transhumanism

Elizabeth Parrish, 44-year-old head of BioViva, a startup active in biotechnology, said she started gene therapy on herself last month in a location she did not disclose: the goal is to directly test solutions that will be able to become cures against Alzheimer's and ...

"What is life?" asks Craig Venter, the man who first mapped the human genome and created the first cell with a synthetic genome. "Only 3 letters are enough to compose a universe of unanswered questions. What separates the animate from the inanimate? What are the basic ingredients of life? ...

With the new technologies of the near future, we will all be able to achieve superintelligence: while you wait there are some things you can do right now to increase intelligence. Sure it will be difficult to become a genius in one fell swoop, but learning skills, mental clarity and mood can be improved. Here ...

Zac Vawter lost his leg in an accident 3 years ago and has since gone through an ordeal in search of a prosthesis (he calls it a 'fake leg') that has satisfactory answers for him that are close to those of a real leg. So the XNUMX-year-old computer engineer from Washington ...

There are about 100 billion neurons in the brain of an adult human being and each of these neurons is connected to hundreds of others for a total of about 150 trillion connections in total. Neuroscience is discovering that it is the pattern of these connections, the structure ...

This is the case of the "nanobots" or microscopic machines (size of about 50 nanometers) that science fiction had imagined in the Star Trek series and which, injected into a patient's circulation, went on site to reconstruct damaged tissues, eliminate pathogens such as viruses and resistant bacteria or even eradicate a cancer ....

It is not the first and it will not be the last. Scientists from the University of Groningen (Holland) and the Empa Research Center (Switzerland) have created a nanometric transport system equipped with four motor units (translation: a "namomachine"). It is electric, four nanometers long and every half turn of the wheels must do the ...

Death is the end of everything. Our brain, although it has worked well for many decades, at the time of our departure from the world, in just about twenty minutes undergoes anoxia and neurons and synapses fall apart. No car, after such damage, will be in ...

Day after day this ambitious goal is starting to become reality thanks to the advances in biomedical research. For several years, researchers have believed that the cells most damaged by aging, called "senescent", damage the surrounding tissue causing many of the pathologies characteristic of old age.These cells, which due to the damage of time ...

Time passes, technologies and methods improve, and things that just seemed impossible are surprisingly at hand: it is appropriate to say, given the incredible new bionic arm born from the collaboration between the American universities of Pittsburgh and John Hopkins. It is a leap ...

The Swedish neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson has shown that the image that our brain has of the body can be 'negotiated'.

A new generation of LED contact lenses could make the 'bionic sight' dream come true. A research team has made a prototype of it.