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Synthetic biology on ordinary paper, results off the page

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23-Oct-2014

Contact: Kat J. McAlpine katherine.mcalpine@wyss.harvard.edu 617-432-8266 Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard @wyssinstitute

BOSTON - New achievements in synthetic biology announced today by researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which will allow complex cellular recognition reactions to proceed outside of living cells, will dare scientists to dream big: there could one day be inexpensive, shippable and accurate test kits that use saliva or a drop of blood to identify specific disease or infection a feat that could be accomplished anywhere in the world, within minutes and without laboratory support, just by using a pocketsized paper diagnostic tool.

That once farfetched idea seems within closer reach as a result of two new studies describing the advances, published today in Cell, accomplished through extensive crossteam collaboration between two teams at the Wyss Institute headed by Wyss Core Faculty Members James Collins, Ph.D., and Peng Yin, Ph.D..

"In the last fifteen years, there have been exciting advances in synthetic biology," said Collins, who is also Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Boston University, and CoDirector and CoFounder of the Center of Synthetic Biology. "But until now, researchers have been limited in their progress due to the complexity of biological systems and the challenges faced when trying to repurpose them. Synthetic biology has been confined to the laboratory, operating within living cells or in liquidsolution test tubes."

The conventional process can be thought of through an analogy to computer programming. Synthetic gene networks are built to carry out functions, similar to software applications, within a living cell or in a liquid solution, which is considered the "operating system".

"What we have been able to do is to create an in vitro, sterile, abiotic operating system upon which we can rationally design synthetic, biological mechanisms to carry out specific functions," said Collins, senior author of the first study, "PaperBased Synthetic Gene Networks".

Leveraging an innovation for chemistrybased paper diagnostics previously devised by Wyss Institute Core Faculty Member George Whitesides, Ph.D. , the new in vitro operating system is ordinary paper.

"We've harnessed the genetic machinery of cells and embedded them in the fiber matrix of paper, which can then be freeze dried for storage and transport we can now take synthetic biology out of the lab and use it anywhere to better understand our health and the environment," said lead author and Wyss Staff Scientist Keith Pardee, Ph.D.

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Playing in Moscow, cancelled in London: the censorship of Exhibit B – Video

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Playing in Moscow, cancelled in London: the censorship of Exhibit B
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Houstons censorship challenge

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Houston recently passed an ordinance through its city council that has sparked quite a bit of controversy among conservative evangelicals. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), a broad-sweeping, left-leaning law trumpeted by Houston and its openly gay mayor, Annise Parker, is supposed to protect gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination. All well and good, but according to the Independent Journal Review, the ordinance to ensure nondiscrimination discriminates against those of faith who oppose it.

Five pastors, members of Houston's conservative, evangelical base, oppose HERO, and the pastors aren't being too quiet about it. They're circulating petitions and gathering signatures in an attempt to get the law repealed.

Houston then issued subpoenas for the pastors to turn over All speeches, presentations, or sermons related to HERO, the Petition, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality, or gender identity prepared by, delivered by, revised by, or approved by you or in your possession, so that it could, according to Time.com, determine how the preachers instructed their congregants in their push to get the law repealed.

No one was surprised when the pastors filed suit.

The blowback to the subpoenas was so intense that last Friday, Houston backpedaled and dropped the word sermon from the subpoena, as well as ...requests for pastors' teachings on sexuality and gender identity. The city still wants to see all the speeches, presentations, documents, text messages and emails that relate to the pastors' work to get HERO repealed, though.

Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general and a Republican candidate for governor, sent a letter to Mayor Parker's office requesting she immediately drop the subpoena requests. As reported on Christianitytoday.com, he wrote: Government officials must exercise the utmost care when our work touches on religious matters. Your aggressive and invasive subpoenas show no regard for the very serious First Amendment considerations at stake.

The subpoenas are censorship, pure and simple, and they blur the line of demarcation that is supposed to separate church from state.

After the outcry, Mayor Parker broke out the politician's primer and issued a well-crafted statement that said the subpoenas were overly broad and would be amended. News flash, Mayor Parker. It's still censorship. Tossing a few deck chairs off the Titanic didn't stop the ship from sinking and deleting a few words from an overly broad subpoena won't make it anything other than what it is religious intimidation.

