Two 3D printed teeth implanted in woman’s mouth by robot

InterestingEngineering.com | Danielle De La Bastide | September 23, 2017

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Such an innovation could vastly improve the country’s current dentist shortage and frequent surgical errors. It was developed by the Fourth Military Medical University’s affiliated Stomatological Hospital, based in Xian, and the robot institute at Beihang University in Beijing…
400 million people in China need dental implants, but there aren’t nearly enough dentists on hand to provide the care needed. Only one million are done each year, leading many to go to unqualified individuals to get the work done which obviously leads to more problems.

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Endless possibilities for genetic engineering, environmental ameliorations, drug development…

Semi-synthetic organisms

Reginald Davey | updated Nov 27 2019 | News-Medical.net

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As a society, we face various issues in the modern world. Synthetic biology is an emerging field that is attempting to address these problems at the genetic level, and researchers in this field are pushing the boundaries of which proteins and processes can be developed and utilized.

One of the latest pieces of research to be undertaken is the invention of semi-synthetic organisms. But what is a semi-synthetic organism?

A semi-synthetic organism is a genetically modified organism (usually a bacterium such as E. Coli), which has had unnatural genetic information inserted into its genome. Read more...

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...and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind ... the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1

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