the American Express advisory panel choose not to select the life extension research project which was voted into 22nd place among the 25 projects being voted on now. Only 5 will receive funding. Thanks to Those who had voted for the life extension project at the end of August.
Emerging cognitive neuroscience and related technologies written by the National Research Council. Chapter 5: Potential intelligence and military applications Paraphrasing from the executive summary: This area of neuroscience and cognitive enhancement is advancing too quickly for this group to fully track and anticipate disruptive leaps in capability. Chapter 3: Emerging areas of neuroscience and neurotechnology …
13 genes changed in a mouse embryo system, influence the molecular machinery to yield human limb and thumb development patterns. The method used could be applied across the genome to understand at a molecular level what leads to differences between humans and non-human primates. This work relates to transgenic genetic engineering and the possibility of …
1. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved uprates to seven nuclear reactors over the last year, adding a further 249 MWe (2 billion kwh) to overall US nuclear capacity. 2. Researchers have genetically engineered a thermophilic bacterium, meaning it’s able to grow at high temperatures, and this new microorganism makes ethanol as the …
Stable carbon-80 fullerene (C79B) would be an electron short, instead of having an extra electron. There would be the components of a molecular semiconductor. C79N (carbon 80 with one carbon changed to a nitrogen) would have an extra electron. “No one has done anything like this,” said Harry Dorn of Virginia Tech. “Since the article …
Richard Jones (who regularly criticizes molecular nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity] writes about the Singularity in terms of “Faith in Technology” and Scott Aaronson writes about how the “Singularity is Far’ Points in the Richard Jones article that I wanted to respond to:1. Jones: Peak oil could cause a societal collapse and thus prevent/cripple …
MIT and Westinghouse have been working on increasing the power of existing pressure water nuclear reactors by 50%. A test reactor at MIT had successful tests. The technical and economic issues continue to be studied. This presents the economic and technical analysis that are being performed. In 2006, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute started a …
Natural Gas production is going up by a lot in the United States. This was noted at Peak Oil Debunked about a month ago. The peak oil people such as Mike Ruppert and Matt Simmons were saying in 2003 and since then that natural gas production was heading for a sharp decline. Now even some …
China’s Small and Medium Size Enterprises Are to Employment and Economy Chinese enterprises, especially small and medium ones, are facing a harder time because of the combined effects of the global slowdown, tight domestic credit, rising costs and an appreciating yuan. About 67,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) went bankrupt throughout China in the first …
The Carnival of space Week 69 is up at Discovery Free Space by Irene Klotz The carnival is organized in an A to Z format. This site supplied the Z for Zettaflops and other anticipated breakthroughs with materials, fusion energy and more. Colony Worlds had E for energy, which was geothermal enery on other planets …
A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. (Usually from another animal.) Two methods of producing transgenic mice are widely used: – transforming embryonic stem cells (ES cells) growing in tissue culture with the desired DNA;– injecting the desired gene into the pronucleus of a …