New technology developed for the large-scale editing of DNA
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 15. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
While scientists have long had the ability to edit individual genes, it is a slow, expensive and hard to use process. Now researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed technologies, which they liken to the genetic equivalent of the find-and-replace function of a word processing program, that allow them to make large-scale edits to a [...]
Let’s reconstitute humans from genomes launched into space!
Posted by admin in Future, Space on 17. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival, spawning the first interstellar citizens and avoiding the problems of long-distance space survival. That’s just one idea — proposed by genome pioneer J. Craig Venter — emerging from the field of dreams seeded by DARPA’s 100-Year Starship project. DARPA is collecting [...]
2020: a look forward to the promises of a truly amazing year
Posted by admin in Future on 28. Apr, 2011 | 1 Comment
Get ready for the first complete synthetic human brain, moon mining, and much more Future Cities! In the year 2020, cars will fly, cities will power themselves with sunlight, biofuels, and minerals mined from the moon, computers will be more powerful than the human brain, and everything will be a touchscreen! Perhaps. Robotic moon bases, [...]
As if Quantum Teleportation Weren’t Spooky Enough, Physicists Propose ‘Time Teleportation’
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 19. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Time Teleportation, Neatly Graphed and Color-Coded As if the idea ideas of quantum entanglement and time travel weren’t difficult enough to wrap one’s head around separately, two physicists at the Universtiy of Queensland in Australia have further compounded the headache by merging the two ideas via a new kind of quantum entanglement that links particles [...]
Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 11. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Biostorage: Storing Bytes in Bacteria Just one gram of bacteria could store as much information as 450 2,000-gigabyte hard drives in its DNA, a Hong Kong research team says. E. coli gets a bad rap – probably due to the violent illness it induces – but a group of Chinese University students in Hong Kong [...]
