Month: September 2022

ADDICTION MOLECULES. “We can identify viral-derived addiction modules in every toxin/antitoxin, restriction/modification or insertion/deletion modules in which former competing viral clouds are now immunologically balanced.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

VIRAL-DRIVEN SPECIATION. “Most evolutionarily novel derived species are the result of changed and expanded genomic identities caused by persistent viral colonization.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

VIRAL HOST EDITING SYSTEMS. “There are ”linguistic“ competences of viruses and virus-derived viral parts (e.g. env, gag, pol), which not only regulate all cellular processes, but edit the genetic content of living organisms.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

DIVERSITY. “This viral genetic text-editing competence depends on living organisms that are different from each other, and it therefore needs a biotic matrix to expand this competence.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

INTERACTING GENOMES. “Without living and interacting organisms and cells, genomic creativity would only be a possibility that is restricted to mere RNA combinatorial events (in an early pre-cellular RNA world), which has no relevance to the generation of a biosphere.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second weekend focused on the impact of viral gene editing of their host genomes and the contribution of this to speciation in many lineages. This puts viruses at the forefront of evolutionary drivers. But such a paradigm shift will take decades more to filter down to general acceptance. We still live in an era where the debate as to whether viruses can be thought of alive or not is an active discussion. Science vigorously resists paradigm shifts. View in LinkedIn

HUMAN BRAIN INTERFACES. We have seen demonstrations of human to machine, rat-to-rat, monkey-to-Avatar, monkey-to-monkey interfaces. Now, we look at human-to-human and human-to-animal interfaces. View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-TO-RAT INTERFACE. "Non-Invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface (BBI): Establishing Functional Links between Two Brains. The implementation was aimed to non-invasively translate the human volunteer’s intention to stimulate a rat’s brain motor area that is responsible for the tail movement." https://lnkd.in/d4zKZAS View in LinkedIn

HUMAN CONTROLLING RAT TAIL. "Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail." https://lnkd.in/szMWAu View in LinkedIn

HUMAN TO RAT HARVARD STUDY. "Using six different human subjects and six different rat subjects, the team achieved a success rate of 94 percent, with a time delay of 1.59 ± 1.07 seconds between user intention and the rat's response. This isn't the first time brain-to-brain communication has been successfully achieved with rats. Earlier this year, Miguel Nicolelis at the Duke University Medical Center developed a BBI that allowed rats to transmit their thoughts to each other." https://lnkd.in/df-QbyV View in LinkedIn