Four Statements About the Future
Let me propose to you four interesting statements about the future: 1. As I argue in this video, chemical brain preservation is a technology that may soon be validated to inexpensively preserve the key...
View ArticleWill p53 be the first widely altered human gene?
p53 (aka TP53) is one of the most intensively studied proteins encoded in the human genome, and presently there are over 64,000 scientific papers dealing with various aspects of its function....
View ArticleHuman enhancement and the future of work
Human enhancement and the future of work is a recently issued report from a joint workshop hosted by the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the...
View ArticleBiohacking: PCR Primer
Interested in biohacking but don’t know where to start? Do It Yourself Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is one easiest, most useful, and affordable biohacking technologies you can get started with....
View ArticleTop 13 Transhumanist Papers in Nature 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. Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability...
View ArticleBiohacking Primer: DNA Sequencing
Oswald Avery DNA was fist discovered in the 1860’s as a mildly acidic substance found in the nuclei of pus cells taken from wounded soldiers. Since the substance was acidic and nuclear, it was called...
View ArticleThe End of Anger
We are entering the age of the Super Empowered Angry Man. Individuals will have access to tools that give them dangerous abilities beyond anything we’ve seen so far. A frightening possibility,...
View ArticleBen Goertzel interviews Natasha Vita-More
I first encountered Natasha Vita-More’s thinking in the 1990s via her work as President of the Extropy Institute — the first serious transhumanist organization, which has played a large role in...
View ArticleIQ2 Debates: Should we prohibit designer babies?
The set up: “Imagine a world free of genetic diseases, where parents control their offspring’s height, eye color and intelligence. The science may be closer than you think. Genes interact in ways...
View ArticleTranshumanist Company: Dr. Michael West and BioTime Inc.
“BioTime is a biotechnology company focused on the emerging field of regenerative medicine. Our core technologies center on novel stem cells capable of becoming all of the cell types in the human...
View ArticleInterivew with Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom at AGI 12 by Adam A. Ford Nick Bostrom: I’m Nick Bostrom. I’m a professor here at Oxford University, and I direct the Future of Humanity Institute, which is a multidisciplinary research...
View ArticleCLIO Gene Therapy 4/19/13
Gene therapy for hearts http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/03/26/gene-therapy-may-aid-failing-hearts/ Sensory disorders and perhaps enhancement?...
View ArticleCLIO’s Gene Research Picks 4/27/13
Gene Clears Brain Plaque http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/26/alzheimers-advance-gene-could-help-to-clear-brain-plaques-responsible-for-the-disease/?xid=rss-topstories Dirt Cheap Genetic Testing...
View ArticleTrofim Lysenko, Soviet Ideology, and Pseudo-Science
New scientific theories that fundamentally alter our view of specific research areas usually do the following; 1) they explain most or all of the data relating to the specific area of inquiry, 2) they...
View ArticleInfographic: The Future of Babymaking
The Future of Baby Making infographic by NowSourcing.
View ArticleBetween Chimp-Pig and Superman
We humans share a lot of DNA with chimps and other primates, so there’s no real doubt we reside fairly close to these other creatures on the evolutionary tree. But yet, there are some major gaps in...
View ArticleBook Review: Life at the Speed of Light by J. Craig Venter (2013)
Authored by the leading scientist of the biotech century, Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life is an authoritative work introducing the possibilities emerging...
View ArticleA Heavy Hitter Weighs In Against Evolutionary Theory
Demography is the statistical study of population age structures, or the study of aging and fertility through population statistics. It’s not deep math, but it definitely attracts people who love...
View ArticleWhat Mars One Needs is Genetically Altered Human Colonists
What if we could re-engineer humans for the harsh environment of planets like Mars? Believe it or not there are scientists studying our genome to determine if altered humanity is a suitable strategy...
View ArticleThe Schism
From Schismatrix Plus: SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection Cover Artist: Jim Burns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Burns Even in this day of global change and universal paradigm shifts, the technologies...
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