One worry about the possibility of radical germ line enhancement of the human species is that it may, at some point, produce a being so genetically superior to the regular human that the race would split in two.
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A report this week in Nature documents the work of Duke University researcher Miguel Nicolelis who have implanted sensors that enable rats to “touch” and respond to infrared light.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine are testing the first “brain pacemaker”, a device which provides for deep brain stimulation, for Alzheimer’s patients.