NSF funds $16 million synthetic biology center

BERKELEY – A new research center being launched this summer at the University of California, Berkeley, will seek to make it as quick and easy to engineer biology as it now is to assemble microprocessors, hard drives and memory chips into a computer.
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EUROPEAN ENERGY VENTURE FAIR 2006

ZURICH, SEPTEMBER 11-12 2006
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Mechanical ‘Artificial Hearts’ Can Remove Need For Heart Transplant By Returning Heart To Normal

Mechanical ‘artificial hearts’ can be used to return severely failing hearts to their normal function, potentially removing the need for heart transplantation, according to new research.
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