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BRAIN INCOGNITO. “Scientists have recorded the brain adapting far faster than it's physically possible to make new connections, hinting at hidden wiring or some other automatic-interaction system that allows for rapid reprogramming.” https://lnkd.in/d9Xm__C View in LinkedIn

FLIGHTS OF FANCY. “Recent work by Pentagon’s advanced research arm DARPA was able to show how that a 55-year-old quadriplegic woman with electrodes in her brain could fly a F35 fighter jet by the power of her thoughts.” https://lnkd.in/dfnb2e2 View in LinkedIn

EMOTIV machine control, video. https://lnkd.in/dqX9YSA View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL EARRINGS. “Technology that allows digital information to directly intervene on the brain’s neural network. By clipping an earring-shaped electrode to the top of your ear cartilage, digital data is allowed to enter your field of view. In the future year 2037, it has become a very common technology that protagonist Pollon and company use to collect information in real time or perform hacking.” https://lnkd.in/d2bbpVf View in LinkedIn

HUMAN DEMO. “We demonstrated that real-time control of the robotic arm only through the subjects’ thought processes was possible using the rtfMRI-based BMI trials.” (BMI = brain-machine interface). https://lnkd.in/drvMbxa View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends contemplating the genetic origin of protein diversity in organisms and its consequences. This mechanism is at the heart of generating protein diversity from a relatively small deck of genetic cards, and thus, is at the heart of the capacity to evolve and develop new functionality from different structures. By constantly varying the structures of core motifs, new protein functions can be found by trial and error. Whether there is any statistical bias will reveal whether life can be capable of directing its own evolution in a goal-oriented manner. View in LinkedIn

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING "produces multiple mRNAs from the same gene through variable selection of splice sites during pre-mRNA splicing. It plays a key regulatory role in modulating gene expression during development and in response to environmental signals." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138512001276 View in LinkedIn