Bio Explorers

Now it is here as well. Link: BioNyfiken


Unpublished: TED - The Eastern World, TED - Forest Production System

DNA replication video

Link: WEHI.TV, imgur, YouTube (short), (long), wehi.
Unpublished: Self emerging patterns from feedback loops (video art), 2, 3, Life as a process
--> Longest process time ~ Survival, Cloning
Feedback loop: Receptor+Effector, Homeostatis
Distribution curves, 2, Normal distribution curve

Trace your ancestors home, 1000yrs ago via DNA

Tracing where your DNA was formed over 1,000 years ago is now possible, thanks to a revolutionary technique. The ground-breaking Geographic Population Structure tool works similarly to a satellite navigation system as it helps you to find your way home, but not the one you currently live in -- but rather your actual ancestor's home from 1,000 years ago.

Previously, scientists have only been able to locate where your DNA was formed to within 700kms, which in Europe could be two countries away; however this pioneering technique has been 98 per cent successful in locating worldwide populations to their right geographic regions, and down to their village and island of origin.

Tracing our ancestry is now a major social trend and genealogy is the number one hobby in America. An estimated one million people in the USA have already had their DNA genotyped. People can explore their DNA by simply taking a swab from inside their mouth and sending it to a company such as 23andme or ancestry.com for costs ranging from $99-$200.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aap-s1kle4Q

Read more: Science Daily
Unpublished: Understanding=listening to yourself, Magnetic spin vortices 

Precision Grammar for Programming Cells

An unprecedented collaboration among academia, industry, government and civil society has resulted in the launch of a professional-grade collection of public domain DNA parts that greatly increases the reliability and precision by which biology can be engineered.

They have, in effect, established rules for the first language for engineering gene expression, the layer between the genome and all the dynamic processes of life. The feat is all the more remarkable considering that just a few years ago several prominent scientists claimed that it would be impossible to develop frameworks enabling reliably reusable standard biological parts. 
The DNA sequences that encode all parts and the data about them are free and available online.

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3-D face from your DNA

Stranger Visions is an art project which tries to determine what we look like based on a single strand of hair.

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Biohackers - How to Build Your Own BioPrinter

Last month, a group of biohackers from the community lab BioCurious in Sunnyvale, California released a nine-step guide to creating your own bioprinter by using bits of old electronics that many people would have lying around the house.

Now, the TED talk of Wake Forest University researcher Anthony Atala 3-D-printing a dummy, human kidney on stage is the stuff of nerd mythology.

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DNA predict their life expectancy in patients with heart disease

Telomere length could be used in the future as a way to measure the effectiveness of heart care treatment.

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16-Year-Old Created A Cheap, Accurate Cancer Sensor

Developed a nearly 100 percent accurate paper sensor that detects pancreatic cancer better than anything else out there--it’s over 400 times more sensitive, 168 times faster, and 26,000 times less expensive than today’s methods.
There are no Ph.D.-clad scientists helping with the project. "It’s all just us, the kids developing the technologies.

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Biohacking (from IT to BT)

Soon your kids will know things and start things you couldn't even imagine.
The personal biotech communities have started to sprout, everywhere. And your kids might already be there, instead of in school. 

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Temporary link:
Goats making spider silk. Forward to 17:30
Biohacking a biomachine on a café. Forward to 27:00
1million litre bacterial Biodiesel in production. Forward to 34:00
Year 2012 people do things in garages that gave the Nobel prize 2008 (6years ago). Forward to 44:00

Update:
* Enhancing root systems