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Archive for the ‘Genetics’ Category

Editor's Blog

May 22, 2013

Trofim Lysenko was born of a peasant family from the Ukraine in 1898. He attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute and was trained as an agronomist. In 1927 he studied the effects of low temperatures on crop plant growth and development, and claimed that this treatment (called “vernalization”) increased crop yields and became an inherited trait in the treated plants.

April 27, 2013

Gene Clears Brain Plaque, Dirt Cheap Genetic Testing, Cancer Bursts

April 19, 2013

Gene therapy for hearts, sensory disorders and perhaps sensory enhancement, 8 day leukemia cure.

March 12, 2013

Nick Bostrom interviewed at AGI 12 by Adam A. Ford

February 25, 2013

BioTime, a biotechnology company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, is focused on biomedical research and product development in regenerative medicine.

February 23, 2013

Bioethics cage match between Sheldon Krimsky – Professor, Tufts University and Lord Robert Winston -Emeritus Professor, Fertility Studies, Imperial College VS Nita Farahany – Professor of Law and Philosophy and Professor of Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University and Lee Silver – Professor, Princeton University

January 18, 2013

Ben and Natasha discuss cyborgs, the future of the human body, H+ TV , and Natasha’s new book.

January 16, 2013

We need to stop. Take a deep breath. We need to turn our anger into discriminating intelligence and wisdom before it is too late.

January 2, 2013

Initially slow, cumbersome, and expensive, DNA sequencing techniques have vastly improved. In fact, over the past forty years the known DNA sequences have doubled every sixteen months, giving a logarithmic nine orders of magnitude database increase since 1965.

December 28, 2012

13 papers from Nature that were among the most widely read, cited, and circulated on social media and might be of interest to H+ readers.

Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis
January 18th, 2011

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.

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