We are quite close in creating the first "protocell". Protocell refers to an artificially synthesised cell which has bare minimums. The basic motivation behind creating artificial living systems is that the people who are doing this believe that what w...
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What is your most dangerous idea?
The most fascinating online magazine EDGE has released the new year edition. It poses the grand question "What is your most dangerous idea?" to 199 people all of whom world's great scientists. Last year it posed an equally thought provoking question o...
The M-Prize
The Methuselah Mouse Prize is the premiere effort of The Methuselah Foundationâ„¢; a scientific competition designed to draw attention to the ability of new technologies to slow and even reverse the damage of the aging process, preserving health and ...
How to increase lifespan indefinitely…
I have just read on the internet that the basic reason why we die in say 80-85 years is because of evolution. Yes, our bodies have just been designed to reproduce the genes to the next generation.... I have just read on the internet that the basic reas...
Biocomputing – Computers marry Biology
Check out this great AI newsletter. It has a collection of articles on biocomputing. It is a great read. It has posts on the topics such as: From Etch a Sketch to Bact a Sketch at iGEM, E. Coli edge detectors, Silicomimetic Noughts and Crosses in DNA, Ge...
Bio-Intelligence: Creating chess playing bacteria
Here is my proposal to create rather evolve bio-intelligence.
Evolution of Bio-intelligence ----------------------------------------
My proposal is to use bacteria as a form of crude neural networks.. such as to play a game of tic-tac-to...
Two more resources on synthetic biology
1. [URL=http://www.squidoo.com/syntheticbiology/]A Squidoo lens[/URL] on Synthetic Biology 2. [URL=http://www.harmantechnologies.com/wordpress/]Another Blog[/URL] on Synthetic Biology ...
An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology
An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life
A paper discussing aspects of artificial life. [URL=http://www.his.atr.jp/~ray/pubs/zen/index.html]Click here[/URL] to access it. ...
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Metaevolution: Evolution of Evolution
I've uploaded an article on Metaevolution on my site. Metaevolution is evolution of evolution. Check it out at: [URL]http://www.paraschopra.com/articles/metaevolution/index.php[/URL] ...