Tag Archives: genetic engineering

According to an article on the MIT Technology Review a team of Chinese scientists have performed a genetic modification using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique to delete the CCR5 gene. This deletion should remove a CCR5 receptor on cells membranes removing the point used by the HIV virus to infect the cell. …

Just last month I reported on Vertical farming as an alternative agriculture. Now I saw a news on fully robotised agriculture, looking much more like a factory than a farm. Iron Ox, an appropriate name I would say, a California company based in San Carlo, is demonstrating a completely automated …

3D printing of living cells is no news. It started at the turn of the century as bi-dimensional printing of skin cells to create patch for healing burns and it has evolved becoming capable of printing 3D structures. It is getting more and more sophisticated (more on this tomorrow). Hence …

This Summer I spent a (short) one-week vacation in Jackson Hole, WY, and right in front of the hotel was a strange looking building, several stories high made of steel and glass, with illumination through the day and night in green, blue, magenta and yellow (look at the clip). It …

Transhuman technologies I Human augmentation is a continuous process that has accelerated in the last decade and that is foreseen to accelerate even further in the coming decades with seamless integration of technologies that increase human capabilities and with technologies that modify the genome. Transhuman technologies can be clustered in …

Male pregnancy and artificial womb Technology is pushing the boundary of what is possible, blurring the differences between science and science fiction. This is happening in many areas, although the ones involving us, human beings, are the one most sensitive and more fraught with ethical, legal and societal implications. Male …