NORTH Korea has brutally executed a coronavirus patient for going out in public, reports claim.
Kim Jong-unâs dictatorship is dealing with the virus with an iron fist after the man was put to his death for dodging quarantine to go to a public bath.
The patient was arrested by officers and immediately shot as the country takes sickening measures to avoid the killer outbreak spreading.
When I tell people I am a transhumanist, it often raises an eyebrow â or several questions. What is transhumanism? What is a âposthumanâ? Why would anyone want to live forever? This article will briefly respond to these questions (amongst others) and consider what this may mean for the education sector. Key questions will be identified in the area of transhumanism and education as four themes are considered: teachers, human hardware, curriculum and lifelong learning. With âtransâ meaning âacrossâ, transhumanism is a âtechnoprogressiveâ socio-political and intellectual movement (Porter, 2017) that involves transforming our primitive human selves into selves enhanced through technology. Transhumanism aims to develop our physical, emotional and cognitive capacities and thus to open up new possibilities and horizons of experience (Thompson, 2017). The end goal is one day to become âposthumanâ: combating ageing and freeing ourselves from current biological limitations.
When you see an unconscious patient in a movie, you sometimes see their thoughts onscreen (like in The 9th Life of Louis Drax, above) or at least hear a voiceover.
That may not entirely stay in science fiction. Adrian Owen, neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and his research team are using brain-computer interfaces with advanced technology to get answers directly from people who canât answer for themselves any other way. Any critical decisions for patients unable to communicate are usually made for them.
What can 3D printing do for medicine? The âsky is the limit,â says Northwell Health researcher Dr. Todd Goldstein.
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The successful delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 modified immune cells to cancer patients represents the first U.S. clinical trial to test the gene editing approach in humans.
Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania have published data suggesting that immune cells modified using the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 are able to survive and function for months following delivery to cancer patients [1].
The research team demonstrated that T cells taken from patients and modified ex vivo (outside the body) can be safely returned to the patient and continue to survive and fight cancer. The cells were successfully edited in three ways: by deleting the TRAC, TRBC, and PDCD1 genes. In addition to these edits, a cancer-specific T cell receptor was inserted to target the NY-ESO-1 antigen to help improve the T cellsâ ability to detect tumors.
Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic â Mexicoâs first cases.
âMexicoâs health secretary confirmed the countryâs first and second case of the coronavirus. Hugo Lopez-Gatell said one of the patients is in Mexico City and the other in the northern state of Sinaloaâ
As of Friday, more than 83,700 cases of coronavirus have been reported, resulting in at least 2,859 deaths.
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Theoretically, workers have been on the fast track to obsolescence since the Luddites took sledgehammers to industrial looms in the early 1800s.
In 1790, 90 percent of all Americans made their living as farmers; today itâs less than 2 percent. Did those jobs disappear? Not exactly. The agrarian economy morphed, first into the industrial economy, next into the service economy, now into the information economy.
Automation produces job substitution far more than it does job obliteration. And even when automation takes hold of a range of professional roles, this doesnât always create the dire results we expect.
In the next decade, designers and consumers will need to radically shift their perspectives on value and commit to a circular economy based on recycling, upcycling, and repurposing what already exists.