Squirmy: Not the Usual Descriptor of a Robot

Mar 27, 2007

It's a rare synthetic biology meeting that doesn't include at least a small section on robotics. Today's science section in the New York Times leads off with an article about some of the latest and greatest efforts in designing and building lifelike 'bots.

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Squirmy: Not the Usual Descriptor of a Robot

Roche Receives EUA for PCR-Based, Point-of-Care SARS-CoV-2 Test

Decode Study Identifies Proteomic Predictors of All-Cause Mortality

In Brief This Week: Natera, Bruker, Bayer, and More

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: Labcorp, Omniseq, Dovetail Genomics, DNA Script, More

People in the News: New Appointments at Sema4, Strata Oncology, Bionano Genomics, More

Co-Diagnostics Gets CE Mark for Saliva-Based Molecular SARS-CoV-2 Test