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Homo Syntheticus, Phase I: synthetic genomes arrive
…sooner than I expected. Today smokestacks, tomorrow bronchii: Progress in creating artificial virus. I’m just sayin’… Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012The post Homo Syntheticus, Phase I: synthetic...
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Homo Syntheticus, Addendum A: artificial pores
You see where I’m going with this…genetic sequences that express as skin cells with toxic substance-detection capability. It starts here: as Karen Lurie writes in ScienCentral: Super Screener, Lydia...
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Homo Syntheticus, Addendum B: DNA/nanotube transistors
In his New York Times article Smaller Computer Chips Built Using DNA as Template, Kenneth Chang wrote: In an advance that might provide a practical method for making molecular-size circuits, the...
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Homo Syntheticus: synthetic DNA from synthetic oligonucleotides
Not just a sci-fi fantasy… Generating a synthetic genome by whole genome assembly: φX174 bacteriophage from synthetic oligonucleotides Abstract We have improved upon the methodology and dramatically...
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The Singularity Summit 2009: Coming to NYC in October!
First used in its current sense by mathematician and scifi writer Vernor Vinge in 1993, and introduced to popular culture by technology futurist Ray Kurzweil 1n 2005, the Singularity is the...
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Artificial Life: Cell on a Chip
In Technology Review: Cell on a Chip, Lauren Gravitz reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, have created the first artificial cellular organelle. This “cell on a...
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Bioinformatics in the Big Apple
On May 3, 2010 the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) held the Update on Medical IT: What Every Health Professional Needs to Know sponsored by NYAM Informatics Special Interest Group and Columbia...
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Breaking News! Transhumans descend on NYC! Designs unknown!
Well, OK, that would be Transhumanists. And yes, we’ll be converging on NYC with grand designs, but there’s nothing evil afoot. We’ll be here on May 14-15 2011 for the Transhumanism Meets Design...
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Transhumans: Beyond a social species?
Transhumanism has been defined by Humanity+ as the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied...
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The world according to Itskov: Futurists convene at GF2045
As many Phys.org readers undoubtedly know, Einstein famously said that imagination is more important than knowledge – but there’s more to it. The full quote reads: I believe in intuition and...
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