epub |eng | | Author:James D. Miller [D. Miller, James]

DANGEROUS BUT EFFECTIVE COGNITIVE-ENHANCING DRUGS Dangerous but effective cognitive-enhancement drugs would create a much less drug-friendly political situation. Imagine, for example, that a powerful stimulant would “overclock” a user’s brain, ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Steve Fuller & Veronika Lipinska [Fuller, Steve & Lipinska, Veronika]

sity of At the level of rhetoric, and often substance, contemporary transhumanism presents itself as advancing, if not accelerating, ‘evolution’. (The term is put in scare quotes to encourage the ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Nessa Carey [Carey, Nessa]

Figure 12.4 The dots represent the positions of protein-coding genes in the nucleus. If genes were positioned in the nucleus solely as a function of their position on chromosomes, we ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Smith, Jeffrey [Smith, Jeffrey]

William Freese “Contrary to popular opinion, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate GE foods. Instead, the FDA has a ‘voluntary consultation’ process that allows biotechnology companies to ...

mobi |eng | 2003-09-02 | Author:Smith, Jeffrey [Smith, Jeffrey]

Chapter 6 Rolling The Dice With Allergies When her one-year-old daughter developed an allergy to milk in February 1998, a leading British surgeon did what many other mothers do: she ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...

epub |eng | 2004-08-23 | Author:Elaine Dewar [Dewar, Elaine]

In spite of the fact that he had mostly supported himself, the idea that biological science is a public endeavor, rather than a private pleasure to satisfy private curiosity, was ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Tim Spector [SPECTOR, TIM]

Willpower and marshmallows Jenny and Florence looked very similar but were always fighting. Until we first tested them at the age of 40 they had no idea they were identical ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:Christopher Kinkaid [Kinkaid, Christopher]

Photo-periods are vital to growing algae. The diurnal day-night cycle is a fundamental influence on how algae evolved. Photoperiods have dramatic impacts on the life-cycle of algae and each species ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-14 | Author:Aubrey de Grey

Know Your Enemy Today, for the first time in history, we are in the position to design such drugs on a rational basis. Just over a decade ago, when Peter ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Cornish-Bowden, Athel [Cornish-Bowden, Athel]

Figure 9.9. A mutase is a particular case of an isomerase that catalyzes the transposition of a group (typically a phospho group) from one position to another in the same ...

epub |eng | | Author:Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott

Chapter 12 What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? One more defect and they could not have existed. —George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Hence we conceive of the ...

mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Anthes, Emily [Anthes, Emily]

7. Robo Revolution In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an unusual field agent: a cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the furry feline into an ...