July 18, 2017

Weekly Biomedicine Newsletter

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This soft, 3-D-printed artificial heart beats like the real thing

It pumps blood using ventricles like those of a real heart, but it begins to degrade after just 3,000 beats.

 
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Why Alphabet’s Verily is releasing 20 million sterile mosquitoes in California

The company, an arm of Alphabet, is using mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria to fight dengue and Zika.

 
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Using CRISPR, scientists encoded this GIF into the genomes of living bacteria

Harvard researchers embedded images in the genomes of bacteria to test the limits of DNA storage.

 
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DARPA to Spend $65 million on Human Brain Modem

High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.

 
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A tiny DNA sequencer that’s traveled to space and the Antarctic can study life anywhere

A British company, number 32 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, bets a tiny analyzer will change how we look at DNA.

 
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