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Contact: Bill Ferguson bferguson@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, November 20, 2012Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of Soft Robotics, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science and engineering of soft materials in mobile machines. The Journal breaks new ground as the first to answer the urgent need for research on robotic technology that can safely interact with living systems and function in complex natural or human-built environments. Soft Robotics will be published in print and online with Open Access options.

Multidisciplinary in scope, Soft Robotics combines advances in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, mathematical modeling, biopolymer chemistry, computer science, and tissue engineering to provide comprehensive coverage of new approaches to constructing devices that can undergo dramatic changes in shape and size in order to adapt to various environments. This new technology delivers vital applications for a variety of purposes, including surgery, assistive healthcare devices, search and rescue in emergency situations, space instrument repair, mine detection, and more. The Journal covers topics related to device development such as soft material creation, characterization, and modeling; flexible and degradable electronics; soft actuators and sensors; control and simulation of highly deformable structures; biomechanics and control of soft animals and tissues; biohybrid devices and living machines; and design and fabrication of conformable machines.

Soft Robotics is led by Editor-in-Chief Barry A. Trimmer, PhD, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences and the Director of the Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory at Tufts University. A distinguished team of Associate Editors includes John H. Long, Jr., Vassar College (biomechanics); Josh Bongard, University of Vermont (computer science and controls); Fumiya Iida, Swiss Institute of Robotics and Intelligence Systems (biorobotics); Qibing Pei, UCLA (materials development and applications); and Nanshu Lu, University of Texas (flexible electronics). Bill Ferguson, PhD from the Publisher will serve as Managing Editor.

"This powerful new journal provides a much-needed cross-discipline forum on the rapidly advancing science and engineering of Soft Robotics which has great potential for benefit to mankind and our world," says Dr. Trimmer.

Company founder and CEO Mary Ann Liebert comments, "Soft Robotics is an important and growing field with great promise; the Journal will make a significant contribution to the literature and also advance the field. Under the leadership of Dr. Barry Trimmer, this journal will play an important role in the advancement of soft robotic technologies and applications."

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Light-Controlled Brains
Using a little genetic engineering and light, researchers can control the brains of model organisms with light. Courtesy of MIT/Sputnik Animation/Ed BoydenFrom:wiredViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:51More inEntertainment

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FAR CRY 3 : The Movie (2013) - Official Trailer
The Far Cry Experience : Exclusive Episode 4 is out and 5 will be out soon Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter set on a tropical island unlike any other. This is a place where heavily armed warlords traffic in slaves. Where outsiders are hunted for ransom. And as you embark on desperate quest to rescue your friends, you realize that the only way to escape this darkness... is to embrace it. Far Cry 3 releases December 4th on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. For more information go to http://www.farcrygame.com. -- Story of the franchise: Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek Studios and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004, for Microsoft Windows. Far Cry sold 730000 units within four months of release.[1] It received positive reviews upon release. The original game has since spawned a series of sequels and spin-off games and a movie. The game #39;s story follows a former US Army Special Forces operative Jack Carver, who is stranded on a mysterious archipelago. He is searching for a female journalist he was escorting after she went missing when their boat was destroyed by mercenaries. The game includes thematic elements relating to the dangers of weaponizing genetic engineering and the genocide of local islanders as can be seen by the deformed creatures created by a mad scientist named Krieger. The terrain in Far Cry varies greatly. Set on a South Pacific archipelago, the landscape includes beaches, dense rain forests, towering canyons, mines ...From:John RamboViews:107 6ratingsTime:01:23More inFilm Animation

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What A PIECE OF CRAP - DECEIVER - I AM SO SICK OF THESE PEOPLE!
The latest lie from the pit of hell = "It is written that a group of individuals -- called the Elohim -- made man with a genetic engineering intervention, by mixing their own DNA with the DNA of primates already present on the Earth" beforeitsnews.comFrom:Susan KimballViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:21More inEducation

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Ray X-Spex - Day The World Turned Day-Glo Genetic Engineering @ The Royal Oak, Bath 18-10-2012
The Royal Oak Cider and Punk weekend Public event By The Royal Oak, Bath 18 October at 16:00 until 20 October at 01:00 http://www.facebook.com Thats correct it time for another punk and cider weekend, i mean what could go wrong with over 30 strange and lovely ciders to try, Lots of lovely live music and as always its FREE entry. There will also be a chance to get some vintage B,O,B festival merchandise and rase money for the 2013 B,O,B festival. For more information on B,O,B fest visit http://www.thebobfestival.com MUSIC: Thursday = This Ends Hear, The Lone Sharks and Ray X Spex. Friday = The SetBacks, The Kiss Curis, Virus, Rita Lynch and Citizen Fish. Saturday = Onanism, Lower The Flag, Cydernide and The A Heads.From:MalcolmHerrsteinViews:1 0ratingsTime:06:19More inMusic

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Transgenic Zebrafish Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein - Genetic Engineering - Lu Le Laboratory
Transgenic Zebrafish Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein. The heart beats could be seen very easy.From:lulelaboratoryViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:35More inScience Technology

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Universal Genetic Engineering Insanity (HD)
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After that long turkey-induced sleep, heres to some good science. This weeks picks includes an emotional piece about a dad, synthetic biology as the sci-fi extension of genetic engineering, astronomy in China and much much more (including one Thanksgiving-themed post).

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Science is more than lab work and journals but we tend to forget this sometimes. Pete Etchells in his SciLogs.com blog, Counterbalanced, pens a wonderful wonderful piece about his father, who has been his inspiration to pursue a career in research. Petes blog post is moving and is a must-read because it showcases another aspect of science: humanity.

Why I hate neurons So why did my Dad also inspire an irrational hatred of neurons? Because fourteen years ago today, on a freezing, dark, miserable day in November, my Dad died, two years after being diagnosed with a form of Motor Neuron Disease (MND) called Progressive Muscular Atrophy.

In BuzzFeed this week, Allison McCann has a delightful feature about synthetic biology which she describes as the science fiction-like branch of genetic engineering. Allison goes on to give a good account of the field and the challenges synthetic biologists face as they go all mad scientists on us.

How To Code A Life Synthetic biology the science fiction-like branch of genetic engineering hopes to automate programs used to engineer organisms that could produce better drugs and cleaner fuels. But can open-source science really succeed? Synthetic biologists write code. But when their code is compiled, it doesnt become an app. It becomes, or at least changes, life.

Nadia Drake explores Chinas ambitions in the field of astronomy while on a visit to the country. Writing in the December issue of Science News, Nadia dwells a little bit into Chinas impressive beginnings in the field and how it suddenly all went bad. Now, China is playing catch up but with proper backing, it looks set to push the frontiers of astronomy even further relatively soon. An exceptional #longread.

Onward and Skyward High in Beijings sky, the August sun glows red by midafternoon, a star struggling to illuminate Chinas crowded capital from above the dust and pollution. Im in the city along with 3,200 astronomers for the International Astronomical Unions two-week General Assembly meeting. Its the first time the IAU has convened the assembly in China, an important milestone for a country attempting to reclaim its former astronomical significance.

Jon Tennant (interviewed this week on this blog), blogging in his European Geosciences Union blog, Green Tea and Velociraptor, has an excellent post about geoscience in the news. Jon dissects a recent paper which not only points out the negatives of the medias portrayal of geoscience but also suggests future actions that can be both journalists and researchers.

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