Scientists in the US succeed in developing the first living bacterial cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA.
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Scientists have created an artificial material that mimics the tough, stretchy properties of muscle.
The material could find a potential application as a "scaffold" to aid muscle regeneration.
Researchers engineered a polymer to reproduce the properties of titin – a protein which largely determines the elastic properties of muscle.
The work, by a US-Canadian team of [...]

Scientists have shown they can change people’s moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses.
They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality.
And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers’ notion of right and wrong. [...]