Article on Wired “In Tomorrow’s Wars, Battles Will Be Fought With a 3-D Printer” http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/military-3d-printers/ Most interesting is that it could change how we think of supply chain.
Really good resource on the History of Bioterrorism http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/preparedness/bt_public_history.shtm Extremely complete on 1900 to 2000: W. S. Carus, Bioterrorism and Biocrimes The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900, vol. 1998, no. February. 2001.
Interesting podcast about ‘writing life’, what to make and the implications. GO LISTEN >> https://soundcloud.com/royal-institution/life-is-what-you-make-it
Probably the coolest wikipedia article (a great source of inspiration): List of emerging technologies — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
here: http://www.design.philips.com/philips/sites/philipsdesign/about/design/designportfolio/design_futures/bio_light.page
Biosecurity for the Age of Redesigned Life (Science Friday) Forget dissecting frogs and building potato batteries. High school students today are learning genetic engineering–and some are even redesigning life. Bioethicists and the FBI have taken note and are rethinking biosecurity for the synthetic biology revolution. GO LISTEN! http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/11/08/2013/biosecurity-for-the-age-of-redesigned-life.html
[google-translator] Lordon et le capitalisme “waoow”, d@ns le texte Ou : le néo-libéralisme expliqué par l’angle alpha Video: http://www.arretsurimages.net/emissions/2010-09-30/Lordon-et-le-capitalisme-waoow-d-ns-le-texte-id3405 (fr) “Les hommes se trompent en ce qu’ils se croient libres, cette opinion consiste en cela seul qu’ils sont conscients de leurs désirs, et ignorants des causes qui les déterminent.” -Spinoza (A voir ici (fr) >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY8TH9ceyI0 …
Authors Mandy L Wilson, Sakiko Okumoto, Laura Adam, Jean Peccoud Publication date 2013/11/8 Journal Bioinformatics Volume30 Issue2 Pages 251-257 Abstract Motivation: Expression vectors used in different biotechnology applications are designed with domain-specific rules. For instance, promoters, origins of replication or homologous recombination sites are host-specific. Similarly, chromosomal integration or viral delivery of an expression cassette imposes specific …
An excellent article by Ronald K. Noble http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140157/ronald-k-noble/keeping-science-in-the-right-hands