HABITAT 2020: Future Smart ‘Living’ Architecture

One of the most effective ways to cut down the ecological footprint of buildings is to follow the lead of nature through biomimicry. Habitat 2020 is a future forward example of biomimetic architecture that fuses high-tech ideas with basic cellular functions to create ‘living’ structures that operate like natural organisms.
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Famished gene is found and could help tackle obesity

A genetic change that makes white people feel famished has been found in research that could help predict the children at risk of obesity and develop new treatments.
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Researchers Make a Giant Leap in Stem Cell Research

Now scientists with Rudolph Jaenisch’s lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have discovered a way to transform any type of tissue into a stem cell and ensure all the produced stem cells are genetically identical.
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