Centre of Centers London welcomes 205 countries for Olympics
Centre of Centers LondON welcomes 205 countries for Olympics 2012. It’s the first and only City to welcome the games THREE times (1908, 1948, 2012). Women are for the first time competing in every sport. Useful links Journey Planner Top 10 London Attractions London 2012 – official Olympics website BBC Olympics coverage
Bioengineers build artificial jellyfish using silicone and rat’s heart muscle cells
Using recent advances in marine biomechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering, a team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming “jellyfish.” The finding serves as a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs […]
1st complete computer model of an organism produced
In a breakthrough effort for computational biology, the world’s first complete computer model of an organism has been completed by Stanford researchers. The team is led by Markus W.Covert, assistant professor of bioengineering and consists of Jonathan R. Karr Jayodita C. Sanghvi Derek N. Macklin Miriam V. Gutschow Jared M. Jacobs Benjamin Bolival Jr. Nacyra […]
