Enhanced Humans and Biotech
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DNA is the software of life, and our ability to code it is getting exponentially better – for better and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF All of life was created using just two strands of DNA with 4 nucleotides, so what could we achieve with…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cortical implants and Brain Machine Interfaces have come along way in just a few years, now Elon Musk says soon…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Human-on-a-Chip technologies could dramatically accelerate drug testing and get vital drugs into the market faster to save lives. Interested…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today if you want to see how effective a drug is at killing Cancer you have to rely on human…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Putting humans into suspended animation would give surgeons more time to operate on critical patients, and help us colonise far…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today there is a huge shortage of human donor organs so researchers are trying to create Human-Animal chimeras to help…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As technology gets better, cheaper, and smaller, researchers are now getting to the point where they can create brain reading…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People who are in need of organ transplants often have to wait for someone else to pass away, this latest…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to identify pathogens and disease at the DNA level in real time has huge advantages – especially during…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Consciousness is still one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries, and scientists are getting closer to unravelling its secrets. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Of course ethically there will never be any substitute for real exercise, but new gene therapies are pushing our thinking…