Dr. Ed Young, pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Houston, jokingly tells me he is happy to send his sermons to the mayor and has done so voluntarily in the past as a form of what Baptists call witnessing to the Gospel of Christ. He says he did not receive a subpoena. The key word here is voluntarily.

For a government official to try to intimidate or censor speech from the pulpit, or any other form of communication, is clearly unconstitutional and this effort by Houston's mayor should not survive a single court challenge.

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Ron Paul Curriculum Speech #4 – Video

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Paul straddles foreign policy divide

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(CNN) -- For the first time since facing an onslaught of criticism this year over his foreign policy views, Sen. Rand Paul spelled out his national security principles Thursday in a comprehensive speech.

The Kentucky Republican, who's aggressively laying groundwork for a potential presidential campaign, sought to paint himself as a champion of "conservative realism," a doctrine that skates between the hawkish and dovish ends of the foreign policy spectrum.

"Yes, we need a hammer ready, but not every civil war is a nail," he said in New York at the Center for the National Interest, a think-tank founded by former President Richard Nixon.

"We need a foreign policy that recognized our limits, preserves our might and a common sense conservative realism of strength and action," he added.

Rand Paul: Washington's 'barnacled enablers' push for constant war

Paul attempted to address critics that characterize his views as isolationist and was aiming to approach his speech Thursday from the perspective of a major, would-be U.S. leader, rather than a lawmaker, a spokesman told CNN before the speech.

He sketched out how and when he would advocate for the use of force, saying he would only do so if he felt the United States or its interests were threatened. He said he supported the response to al Qaeda after 9/11, for example, but disagrees with the continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan.

Rand Paul takes veiled swipe at Ted Cruz

"It's hard to understand our current objective. Stalemate and perpetual policing seems to be our mission now in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria," he said. " A precondition for the use of force must be a clear end and a goal."

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Eskind Biomedical Library highlights world of Harry Potter

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Vanderbilts Eskind Biomedical Library is currently hosting a special exhibit, Harry Potters World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine, which will run through November 12.

Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, the exhibit honors science, magic, and alchemy, connecting to Harry Potters world, which has magical roots in alchemy traditions of the Renaissance era. The exhibit presents books by the sixteenth century alchemist Paracelsus, the barber surgeon Ambrose Par, plus other illustrated works of anatomy, mythology, and botany. Old surgical kits scatter the tables, as do pharmaceutical bottles and blood-letting bowls, which were used when removing patients blood as a form of treatment.

This exhibit also includes a hands-on portion, which includes a mortar and pestle, hand-weights, an old microscope, and four batches of herbs much like the ones Harry Potter uses in his potion classes.

Vanderbilt supplants this exhibit with materials from its own collection, including a sixteenth century book on surgery, one of the oldest within Vanderbilts library system.

The exhibit is open from 9 am to 5:30 p.m. in the Historical Collections room on the third floor of the library, and includes six stations: Herbology, Potions, Monsters, Fantastic Beasts, Immortality, and Magical Creatures.

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A gift of trust

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Publication Date : 24-10-2014

On his second day in office, President Joko Jokowi Widodo received a gift from the UN, said Desra Percaya, Indonesias permanent representative to the UN. Indonesia retained its seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) having been re-elected by UN members to represent Asia, alongside India, Bangladesh and Qatar.

Desra said Indonesias reelection was a real display of trust by the international community in Indonesias human rights protection and promotion, strengthening democracy consolidation, as well as a form of optimism in our new government.

The President seems fully aware of all the expectations being placed upon his skinny frame, regardless of the limitations he may have in addressing issues from A to Z. With regard to human rights, former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has left him with a contradicting legacy of international recognition of Indonesias progress, and a largely impenetrable wall blocking ways to resolve past and current human rights violations.

Given this highly complex backdrop, Jokowis close supporters have confided that consolidation is Jokowis priority, as he must reach out and embrace the many different parties to find sufficient common ground before setting out his agenda with minimal distraction.

The painfully slow days needed to form his Cabinet are evidence of that difficult first step to start his five years in office.

In resolving human rights, one challenge is gaining enough interest from a public that might press him to move forward, rather than dwell in the past. On human rights, his vision and mission titled Nawacita, one of his citations from founding father Sukarno, states the goal of strengthening the presence of the state, among others by upholding the law through prioritising just settlement of past human rights violations.

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