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Ethics Of Embryo Editing Paper Divides Scientists : Nature News & Comment
The benefits to humanity justify apparently unethical scientific research
The research should continue. The benefits to humanity will be enormous. Preventing or curing genetic defects, increasing lifespan, improving intelligence, editing out mental illness... the possibilities are endless. Concerns about ethics in the use of stem cells and human…
Synthetic Analog Computation In Living Cells : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Synthetic biology
A central goal of synthetic biology is to achieve multi-signal integration and processing in living cells for diagnostic, therapeutic and biotechnology applications. Digital logic has been used to build small-scale circuits, but other frameworks may be needed for efficient…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
A single bio-electronic body
All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. In one way this will enable the individual to extend himself anywhere without moving his body—even to distant regions of space. But this will…
A human body is like a whirlpool
our bodily cells, and their smallest components, appear and disappear much as light-waves vibrate and as people go from birth to death. A human body is like a whirlpool; there seems to be a constant form, called the whirlpool, but it functions for the very reason (that no water…
Toward An Ontological Treatment Of Disease And Diagnosis
Disease vs disorder
Disease: A disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism. Epilepsy as a disease that disposes to the occurrence of seizures (pathological processes) due to an underlying abnormality in the…
True Structure: Zigzag®
Zig Zag data structure
We believe this is the most general data structure, able to replace tables, arrays, spreadsheet and relational database, and intrinsically offering built-in visualizations and hands-on controls. That structure we call zzstructure, or hyperthogonal structure. Like a table it is…