Controversy has surrounded both the ethics and methods of stem cell research. Researchers have just succeeded in returning adult skin cells to a virgin stem cell state which can then be made into nearly any tissue.
This week, though, a talk at a DARPA-funded event brought widespread attention to a technology that promises to make DNA synthesis thousands of times cheaper, potentially offering the first real price drop in DNA synthesis.
This week, the American Chemical Society’s journal Nano printed an article detailing the use of carbon nanotubes in a growth scaffold for rat heart cells. The result? Very possibly the first working model of functional, grown heart cells, and the first step down the long road to complex organs on demand.
Recreating a dinosaur is, and will always be, science fiction.
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