New Harvest - Advancing Meat Substitutes
Posted on January 24th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, words, biology, socio.
New Harvest is a non profit organization dedicated to the development of vat grown industrial meat analogue.
One novel line of research is to produce meat in vitro, in a cell culture, rather than from an animal. The production of such “cultured meat” begins by taking a number of cells from a farm animal and proliferating them in a nutrient�rich medium. Cells are capable of multiplying so many times in culture that, in theory, a single cell could be used to produce enough meat to feed the global population for a year.
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This is your brain on the future
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio.
A recent article in New Scientist asks
Such tinkering is disdained [at least overtly] in the world of sport, but in the marketplace?
What if there was a surgery you could have that would triple your income?
implants anyone? Helpful little machines in your head?
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Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio, borg.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging renders blood flow to brain zones.
In this study it appears that our brains work differently when we remember facts about our lives than when we re-live experiences, as in the mimesis of shared recollection.
Affect specified.
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urchin spines
Posted on November 18th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology.
Imagine enormous urchin organisms constructing single crystal girders and parts on demand. Digital interfaces program cell masses to exact specifications. With standard tools we extend outselves mechanically. Why not build ourselves external organs, life processors, extend ourselves biologically?
precision realized from an amorphous substrate.
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feedback loop?
Posted on November 16th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio, borg.
From an article in the New York Times, an interview with an experimental psychologist at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Mind and Biology:
“My part involves looking at psychological and social factors that might change the genes…”
-Dr. Margaret McClintock, NY Times, Nov 16/04
This is the level of feedback we need to be talking.
Any sufficiently advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from biology.
Today we also have Dr. Kevin Warwick [he of the implanted RFID] warning that computer viruses might well infect people.
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Posted on June 30th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology.
Mutant Vegetables for dinner please.
via fark
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kill em all
Posted on June 19th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology.
Here is some interesting information about the Slaughter of livestock.
I was looking up how you kill an ostrich. What you do is shock its head with tongs and then bleed it.
Buffalo get a less formal treatment.
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wHAT IS IT?
Posted on February 8th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology.
SCIENTISTS have successfully bred a first-generation genetically modified terminator fish
Doom? or salvation?
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Water Retention
Posted on February 1st, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio.
A biotech company is moving into medical production with a new variety of transgenic rice.
The possibilities for growing drugs in plants - dubbed “pharming” - have been researched for years, with scientists developing a wide range of vaccines and other medicines in several common foods in the laboratory. But now Ventria Bioscience, based in Sacramento, is to break new ground by planting 130 acres with two new varieties of GM rice that will produce lactoferrin and lysozyme, infection-fighting chemicals that it will market for use in oral rehydration products to treat severe diarrhoea.
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Innards
Posted on February 1st, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology.
Technoshamanic totem animal abstract.
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teeny pointed head
Posted on October 15th, 2003 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology.
A Purple frog with a teeny pointed head has been discovered in India.
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