Indulge my Conspiracy moment !
Kyros has a post below about Digital DNA , And how the Pentagon is working on developing it for use against Hackers ( As A Tracer )
Then I Read About This Skin cell to nerve cell piece , right after .
All I'm sayin is , They're Coming !
Business week
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists at Stanford University have succeeded in creating brain nerve cells directly out of skin cells taken from the tails of adult mice.
The new approach could revolutionize human stem cell therapy and science's understanding of how cells choose and maintain their specialized roles in the body, the researchers said.
The findings also seem to radically upturn established thinking about how cells become cells, and potentially avoid the controversial approach of using embryonic stem cells for cellular therapy. And the research could conceivably open new doors in the future to treating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the researchers said.
The researchers had not actually expected to succeed in the endeavor.
"We were blown away," said Dr. Marius Wernig, senior author of a paper appearing online Jan. 27 in Nature and a member of Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
"We wanted to ask the question, 'Do we have to go back in development to be able to go forward or can there be a direct way,' " he said, adding, "This is the first direct conversion that is totally artificial. It doesn't occur in nature."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Scientists Turn Mouse Skin Cells Into Nerve Cells
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Italian Scientists Unveil Thought-Controlled Robotic Hand
Very Interesting , A Robotic Hand ,controlled with your mind ,And you can also Feel ?
Amazing stuff ahead .
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ROME — A group of European scientists say they have successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand and control it with his thoughts.
The experiment lasted a month. Scientists say it was the first time an amputee has been able to make complex movements using his mind to control a biomechanic hand connected to his nervous system.
The Italian-led team said at a news conference Wednesday in Rome that last year they implanted electrodes into the arm of the patient, who had lost his left hand and forearm in a car accident.
The electrodes were removed after a month, during which the man learned to wiggle the robotic fingers and make other movements.
And then there was this !
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
US Air Force says decision-making attack drones will be here by 2047
Another step closer to world of terminator.
Friday, February 6, 2009
One step closer to real life Terminators
A machine that is able to copy itself. Hook this thing up to the internet and it won't be long before Skynet gains consciousness and attacks us with our own nukes. Science DailyScienceDaily (June 6, 2008) — A University of Bath academic, who oversees a global effort to develop an open-source machine that ‘prints’ three-dimensional objects, is celebrating after the prototype machine succeeded in making a set of its own printed parts. The machine, named RepRap, will be exhibited publicly at the Cheltenham Science Festival (4-8 June 2008).[...]
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RepRap is short for replicating rapid-prototyper; it employs a technique called ‘additive fabrication’. The machine works a bit like a printer, but, rather than squirting ink onto paper, it puts down thin layers of molten plastic which solidify. These layers are built up to make useful 3D objects.
RepRap has, so far, been capable of making everyday plastic goods such as door handles, sandals and coat hooks. Now, the machine has also succeeded in copying all its own 3D-printed parts.
