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Aug 19, 2017

Scientists remotely hacked a brain, controlling body movements

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, neuroscience

Imagine someone remotely controlling your brain, forcing your body’s central processing organ to send messages to your muscles that you didn’t authorize. It’s an incredibly scary thought, but scientists have managed to accomplish this science fiction nightmare for real, albeit on a much small scale, and they were even able to prompt their test subject to run, freeze in place, or even completely lose control over their limbs. Thankfully, the research will be used for good rather than evil… for now.

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The effort, led by physics professor Arnd Pralle, PhD, of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, focused on a technique called “magneto-thermal stimulation.” It’s not exactly a simple process — it requires the implantation of specially built DNA strands and nanoparticles which attach to specific neurons — but once the minimally invasive procedure is over, the brain can be remotely controlled via an alternating magnetic field. When those magnetic inputs are applied, the particles heat up, causing the neurons to fire.

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Aug 19, 2017

A nanobot picks up a sperm by the tail and inseminates an egg with it, by the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Germany

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Nanobot picks up sperm by the tail and delivers it to egg.


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Aug 19, 2017

South Korea is building a $10 billion agriculture city in Egypt

Posted by in categories: food, solar power, sustainability

South Korea will oversee the construction of an integrated agriculture city in Egypt which will feature 50,000 smart greenhouses in addition to desalination and solar power plants.

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Aug 19, 2017

Shocking Data Analytics & Mind Control of the Future

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

If Data Analytics and Analysis is being used today to predict and control what we purchase, what we spend our time on and how we vote in political elections, what are its future uses?

This technology will only become more powerful and accurate over time.

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Aug 19, 2017

The new Abraham Lincoln animatronic is so life-like the viewers will feel like they’re in Gettysburg in 1863

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Aug 19, 2017

Dr: Maria Blasco at the recent ILC Sumit in Madrid gives this interesting talk on the progress of telomerase therapy to restore telomere loss, a hallmark of aging

Posted by in category: life extension

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Aug 19, 2017

Silicon Valley is selling an ancient dream of immortality

Posted by in categories: life extension, transhumanism

It is tempting to dismiss scientifically inspired presentiments of immortality as arrant nonsense, but we should not underestimate the way ideas like transhumanism speak powerfully to our unconscious need for delusion. This is not only a new religion that does without God and churches — it also is a marketing strategy for new technology. A novel form of cross-promotion and co-branding, tech evangelism really aims at a deeper and more efficient penetration into the digital marketplace by offering mortality denial in the same package.


Human beings are the only animals to have evolved an insight into their own death.

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Aug 19, 2017

This Powerful New Painkiller Could Be The Unexpected Ticket to Replacing Opioids

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers have developed a new class of pain relief that acts on an obscure nerve pathway, opening the way to a medication just as concerns have deepened around the US opioid addiction and overdose epidemic.

While any marketable pharmaceutical based on the discovery would still need to go through the long process of clinical testing, the compound appears to work as well as other opioid-alternatives, requiring a smaller dose and remaining effective for a longer period.

The research led by scientists from The University of Texas has identified a group of molecules that bind with a pair of nerve receptors, one of which has been a mystery until recently.

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Aug 19, 2017

The U.S. Military Wants to Inject People’s Brains With Painkilling Nanobots That Could Replace Medicine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, military, nanotechnology, neuroscience

Ever wish you could heal yourself like a superhero? The government is making it happen. Sort of.

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Aug 19, 2017

Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

By Aylin Woodward

Injections of vitamin C could be a way to help fight blood cancer. Experiments in mice suggest that the nutrient helps tell out-of-control cells to stop dividing and die.

Some blood cancers, including acute and chronic leukaemia, often involve mutations affecting a gene called TET2. This gene usually helps ensure that a type of stem cell matures properly to make white blood cells, and then eventually dies. But when TET2 mutates, these cells can start dividing uncontrollably, leading to cancer. Mutations in TET2 are involved in around 42,500 cancers in the US a year.

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