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Donated blood used to be good enough if it was free of infection and if it was the same type as the patient's. But now there's another criterion on which it is rated: the age of the donor. When a geneticist published research in 2018, concluding that plasma from young blood improves the physical health of older individuals, every second start-up wannabe took notice. It is claimed that the young blood will, by implication, also counteract the development of age-related diseases like dementia and ...
How does a single embryonic cell grow into the many different cell types that form the basis of organs and physical features? That mystery has now been unlocked by the breakthrough of 2018, tracking development cell by cell.
China is buying distressed private companies as markets sink https://t.co/TUDKj9l1o7— Bloomberg (@business) October 30, 2018
China is buying distressed private companies as markets sink https://t.co/TUDKj9l1o7
Gene editing enters a new stage where first we will seek to heal and next to enhance human longevity, performance and intelligence. Nations like Japan will try to outrun depopulation with gene editing. https://t.co/JDqb6MmYXj— Dr. James Canton (@futureguru) October 7, 2018
Gene editing enters a new stage where first we will seek to heal and next to enhance human longevity, performance and intelligence. Nations like Japan will try to outrun depopulation with gene editing. https://t.co/JDqb6MmYXj
Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells https://t.co/sdnNJq4oIn— ScienceAlert (@ScienceAlert) August 13, 2018
Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells https://t.co/sdnNJq4oIn
Four years ago, we speculated that the rise of cannabis culture in California would spawn a whole new genre of food and drinks, like wine infused with cannabis. Well, a Heineken subsidiary has just launched a non-alcoholic beer, that will get you high, rather than drunk. MindBullets for the win!
In an uncanny parallel to our recent #MindBullet, comes the news that genetic testing company 23andme is partnering with GSK to use data to find new cures for disease.
In the last six years, a bunch of longevity entrepreneurs, or should I say aging researchers, have been seeking the holy grail: a way to slow down or even reverse the aging process. In other words, keep you living longer, and having healthier lives while you do so. For money, of course, but it's a noble purpose, so no-one is complaining. Now prominent geneticist and longevity evangelist Craig Vesper has announced that he has the answer, and it's not a miracle drug, or even modifying your genes, ...
Four years ago we 'predicted' that at some point, Californian wine makers would introduce wine with a touch of cannabis. Well, that is happening this year, but in a quirk we didn't foresee, they are removing the alcohol, so it will be alcohol free but laced with THC.
An old MindBullet we wrote years ago suggested that by 2017, we could have nanobots cleaning our arteries. Well, that was a little optimistic, but now engineers have developed nanobots made from gold nanowires coated with cell membranes that clear toxins and bacteria from blood - powered by ultrasound. So perhaps, in the future, these scenarios will become commonplace!
If you want to exit from a large, EU-based, multinational concern, just sell it to the Chinese. They're buying. Everything. In the last five years, Chinese acquisitions and investments in Europe have tripled, compared to the previous decade. China's 'economic imperialism' in Africa and Latin America is widely recognized and well documented, but its forays into Europe have been more stealthy. Published details of deals to acquire or invest in power and logistics, property and football clubs, are ...
We wanted flying cars. All we got were passenger drones, eventually. We were hoping for limitless fusion energy; instead we got solar panels. Everybody did. The future doesn't always deliver on our hopes and dreams. We dreamed about cheating death, an elixir from the fountain of youth, that would keep us forever young. Instead we have developed CRISPR and stem cells that keep us healthier in old age, but we still get old. That's the thing about the future. Our sci-fi fantasies and high tech ...
The future of genetic modification is designing genomes on a computer, then fabricating them through a synthetic chemical process. At least that's what MIT is suggesting in this article, and why it's important for industrial innovation.And that's exactly the scenario contained in our MindBullet from 2012, when everything is digital, and you can just email or download your genetic information, ...
In 2012 we published a MindBullet about tiny robots constructed from DNA fragments to target cancer at the cellular level. At the time it seemed like real science fiction, but not impossible in the future. Now it's actually happening in the labs, and human trials are likely. Read more at TechCrunch...
We wrote the MindBullet alongside back in 2012, and targeted 2017 as the possible date something similar could happen. Not bad, when you read the story attached!
The WHO (World Health Organization) predicts an increase in illegal surgeries and black-market organ transplants because of the increasing capability of medical microbots. They are designed for patients to swallow, as if it were a pill made out of digestible enzymes. Fitted with tiny microblades or needles, they quickly move to clean blocked arteries, detect disease and treat cancer. Microbots are also useful for delivering medication to specific parts of the body and addressing hormone or metabolic ...
I would hope this could happen even sooner.
Millions of people around the globe suffer from deafness and blindness - but that will soon end; and when it comes to helping the deaf, we have to thank Siri, Apple's digital assistant! Early experiments showed that transplanting stem cells into the eyes of rats with damaged retinas cured blindness. Now scientists are using the same technology to repair diseases which commonly cause deteriorating sight in humans, namely glaucoma, retinal detachment and macular degeneration. In fact, thanks to ...
Years ago - 13 years to be specific, I wrote a MindBullet about a computer virus making the leap to a biological system, and infecting a human. Well, scientists have already demonstrated how one part of that loop could be accomplished. They edited a strand of DNA, coding it with malware that infected the machine designed to decode DNA!DNA is just software, after all... ...
Yes, creating edible protein from electricity just became a reality. Although this was done in the lab, it could be scaled up to produce food for livestock or say, refugees from a shipping container sized 'factory'.
