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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.

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

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

Nick Bostrom interviewed at AGI 12 by Adam A. Ford

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

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

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

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

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.

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