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Oct 8, 2016
“Genetically Edited Organisms”(GME): Monsanto and the CRISPR Genome Editing Technology. Who Would you Trust to “Play God”?
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics
Last week the U.S. corporation Monsanto, which holds a leading position in the global market of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), reached a licensing agreement with the Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA, on the commercial use of the innovative genome-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9 for agriculture applications. This news has led some experts to believe that Monsanto will now completely switch from producing ‘traditional’ GMOs to ‘genetically edited’ organisms, which are supposedly ‘safer and practically identical’ to their natural alternatives.
Let’s have a closer look at this technology which makes GMO supporters feel so enthusiastic and has been positioned by them as the universal panacea solving all of mankind’s problems. We will also delve deeper into some of the darker aspects of CRISPR/Cas9; the points that biotechnology lobbyists prefer not to discuss.
Oct 8, 2016
Boys conceived through IVF technique have lower than average fertility
Posted by Steve Hill in category: genetics
IVF male children inherit their father’s fertility problems. Hopefully, preimplantation genetic diagnostics (PGD) can help solve this problem for the next generation born via IVF, and it can start solving it TODAY.
Tests on young men conceived via intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection show that they have lower sperm quantity and quality that those conceived naturally.
Oct 8, 2016
Singularity University Live Stream of Exponential Medicine 2016
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in categories: biotech/medical, health, singularity
Follow along with the Exponential Medicine 2016 livestream, presented by Guidewell. Join Singularity University as we explore the convergence of health and technology to catalyze the future of medicine.
Join us on Twitter @ExponentialMed and with #xmed.
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Oct 8, 2016
Interstellar Flight (Full Documentary HD)
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: education, robotics/AI, space travel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVett3htjBM
Interstellar travel is the term used for hypothetical manned or unmanned travel between stars. Interstellar travel will be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight; the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units (AU)—whereas the distances between stars are typically hundreds of thousands of AU, and usually expressed in light-years. Because of the vastness of those distances, interstellar travel would require a high percentage of the speed of light, or huge travel time, lasting from decades to millennia or longer.
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Oct 8, 2016
Germany’s Bundesrat Resolves End Of Internal Combustion Engine
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: transportation
Wondering why this can’t happen here
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt in a Tesla S at the 2014 AMI Auto Show (Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)
Diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles officially are an endangered species in Germany, and possibly all of the EU. This after Germany’s Bunderat has passed a resolution to ban the internal combustion engine starting in 2030, Germany’s Spiegel Magazin writes. Higher taxes may hasten the ICE’s departure.
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Oct 8, 2016
Artificial intelligence-powered malware is coming, and it’s going to be terrifying
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
Smart viruses holding hospital equipment to ransom. Malware that impersonates people you know. Data-altering software that can destroy corporations. Get ready.
Oct 8, 2016
ROBOT ARMIES: No more Western soldier deaths ‘in a DECADE’ as MACHINES take over
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: military, robotics/AI
A look at the military 10 years into the future—human soldier deaths become unacceptable:
THERE will be no longer be human casualties of war from wealthy countries within 10 years as advanced militaries will begin sending MACHINES to warzones to do their bidding, an expert has claimed.
Oct 8, 2016
Print-on-demand bone could quickly mend major injuries
Posted by Steve Hill in category: materials
CYBATHLON Championship for Athletes with Disabilities.
Watch the Cybathlon live here on 8 October. Livestreaming will start from 9.30 a.m.