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Call for Papers: The 21st Century Body Reloaded
Building on the success of last year’s event and the many positive and encouraging comments from participants, this year’s interdisciplinary symposium is convened in order to further build capacity as well as consolidate existing scholarship on perspectives on the human body and identity.
Obama plans to map the brain
US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new initiative to map the brain.Speaking at the White House, he announced an initial $100m investment to shed light on how the brain works and provide insight into diseases such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.
Synthetic Biology: Challenges & Opportunities for the UK
Organised in partnership with BioCentre, Royal Society of Chemistry, Biochemical Society and the University of Bristol this panel discussion and debate explored the science and ethics of synthetic biology and what it means for the UK on 14th November 2012.
Thought leader conference call with Prof Steve Fuller – MP3 now available
The mp3 from BioCentre’s recent conference call with Prof Steve Fuller is now available to download here.
Teleconference with Neil Harbisson
BioCentre’s latest teleconference with Neil Harbisson is now available to listen to online.
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Call for Papers: The 21st Century Body Reloaded
Building on the success of last year’s event and the many positive and encouraging c...
Google launches tool to determine data use after death
Google will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inac...
The Real Limitless Drug Isn’t Just for Lifehackers Anymore
It took Peter Borden a while to come around to modafinil. He never takes prescription drug...
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BioRead  Chimera’s Children: Ethical, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Human–Nonhuman Combinations Those of us who are regularly engaged in the bioethics conversation will remember that 2008 was a particularly significant year in the UK. Parliament debated and passed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which helped to introduce the general public to novel terms such as ‘chimera’, ‘hybrids’ and ‘cybrids’. While they may have been new terms to many the idea of human–nonhuman combinations have a long history dating all the way back to the dog heads of the Middle Ages and the myths of the Minotaur and the centaurs in ancient Greece. |
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Nanotechnology: It has been called the fourth technological revolution with the potential to provide us with the tools to fight gl ...
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man. ... The Google offices on Bonhlll Street in London were thrumming in the early evening on the 22nd of November where Stephen Johnston, ... |
