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Bio-Bricks are a revolutionary building material made from pee, loose sand, and bacteria.

Extremophile proteins being adapted for use in nanotechnology devices http://www.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=13150 This webpage describes research designed to organize quantum dots via templating with chaperonin proteins from extremophiles. In this nanomaterials…

Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Flat” or Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”, and you get a glimpse into how the hacker culture that emerged at the tail end of the twentieth century revolutio…

Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and genetically modified bacteria that may be used to detect bacteriophages in a sample. In some embodiments, a rapid detection test is disclosed to test for the presence of coliphages which may indicate the presence of…