Michael Kope George Church Jeanne Loring [scripps] Brock Reeve [harvard stem cell] George Church thinks technology will impact. Gene therapy will fix the most sick first but then spread to other diseases and then to dual use sickness and health-longevity. Social and issues about difference in life expectancy. 14 year difference in life expectancy between …
In new estimates, WHO (World Health Organization) reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died – one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Reducing air …
A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads. Arunachalam Muruganantham’s invention came at great personal cost – he nearly lost his family, his money and his place in society. In …
Transatomic Power (TAP) is developing an advanced molten salt reactor that generates clean, passively safe, proliferation-resistant, and low-cost nuclear power. This reactor can consume the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) generated by commercial light water reactors or use freshly mined uranium at enrichment levels as low as 1.8% U-235. It achieves actinide burnups as high as …