We could save a lot of space an consolidate the stories on sites like Slashdot if we just wrote something like "People with big money stop people with good ideas." It happens every day, and for no good reason other than because money.
If you don't like it, you can always use Bing. I hear it has superior search results for porn.
Don't waste your time with that old piece of junk. Get a new piece of junk instead, with a community behind it.
I am sure Linus is thrilled that his OS is installed on weapons.
Unlike conventional biotechnology, in which scientists induce modest genetic changes in cells to make them serve industrial purposes, synthetic biology involves the large-scale rewriting of genetic codes to create metabolic machines with singular purposes.
"I see a cell as a chassis and power supply for the artificial systems we are putting together," said Tom Knight of MIT, who likes to compare the state of cell biology today to that of mechanical engineering in 1864. That is when the United States began to adopt standardized thread sizes for nuts and bolts, an advance that allowed the construction of complex devices from simple, interchangeable parts.
If biology is to morph into an engineering discipline, it is going to need similarly standardized parts, Knight said. So he and colleagues have started a collection of hundreds of interchangeable genetic components they call BioBricks, which students and others are already popping into cells like Lego pieces.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
