Scientists figured out how maggots of black soldier flies can eat so much, so fast:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/study-black-soldier-fly-maggots-form-fountains-to-feed-more-quickly/ #FFHCI #Regenerative #Biology
Scientists figured out how maggots of black soldier flies can eat so much, so fast:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/study-black-soldier-fly-maggots-form-fountains-to-feed-more-quickly/ #FFHCI #Regenerative #Biology
Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613277/chinese-scientists-have-put-human-brain-genes-in-monkeysand-yes-they-may-be-smarter/ #Biology #NeuroScience
"China's Selling Genetically-Modified Mice for $17,000 a Pair": #ALife #Biology
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/china-s-demand-for-17-000-gene-altered-lab-mice-is-skyrocketing "Mouse-model market predicted to top $1.59 billion by 2022"
As @Meseberg explored on his recent trips to china and explained to me, with the "Internet+" and "Internet of Life" strategies, the Chinese are aiming to build new hybrid markets that deeply integrate digital (networks etc.) and analog (bio-tech etc.) at large scale.
"Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again": https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613158/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data/
#FFHCI #Biology #Technology
"Fish are able to recognize themselves in the mirror":
https://nypost.com/2019/02/08/fish-are-able-to-recognize-themselves-in-the-mirror/
"If a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and self-awareness testing in animals?" https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000021 #FFHCI #Biology
Patent of the day - by Sony: "Scanning method for applying ultrasonic acoustic data to the human neural cortex": https://patents.google.com/patent/US7350522 #BCI #Biology #SE
Modification of the conditioned emotional response in animals living in a 60-Hz electrical field: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03333883.pdf #BCI #Biology #SE
Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse: https://aeon.co/videos/watch-a-single-cell-become-a-complete-organism-in-six-pulsing-minutes-of-timelapse #Biology #ALife
I must admit, i have reoccurring dreams of starting a giant automated insect farm, that uses robotics & machine learning to end-to-end optimise their life-cycle...
https://www.fastcompany.com/40454212/this-automated-cricket-farm-is-designed-to-make-bugs-a-mainstream-source-of-protein #Ideas #ML #Robot #Biology
"Scientists now understand that the information in the DNA code can only serve as a template for a protein. It cannot possibly serve as instructions for the more complex task of putting the proteins together into a fully functioning being"
http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it #Biology
BioSoNot - by Gilberto Esparza: http://gilbertoesparza.net/portfolio/biosonot/ http://interactions.acm.org/enter/view/biosonot "a musical synthesizer that allows humans to hear electrical oscillations of bacteria in microbial fuel cells as they clean contaminated water". #ALife #Biology
"Moore’s Law Is About to Get Weird - Never mind tablet computers. Wait till you see bubbles and slime mold" - by Gabriel Popkin: http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/moores-law-is-about-to-get-weird #ALife #Biology
"Art and Agency in Times of Wetware" - by Jens Hauser: https://www.pca-stream.com/en/articles/jens-hauser-art-agency-in-times-of-wetware-107 #Biology #ALife
"Method and system for determination of physiological conditions and emotional states of a living organism": https://patents.google.com/patent/US8311616 #Biology #SE
"Maxwell’s demon & the hunt for alien life - Timo Hannay explores a study of life that takes up where Erwin Schrödinger left off": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00215-9 #Biology
"Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs": #Biology #ML https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/83106/intellectual-property-patent/
"Researchers Created Artificial Cells That Can Communicate With Each Other":
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-artificially-cells.html #ALife #Biology
Cities, biodiversity and health: we need healthy urban microbiome initiatives: http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23748834.2018.1546641?journalCode=rcah20 #Regenerative #Science #Biology
The History of Cloning - by Information is Beautiful. #Biology