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**CBA News & Notes**

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May 7, 2021

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- We're pleased to share exciting results from CBA teams working at the frontiers of bits and atoms. They've contributed the algorithms to mathematically unfold historic sealed letters in an unusual international collaboration:\
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  <https://news.mit.edu/2021/researchers-virtually-open-sealed-historic-letters-0302>

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  They provided the microfluidics used to visualize and identify the genes needed for growth and division in a minimal synthetic cell:\
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  <https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-life-forged-in-a-lab-scientists-create-synthetic-cell-that-grows-and-divides-normally/>

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  And they've shown how olfaction can be used for cancer detection:\
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  <https://news.mit.edu/2021/disease-detection-device-dogs-0217>

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  and why diffusion fails to make a stink:\
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  <https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0044064>

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  - CBA will co-host another Interspecies Internet workshop and public event:\
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    <https://www.interspecies.io/conferences/conversations-2021>

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    A participant at last year's event covered the project here:\
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    <https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-challenges-of-animal-translation>

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    - Neil Gershenfeld will be speaking about CBA's work on fabrication on small scales:\
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      <https://eipbn.org/program/>

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      and at long distances:\
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      <https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2021/program/content/57028>

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      - Her Excellency Monica Geingos, the first lady of Namibia, visited the BioHab site in April to see how food and building materials are being produced from waste biomass there:\
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        <https://botswanaunplugged.com/18003/stanbic-bank-parent-standard-bank-partners-with-mit-on-innovative-housing-and-food-project-in-namibia/>

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        - A fab lab in India is inviting contributions to the distributed development and production of urgently-needed oxygen concentrators:\
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          <https://www.makersasylum.com/m19-oxikit/>

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          - A project from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia's green fab lab was selected as as one 16 global design concepts for an unpredictable future:\
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            <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/arts/design/designers-global-challenges.html>

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            A number of CBA friends and colleagues spoke at IAAC's 20th anniversary:\
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            <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVR1vhiwGs>

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            and at the 10th anniversary of fab labs in Latin America:\
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            <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7Y8P4sNTU>

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            - With support from Solidworks, CBA remotely deployed a fab for humanitarian relief in Nepal:\
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              <https://medium.com/frontier-technologies-hub/fab-lab-nepal-in-the-foothills-of-the-digital-himalayas-190d0bd82451>

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