biotechnology

Dolly the sheep, Finn Dorset breed, was born on July 5, 1996 at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh (Scotland).

A muscle tissue in the laboratory that perfectly mimics beef could put an end to food production on farms.

That nanotechnology is one of the most powerful technologies that human beings have created in recent centuries is something that Tim Harper, from Cientifica.com, made very clear yesterday to those attending the debate on "The future of nanotechnology" at EmTech Spain. But the most important thing, he stressed, is that to work well on the scale of atoms and molecules we have had - and will have - to learn from nature.

Smart cities, video games, biotechnology, space robotics, nanotechnology ... Smart cities, video games, biotechnology, space robotics, nanotechnology ... The EmTech conference, which for more than a decade has been the great annual event of the Technology Review publication, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), lands this month for the first time in Spain to talk about the technological future that awaits us.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Development Cooperation has been awarded in its third edition to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), for its contribution "to reducing poverty and hunger in the world through rice research and farmer training. "

A remote and hostile lake of volcanic origin in Argentina, inhabited by millions of "superbugs", may give clues about how life began on Earth and what forms of life could subsist on other planets with extreme conditions, such as neighboring Mars.

Using orange peels, newspapers and other products that normally end up in the trash, scientists at the University of Florida (United States) have managed to produce a cheap type of ethanol that pollutes less than gasoline and electricity. The characteristics of the new method are published in the "Plant Biotechnology Journal".

Japanese researchers have created for the first time a transgenic line of monkeys that transmits their modified genes to their offspring, as published today in the journal Nature.