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Homo Syntheticus, Phase I: synthetic genomes arrive
…sooner than I expected. Today smokestacks, tomorrow bronchii: Progress in creating artificial virus. I’m just sayin’… Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012The post Homo Syntheticus, Phase I: synthetic...
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Homo Syntheticus: synthetic DNA from synthetic oligonucleotides
Not just a sci-fi fantasy… Generating a synthetic genome by whole genome assembly: φX174 bacteriophage from synthetic oligonucleotides Abstract We have improved upon the methodology and dramatically...
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The Singularity Summit 2009: Coming to NYC in October!
First used in its current sense by mathematician and scifi writer Vernor Vinge in 1993, and introduced to popular culture by technology futurist Ray Kurzweil 1n 2005, the Singularity is the...
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Artificial Life: Cell on a Chip
In Technology Review: Cell on a Chip, Lauren Gravitz reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, have created the first artificial cellular organelle. This “cell on a...
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Breaking News! Transhumans descend on NYC! Designs unknown!
Well, OK, that would be Transhumanists. And yes, we’ll be converging on NYC with grand designs, but there’s nothing evil afoot. We’ll be here on May 14-15 2011 for the Transhumanism Meets Design...
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Familiar but strange: Humanoid robots, virtual actors, and the Uncanny Valley
From science fiction and academia through assembly lines and telemedicine, robots have become both conceptually and physically ubiquitous. Technologically, robotics technology has advanced dramatically...
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