How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions
• https://www.ted.com, Jim Al-KhaliliHow does a robin know to fly south?
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The Rhodope Skull: Skull Was it a True ALIEN ?
• https://www.youtube.com, UFOvni2012The Rhodope Skull: Skull Was it a True ALIEN ?
Mid-surgery sax solo sounds success for retaining musical ability
• http://newatlas.com, Michael IrvingAn operating theater isn't somewhere you'd normally expect to see someone belt out a saxophone solo, and even if you did, you wouldn't peg the player to be the patient lying on the table with their brain exposed.
IGN News - Harvard Scientists Create First Cyborg Flesh
• youtube.comA bioengineering team at Harvard University has created the world's first hybrid of living cells and electronic components.
From Next Month, Turkey Will Stop Teaching Evolution in The School Curriculum
• http://www.sciencealert.com, MIKE MCRAEApparently, evolution is too hard for kids.
Meet 'Dark DNA' - The Hidden Genes That May Change How We Think About Evolution
• http://www.sciencealert.com, ADAM HARGREAVESSooo weird.
WHAT IT TAKES TO HOLD YOUR BREATH FOR 24 MINUTES (YEAH, IT'S A THING)
• https://www.wired.comWHEN ALEIX SEGURA holds his breath, he thinks about his heart. On land, the focus causes his heart rate to increase--but underwater, it has the opposite effect.
99 percent of the microbes inside us are unknown to science
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangA survey of DNA fragments circulating in the blood suggests the microbes living within us are vastly more diverse than previously known. In fact, 99 percent of that DNA has never been seen before.
Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg
• http://www.telegraph.co, Sarah KnaptonHuman life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing 'fireworks' on film.
Genetic enhancement will be many times more powerful than steroids
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangClinical trials of CRISPR gene editing, when they start this year (2017), will edit existing cells in adults using an injection of a viral vector.
Stem cells activated to make hair grow in mice
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangUCLA researchers have discovered a new way to activate the stem cells in the hair follicle to make hair grow (in mice).
Daniel Kraft on Singularity Medicine
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDaniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and innovator.
Viome for managing your microbiome
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangThere are approximately 40 trillion microorganisms living in your gut. They help you digest your food, produce beneficial and harmful chemicals, control infections by pathogens, regulate your immune system, and even control your emotions (ever have a
CRISPR is used to eliminate toxic RNA which could treat RNA related diseases
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangCRISPR DNA editing is allowing correction of many diseases. But many other diseases are linked to RNA. Biotech startup Locana is using the power of CRISPR to develop treatments for disease caused by RNA.
Scientists Use CRISPR Gene Editing Tool To Manipulate Behavior In Ants
• https://www.technocracy.news, By: Phys.org staffThis GMO operation (using CRISPR technology) is permanently changing the germline of these ants and with the specific purpose of changing their social behavior. Technocrats do not consider ethics or unfavorable outcomes that will surely occur. ? TN
Scientists create the first mutant ants
• washingtonpost.com By Ben GuarinoDespite what you might've seen in 1950s monster movies, it's difficult to raise mutant ants.
Klotho longevity hormone helped make mice smarter
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangA shot of klotho, a hormone associated with longevity, seems to make mice smarter. Klotho is a naturally occurring hormone in the body. More than two decades ago, Japanese researchers discovered that this hormone plays a role in aging.
Flesh-Eating Bugs Seriously Messed Up This Teen's Legs After a Casual Beach Dip
• http://www.sciencealert.com, JACINTA BOWLERWhat the hell, Australia.
DNA synthesis of virus and bacteria sequences could become a biological teleporter
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangSynthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) has a cartful of equipment which they call a biological teleporter. The equipment can print out the entire DNA for a virus or a bacteria in a completely automated process.
In US first, scientists edit genes of human embryos
• http://www.nydailynews.com, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFor the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases.
It looks like we're one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab
• http://www.popsci.com, By Sara ChodoshThe first CRISPR-edited embryos have been produced in the U.S.
Gene therapy cures Duchenne muscular dystrophy in dogs
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an incurable X-linked muscle-wasting disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene.
Ancient humans had sex with non humans
• nzherald.co.nzNew research shows that ancient humans had sex with non human species.
Google Robot factory raises sterile mosquitos, automated device will release a million...
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangGoogle Robot factory raises sterile mosquitos, automated device will release a million per week
This 3D-Printed, Soft Artificial Heart Beats Just Like a Real One
• http://www.sciencealert.com, DAVID NIELDMade-to-measure organs.
20 Million Mosquitoes to Hit Fresno; That's a Good Thing, Really
• https://www.bloomberg.com, By Caroline ChenA giant technology company will release up to 20 million bacteria-filled, buzzing mosquitoes this summer in Fresno, California.
America's First Free-Roaming Genetically Engineered Insects To Release In New York
• https://www.technocracy.news, By: Kristen V. BrownAnd away we go… Moths with a genetically modified kill switch to be released into the wild. The words 'likely' and 'unlikely' are used repeatedly to justify the release: 'unlikely to impact the environment or humans' and 'likely kille
This Silicon Valley company wants to 'make better humans' through biohacking
• http://www.cnbc.com, Uptin SaiidiMichael Brandt has all the resume highlights that tech entrepreneurs dream of: Stanford grad, ex-Google employee and an Andreessen Horowitz backing for his startup.
DNA from sharks that can live up to 400 years could hold secret to a longer life
• http://www.mirror.co, BYJOHN VON RADOWITZScientists have been examining Greenland sharks - some of which were born in the 1750s
10-fold speed up for the reconstruction of neuronal networks
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangScientists working in „connectomics", a research field occupied with the reconstruction of neuronal networks in the brain, are aiming at completely mapping of the millions or billions of neurons found in mammalian brains.
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