Year: 2022

FLEXIBLE SILK ELECTRONICS permit biological applications such as a sense of touch, and heart and mind monitoring, and so much more. Hard and inflexible silicon microelectronics are significantly limiting for human enhancement; this is a vital development. " " http://lnkd.in/TuSZ_8 View in LinkedIn

CROSSING SPECIES BOUNDARIES opens the possible. This is a reality. "Consider, for instance, the print and pictorial publicity surrounding the growth of a human ear on the back of a mouse; the plight of Alba, artist Eduardo Kac’s green-phlorescent-protein bunny stranded in Paris; the birth announcement in Nature of ANDi, the first transgenic primate; and, most recently, the growth of pigs’ teeth in rat intestines, and miniature human kidneys in mice."" " http://lnkd.in/cPxYsA View in LinkedIn

CHIMERIC LIFE FORMS. "Human-to-animal embryonic chimeras are being produced; also human-to-animal fetal or adult chimeras (by grafting human cellular material to late-stage nonhuman fetuses or to postnatal nonhuman creatures); human-to-human embryonic, fetal, or adult chimeras (inserting or grafting exogenous human cellular material to human embryos, fetuses, or adults); animal-to-human embryonic, fetal, or adult chimeras (inserting or grafting nonhuman cellular material to Human embryos, fetuses, or adults)."" " http://lnkd.in/cPxYsA View in LinkedIn

CYBORG HISTORY REVIEW. A light anecdotal view from Brighton UK. " " http://lnkd.in/UvGG34 View in LinkedIn

INTERSPECIES HYBRIDS occur naturally. "Recent genome analyses indicate that natural hybrids are also generated spontaneously between yeasts belonging to distinct species, creating lineages with novel phenotypes, varied genetic stability, or altered virulence in the case of pathogens. Large segmental introgressions from evolutionarily distant species are also visible in some yeast genomes, suggesting that interspecific genetic exchanges occur during evolution."" " http://mmbr.asm.org/content/76/4/721.abstract View in LinkedIn

CROSS SPECIES HYBRIDS in nature by sexual reproduction may not be freak events after all, as genetic analysis overcomes the typical phenotypic subtlety of interspecies hybrids. Gene analysis is a powerful tool to identify the real frequency of hybrids in nature, and it may occur more frequently than 1%. " " http://lnkd.in/vDcmMp View in LinkedIn

INTERSPECIES CHIMERAS have been made by nature at least since the mitochondrion and chloroplast took over plant and animal cells and through extensive lateral gene transfer in many species. This has been called by some a significant driving force in billions of years of evolution -- the creation of genetic hybrids between different species. View in LinkedIn

NATURE has an insatiable appetite for genetic diversity and has devised a seemingly endless number of mechanisms to achieve this goal. New genes, new genetic elements, that can be recombined in organisms, tested by environmental stresses to find new successful attributes to succeed as a species, is the name of the game according to Darwinians. View in LinkedIn

SELFISH GENE VS DARWINISM. "The gene-centered view of evolution, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential survival of competing genes, increasing the frequency of those alleles whose phenotypic effects successfully promote their own propagation, with gene defined as "not just one single physical bit of DNA but all replicas of a particular bit of DNA distributed throughout the world." (Wikipedia). View in LinkedIn

THE FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE? For Darwinians, it is the species. For Selfish Gene followers it is the dazzling gene. For collective consciousnessistas, the meta-species. For old-fashioned biologists, it is the cell. Viruses and jumping transposons are parasitic genetic elements who need a host cell machinery to reproduce, but whose seemingly lifeless animation confounds us. In the end, all these driving units may not be mutually exclusive but yet another Darwinian layer, driven by the burning need for endless propagation of another brilliantly innovative life form. View in LinkedIn