Register Christmas Lecture — Anders Sandberg on Transhumanism
Anders Sandberg of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute taking us on a tour of transhumanism and human enhancement
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Longevity Drug Interactions
I take about a dozen different pills for longevity. There is some evidence behind each of them, but what we really don’t know is how they interact.
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Why treat gene editing differently in two types of human cells?
At the conclusion of the recent International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC, its organizing committee released a much-anticipated statement recommending how human genetic engineering should be regulated.
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Event Review: International Summit on Gene Editing
On December 1st – December 3rd 2015, the main scientific body of the United States, that is, the National Academies, held the first international summit on gene editing.
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Video Friday: Diffusion — future bodies
Why don't humans have patterned texture like animals?
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Video Friday: DIYSECT — DIY Biology and Bioart
The excellent DIYSECT web-series covers the DIY biohacking scene. Watch the first four parts online today.
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DIY Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech Economies
1. INTRODUCTION Most articles on garage biology and do-it-yourself (DIY) biology – whether academic papers or media reports – highlight its somewhat “immaterial” cultures or ideologies. The issues usually raised include: the ways in which do-it-yourself biology potentially democratizes science and fosters a citizen science (Wolinsky, 2009), that its practitioners are a “creative proof of the hacke...
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Hacking the body: the scientific counter-culture of the DIYbio movement
Science and biology are slowly, but smoothly, being co-opted by a DIY approach that’s looking an awful lot like the start of the tech start-up boom.
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Video Friday: Ron Shigeta Chief Science Officer at IndieBio
Ron Shigeta is the Chief Science Officer at IndieBio, a seed stage Biotechnology Accelerator in San Francisco.
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Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but how secure are all their data?
Even the most physically secure research lab could be the site of a devastating data security breach.
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