Changing A Cell's Biological Battery

August 28, 2009 Leave a Comment

26.08.2009

“A new method tested in monkeys for replacing mitochondrial DNA could one day prevent devastating diseases.

Mitochondrial diseases, which affect as many as one in 4,000 people, can impair muscles, nerves, even entire organ systems, and have no known cure. Now, in a breakthrough study, Oregon researchers replaced defective mitochondrial DNA with that from a healthy donor. The first subjects, four baby monkeys, are pushing the envelope on the ethical debate that surrounds bioengineering. [...]”

Source/article: Technology Review

Filed Under 2009, Health, SESTI Signals Tagged With Biotech, ELSI, Ethics, Genetics, Health, HET, Medicine, SESTI Signal, Society

h+ Magazine Summer Edition

June 5, 2009 Leave a Comment

June 2009

h+ covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing — and will change — human beings in fundamental ways. We will be following developments in areas like NBIC (nano-bio-info-cog), longevity, performance enhancement and self-modification, Virtual Reality, “The Singularity,” and other areas that both promise and threaten to radically alter our lives and our view of the world and ourselves.

More than that, h+ aims to reflect this newest edge culture by featuring creative expressions of humanity on a razor’s edge where daily life and science fiction seem to be merging.

Cover Stories of Summer Edition

    :: Designer Baby Controversy
    :: From X Prize to Singularity U
    :: Biohacking Arrives
    :: Legalize Sports Doping?
    :: Was That a Bot or a Human?
    :: Chris Conte’s Microbotic Art

Features:

    :: Here Come the Neurobots
    :: Real Discrimination Against Virtual People
    :: The Man Behind Biosphere 2
    :: Everything of the Dead: The Future of Humanity is Zombie
    :: Life On Mars with Pete Worden
Source: h+ Magazine
Filed Under 2009, Energy, Health, SESTI Signals Tagged With Biotech, ELSI, Environment, Ethics, Futurology, Health, HET, Implants/Prosthetics, Medicine, Nanotech, Robotics, SciTech n.e.c., SESTI Signal, Society

EU advises on posthuman cyborg future

May 5, 2009 Leave a Comment

May 2009

Philosophers and engineers have debated whether or not we are all gradually becoming post-human cyborgs for decades. Now, the European Parliament is meeting to debate the issues next month [...]The European Parliament is set to debate issues surrounding smart drugs, cybernetic body enhancements, cosmetic surgery and more over the coming months to “establish an advisory committee on all aspects of human enhancement, the first committee of its kind.” [...]”

Source/article: TechRadar

Filed Under 2009, Health Tagged With Biotech, ELSI, Ethics, Futurology, Genetics, HET, ICT, Implants/Prosthetics, Medicine, Politics, Society, Stem Cell