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That viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real someday.

Posted on May 23, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

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May

Aging bypass What is certain is that head transplantation—or body transplant, as some prefer to call it—is a subject of growing, if speculative, interest in longevity circles, the kind inhabited by biohackers, techno-anarchists, and others on the fringes of biotechnology and the startup scene and who form the most dedicated cadre of extreme life-extensionists. Many […]

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Everything dies, including information | MIT Technology Review

Posted on October 26, 2022 by

26
Oct

Quite a bit, according to the experts. For one thing, what we think is permanent isn’t. Digital storage systems can become unreadable in as little as three to five years. Librarians and archivists race to copy things over to newer formats. But entropy is always there, waiting in the wings. “Our professions and our people […]

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How scientists want to make you young again

Posted on October 25, 2022 by

25
Oct

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some of the cells underwent an unexpected and astounding transformation: they became young again. They turned into stem cells almost identical to the kind […]

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Inside the enigmatic minds of animals

Posted on October 24, 2022 by

24
Oct

In stating his ambition to “explore their senses to better understand their lives,” Yong is true to his word. A longtime staffer for the Atlantic, he has an Attenborough-like talent for excavating simple stories from the unbounded mess of the natural world. A look at the eyes of scallops, for example, becomes a window through […]

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Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

Posted on October 18, 2022 by

18
Oct

Scripted bits like this sounded stilted and strange, but as we moved on, with my mother recounting memories and speaking in her own words, “she” sounded far more relaxed and natural. Still, this conversation and the ones that followed were limited—when I tried asking my mum’s bot about her favorite jewelry, for instance, I got: […]

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Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died

Posted on October 14, 2022 by

14
Oct

The environment was something of a shift for Drake, who had spent the previous seven years as the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Though it was the longtime leader in cryonics, Alcor was still a small nonprofit. It had been freezing the bodies and brains of its members, with the idea […]

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How AI could be used to make life and death decisions

Posted on October 13, 2022 by

13
Oct

By the 2000s, an algorithm had been developed in the US to identify recipients for donated kidneys. But some people were unhappy with how the algorithm had been designed. In 2007, Clive Grawe, a kidney transplant candidate from Los Angeles, told a room full of medical experts that their algorithm was biased against older people […]

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The system, previously used to return circulation to severed pigs’ brains, can now restore some functions of cells across other vital organs

Posted on August 3, 2022 by

03
Aug

They then tested OrganEx’s efficacy by comparing pigs treated with it with pigs hooked up to a more traditional machine that hospitals use to save the lives of patients with severe heart and lung conditions by restoring their circulation, a process called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The organs treated with the OrganEx were found to […]

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Donald Trump’s online fans are contradicting and confusing each other

Posted on June 29, 2022 by

29
Jun

Spoiler alert: our annual Innovators Under 35 list isn’t actually about what a small group of smart young people have been up to (although that’s certainly part of it.) It’s really about where the world of technology is headed next. As you read about the problems this year’s winners have set out to solve, you’ll […]

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That viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real someday.

Technology

Everything dies, including information | MIT Technology Review

Technology

How scientists want to make you young again

Technology

Inside the enigmatic minds of animals

Technology

Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

Technology

Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died

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How AI could be used to make life and death decisions

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The system, previously used to return circulation to severed pigs’ brains, can now restore some functions of cells across other vital organs

Technology

Donald Trump’s online fans are contradicting and confusing each other

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