West-Nile virus and more… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/13/deadly-viruses-beautiful-photos_n_4545309.html
“From the living cell, this process creates hardened silica structures that look the same as the previously living cell, but can survive greater pressures and temperatures than flesh ever could, and can perform some functions better than when they were alive.” http://energy.gov/articles/zombie-replicants-outperform-living (fr) http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2014/01/14/-photos-virus-mortels_n_4593269.html?utm_hp_ref=fr-science
Officials having repartee !… “Late last year, CSCC made a move into English-language websites, with the small team of analysts and microbloggers expanding their fight on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and elsewhere, under the banner of the US State Department. @ThinkAgain_DOS is just one of their tools in this digital-outreach turf war. (CSCC has used the …
Math + Meteorology = Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie ENM (http://www.enm.meteo.fr/) –the school I considered along with ENSIMAG + Biodefense –the stuffs I research = fascinating! (http://globalbiodefense.com/2014/03/04/cbrne-external-meteorological-modeling-system/) because yeah… (illustrations from Dr. Zilinskas’ CBW course)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/george-church-explains-how-dna-will-be-construction-material-of-the-future-a-877634.html Bioethics: “The major issue with creating new life forms is determining the moral status of such entities and what is in their interests. Ethically, we should not create new life forms only to inflict suffering on them.” http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/01/back-to-the-future-the-ethics-of-cloning-neanderthals-and-creating-genetically-modified-animals/
Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking — you can do it, too TED talk 2012
The project Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting without Electricity Now order: Glowing Plant seeds $50 A pack of 50-100 fertile seeds of Glowing Plant Arabidopsis. Use the plants as a nightlight or show them off to your friends. The seeds are expected to ship in September 2014 or Maker Kit $300 The maker kit includes the …
Let’s start with the basic review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt Browse Eduardo Kac’s thought–provoking projects at http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html With the famous Alba, the fluorescent bunny. http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html And Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. http://www.ekac.org/nat.hist.enig.html Making people think about synthetic biology, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg …
TED: Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research “Believe it or not, about 20 years’ worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can’t get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he …
Probably the coolest wikipedia article (a great source of inspiration): List of emerging technologies — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies