self healing paint job

Scratches no match for Nissan's new car paint

This is pretty cool, even though it is just the paint job on a car. Think how much money this can save the consumer though!

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Cloned food

Poll: People reluctant to buy cloned food

This just seems silly to me, how much difference could it make being cloned or not? With the possible exception that it might somehow cause something like a prion disease. If it's meat, you're cooking it anyway, denaturing almost every protein and enzyme that would be in it. Plant material is less worrisome anyway, I don't think there is a disease that we can catch from plants (maybe caused by them, but not catch from them)

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Tissue engineering

Engineered Blood Vessels for Dialysis

This bodes well for people that have failing organs, once the results of this are proven, and combined with organ printing will provide you with replacments that won't force you to compromise your immune system. Only thing left will be the brain.

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New microscope allows scientists to track a functioning protein with atomic-level precision

New microscope allows scientists to track a functioning protein with atomic-level precision

This has allowed the researchers to watch RNAP to travel up the DNA strand and for the first time see exactly how transcription works. This currently has potential to affect the field of proteomics and protein folding study, and who knows what else down the line can be found for it.

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