Category: Uncategorized

HISTORIC reminder of a day the world changed, May 27, 2013. "While researchers at Duke Univ. have demonstrated brain-to-brain communication between two rats, and Harvard researchers have demonstrated it between a human and a rat, Rao and Stocco believe this is the first demonstration of human-to-human brain interfacing". " " http://lnkd.in/-9n3jP View in LinkedIn

3D PRINTED FOOD competition looks like junk food just won. " " http://www.brit.co/ View in LinkedIn

ET SEARCHES are finally warming up. Searching for ET is not just a J Craig Venter dream, but also that of Jonathan Rothberg, founder of the genome sequencing company Ion Torrent. "Rothberg said Ion Torrent is working with Harvard and MIT to modify the company’s personal genome machine for use on Mars as part of a NASA-funded project called SET-G, or “the search for extraterrestrial genomes.” SET-G, however, is mainly searching for native Martian life as opposed to space platypuses."" " http://lnkd.in/jHhmbV. View in LinkedIn

3D PRINTED ASTRO-FOOD. I have to be a little skeptical here. Cooking is something I take seriously. Unless this is limited to some god-awful pizza, it is very hard to imagine replicating the demanding preparation of decent food on a mere printer. Think hard before volunteering for NASA!" " http://lnkd.in/VDxnZM View in LinkedIn

GETTING FLIP. "We know there’s a space platypus there following the Martian rover,” Venter...said. “What we need to do now is use this opportunity to finally get its DNA, rebuild it in the lab, and figure out how they work. Capturing these little critters are near impossible so we have to get creative. We can rebuild the Martians in a P-4 spacesuit lab instead of capturing them and having them land in the ocean.”" " http://lnkd.in/jHhmbV. View in LinkedIn

FOOD 3D PRINTER. "The Atomium develops meals based on the users’ desires of flavor and shape of their food. The kids show a sketch or an object to create the desired aesthetic meal. Atomium will recognize this object/sketch by scanning it and then print it, choosing molecular ingredients to construct nutritional balance for user´s body, based on user´s medical data". April Fool's joke or not? " " http://3dprintinginsider.com/atomium-3d-food-printer-will-help-children-of-the-future-prepare-healthy-meals_b9313 View in LinkedIn

EPA Quietly Withdraws Two Proposed Chemical Safety Rules. " " http://huff.to/1fGbKg2 via @HuffPostPol View in LinkedIn

SMART LABELS combining microelectronics, memory and sensors. “the potential of this is way beyond being able to make just a smart label. … You look back at the early days of computing, (when) people weren’t exactly sure what computers could do for you. Is it really going to go in your mobile phone? Is it really going to go into your eyeware? And now it has.”" " http://lnkd.in/SnD6QG View in LinkedIn

RADICAL THINKING is so refreshing after decades of the twittering mealy-mouths. "We are building a self-learning robot that can learn biology 10,000 times faster than a scientist can. It can learn from the iterative experiments and make the changes and redo them."(J Craig Venter, of course). " " http://lnkd.in/G9dXqP. View in LinkedIn

A THOUGHT LEADER IS OPTIMISTIC. "Venter also comments on what we can expect in the future. "We are going to learn fundamental biology faster than it was ever thought possible."" " http://lnkd.in/G9dXqP View in LinkedIn