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Technology Dreamin'

Jul 18, 2007

At business|bytes|genes|molecules, Deepak Singh lists five technologies he'd like to have up and running. This group includes a search engine that would spit out all the known information about a gene or protein that is typed in as well as a multitouch interface for molecular modeling. See his complete list here.

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'Poo-Bank' Proposal

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New Scientist reports that researchers may have uncovered why about 60 percent of in vitro fertilization embryos stop developing.

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