Jul 12, 2015
What’s Involved In World’s First Head Transplant?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
A patient’s set to undergo the world’s first head transplant. Here’s what’s involved. Read more: http://bit.ly/1FYP4Ep.
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Jul 10, 2015
How Microsoft will radically transform the medical industry
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Jul 9, 2015
Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality
Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He’s looking for companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.
Jul 6, 2015
Construction Project of the Day: Dubai is 3D-Printing an Entire Building
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, futurism
We’ve seen 3D-printed cars and even 3D-printed body organs, but now the city of Dubai plans to use the technology to create an entire office building. Because they are always trying to one-up themselves. Dubai is known around the world for its over-the-top architecture, extreme stunts and attention-grabbing New Year’s Eve light shows.
Jul 2, 2015
Bioengineers develop highly elastic biomaterial for better wound healing
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), led by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, and Nasim Annabi, PhD, of the Biomedical Engineering Division, has developed a new protein-based gel that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the properties of elastic tissue, such as skin and blood vessels. …
Jul 2, 2015
World’s first ‘feeling’ prosthetic leg revealed
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Jun 30, 2015
‘Microswimmer’ robots to drill through blocked arteries within four years
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, futurism, robotics/AI
Drexel’s microswimmer robots (bottom) are modeled, in form and motion, after spiral-shaped Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria (top), which cause Lyme Disease (credit: Drexel University)
Jun 29, 2015
The Crazy Science Behind Self/less’ Consciousness Transfer
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: biotech/medical
In the new movie Self/Less, Ben Kingsley is dying of cancer, so he gets his mind placed into a younger body—that of Ryan Reynolds. You’ve seen this kind of “re-sleeving” before in novels like Altered Carbon, but is it scientifically possible? Here’s a brand new exclusive featurette that says… maybe.
Jun 29, 2015
Africa Is Going To Be Polio-Free Soon
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: biotech/medical
After years of frustrating pushback, Africa may soon be able to declare itself polio-free.
The disease that affects mostly children under 5 and can lead to irreversible paralysis, has been all but wiped out in Africa — except for in Nigeria. There, religious leaders often interfered with vaccination campaigns, but thanks to increased efforts, the country hasnât seen a new polio case since July of last year, NPRâs Goats and Soda reported.
Jun 28, 2015
California Assembly passes mandatory vaccine bill
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: biotech/medical
California’s Assembly on Thursday approved a hotly contested bill requiring that nearly all public schoolchildren be vaccinated, clearing one of its last major legislative obstacles before the measure heads to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.
