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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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Urban farming for urban families

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The 15th Street Farm NEP teaches its students about the links between agriculture, nutrition and wellness. This is critically important in light of modernisation and the disconnect between humans and the natural world.” Meet David I majored in anthropology and biology at university. What do students learn?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. Some of it seems intrinsic to our biological nature. It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

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