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2018-08-29

Inside the slimy underground hunt for humanity’s antibiotic saviour

Faced with an onslaught of new, drug-resistant superbugs, determined scientists are venturing into the depths of the Earth in search of rare and unusual bacteria that may form the basis of tomorrow’s antibiotics. …the true function of such metabolites in nature may be to act as a form of language between bacteria, enabling them to communicate […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / antibiotics, Biology, Citizen Science, Competition, Cooperation, Domesticating DNA, extremophiles, horizontal gene transfer, Microbial life Leave a Comment

2017-08-06

Programming cells with computer-like logic

Novel RNA nano-devices in living cells can sense and analyze multiple complex signals for future synthetic diagnostics and therapeutics The frontier of biology, DNA and computation is developing at an accelerating rate – the future of computation is deeply entangled with the mind-machine interface and even integration – the boundaries between technology biology are blurring. […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / biotechnology, Complexity, Computational Biology, Digital Ecologies, Digital Environment, Domesticating DNA, values Leave a Comment

2017-04-03

50 Grand Challenges for the 21st Century

We asked experts from the world of science and technology to describe the societal challenges that they think matter in 2017 and beyond.   Over the past month, Future Now has been covering the “grand challenges” we face as a society in a series of articles, videos and graphics. We polled a panel of people […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / AI, Bio-Technology, Complexity, Domesticating DNA, Foresight, Future Challenges, Governance, Internet of things, politics, Privacy, Regulation, Science, Security, technology, values Leave a Comment

2017-03-12

Welcome to Pleistocene Park

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths. A longish read there’s a 60 min audio version available and a 26 min video. Pleistocene Park is named for the geological epoch that ended only 12,000 years ago, having begun 2.6 […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Biology, De-Extinction, Domesticating DNA, Earth-as-art-project, Future, geoengineering, Science, Terra-formation, values Leave a Comment

2017-03-03

Researchers store computer operating system and short movie on DNA

Domesticating DNA has many affordances. “DNA won’t degrade over time like cassette tapes and CDs, and it won’t become obsolete—if it does, we have bigger problems,” Humanity may soon generate more data than hard drives or magnetic tape can handle, a problem that has scientists turning to nature’s age-old solution for information-storage—DNA. In a new […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Bio-Computing, Bio-Information, Computing, Data Storage, Domesticating DNA, Future Human, Information, Memory Leave a Comment

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