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Researchers Reprogram Pancreas Cells to Produce Insulin
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1255 days ago
The Short: The Harvard Crimson and the LA Times offer some of the better articles reporting that researchers have genetically [...]
The Singularity Summit 2008
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1256 days ago
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) has just released details and opened up registration for its Singularity Summit 2008 [...]
Researchers Grow an Entire Rat Heart, Pig Heart Next Target
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1262 days ago
The Short: In January 2008 University of Minnesota Researchers reported that they were able to grow an entire rat heart [...]
Singularity Hub Reviews Intel CTO Justin Rattner’s IDF Keynote on the Future of Technology
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1263 days ago
Yesterday Intel CTO Justin Rattner delivered his keynote presentation about the future of technology and the coming of the singularity [...]
Researchers Produce Red Blood Cells From Stem Cells
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1265 days ago
The Short: News outlets are reporting that researchers from Advanced Cell Technology, Inc have been able to differentiate human embryonic [...]
Tengion – The Company That Will Grow You a Custom Organ
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1268 days ago
Earlier we reported here at the hub that growing tissue and organs is not a science fiction story about the [...]
Researchers Stop Decline In Organ Function Associated With Old Age
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1269 days ago
As humans age the systems in our cells for cleaning up unwanted proteins and other debris become less efficient. It [...]
Monkey Controls Robotic Arm Using Brain-machine Interface
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1271 days ago
In May the New York Times and many other outlets reported on the “most striking demonstration to date of brain-machine [...]
Robots Controlled by Rat Brains
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1272 days ago
New Scientist released an awesome article describing how researchers are using rat brains to control a robot. Approximately 300,000 neurons [...]
Alloderm Allows you to Grow New Skin
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1274 days ago
The Short: Lifecell is a company that offers a suite of tissue regeneration technologies that have been used for more [...]