feet away from us, with cell phone cameras at the ready.
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