VirtualBody

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An analysis on just how far we've come in our ability to facilitate evolution at a genetic level. We may even be creating our own code.!!

Explores the current work to automate the process of creating proteins from dna for better and faster biology research

Fantastic lecture on the problems of current copyright law and how it could be changed. 

Entrepreneurs see life as a game and enjoy the challenge. Wouldn't it be better to nurture this instead of inhibit it.

A talk exploring the idea that cancer is related to injury of some sort. Cancer cells may arise to fix the injury but the the process goes wrong. Muscle cells cover 50% of the body yet almost never get cancer. Why? Eva takes us through her findings from investigating these links. 

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.

Grainne Conole OU London, UK

Brilliant example of making learning interesting. Consider infection from the point of view of the pathogen. Create your own virus or bacteria and infect a host human.  Really fun and interesting.

Here now, for distributing far and wide, is a list of common misconceptions surrounding "Folk Neuroscience" - a term clinical and neuropsychologist Vaughan Bell uses to describe the imprecise, "sometimes wildly inaccurate," concepts that are commonly used to explain the brai

In a stunning first for neuroscience, researchers have created an electronic link between the brains of two rats, and demonstrated that signals from the mind of one can help the second solve basic puzzles in real time - even when those animals are separated by thousands of miles.

'Google Map' of human metabolism could pave way for new medical treatments

Short-term memory is formed and lost far too quickly for it to be explained by any (known) kind of synaptic plasticity. So how does it work? British mathematicians Samuel Johnson and colleagues say they have the answer: Robust Short-Term Memory without Synaptic Learning.

The power of the mind and its ability to affect physical change may shock you! Find out how simply imagining can make it so. Read more at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/01/20/the-scientific-power-of-thought-video/#S2wUp5Iqd66EI0sg.99 

When the company behind the gesture technology in the Kinect came to CES a year ago to show how its 3D sensors can enable people to control their TVs with simple gestures, its execs talked about how their sensors eventually would be embedded in mobile devices, opening up a range of possible applications. PrimeSense's new 3D sensor, called Capri, is 10 times smaller than its current sensor and, according to the company, the smallest in the world. The design, says PrimeSense, allows for improved capabilities that it says will soon find its way into PCs, tablets, laptops, phones, various robots, and much more.

Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Electrical engineer Todd Coleman at the University of California at San Diego is devising noninvasive means of controlling machines via the mind, techniques virtually everyone might be able to use

"Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have developed a model that makes predictions from which differentiated cells - for instance skin cells - can be very efficiently changed into completely different cell types - such as nerve cells, for example. This can be done entirely without stem cells. These computer-based instructions for reprogramming cells are of huge significance for regenerative medicine"

"lack of sleep can have some not so great effects on our bodies. It decreases things like cognitive performance, increases anxiety, and…it's not good for our waistlines. Sleep loss is associated with higher caloric intake, when you can't sleep you eat. But does this increased caloric intake translate to weight gain?"

Modeling can support critical decisions across the therapeutic lifecycle, sustaining target progression through to approval.

"The brain appears to be wired more like the checkerboard streets of New York City than the curvy lanes of Columbia, Md., suggests a new brain imaging study. The most detailed images, to date, reveal a pervasive 3D grid structure with no diagonals, say scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health."